About me
I am a researcher in the fields of media studies and on the relationships among art, science, technology and culture. I have been professor at the universities of Rome “La Sapienza”, Bologna, Florence, SUPSI – Lugano, Urbino, Udine, and at the fine arts academies of Carrara, NABA Milan, Quasar Rome, Urbino, L'Aquila and Reggio Calabria. Currently I am a professor and Coordinator of the Scientific-Cultural activities at LABA Rimini. Since 2007 I have been working as a supervisor in the T-Node PhD Research Program of the Planetary Collegium (University of Plymouth), and from 2013 to 2018 I have been appointed as Director of Studies. I am a member of AICA (Association Internationale des Critiques d’Art/International Association of Art Critics), and a member of the Scientific Committee of the Italian branch..
I have internationally published more than 400 texts, essays and papers in books, magazines and conference proceedings. I have organized exhibitions, symposia, managed projects and participated to conferences worldwide.
I have published the books "Realtà del virtuale" (Reality of the virtual, 1993; 2015), on virtual technologies and the relationships between culture and sensorial representations; "Il corpo tecnologico" (The technological body, 1994), on the impact of technologies on the human body; "Arte e tecnologie" (Art and technologies, 1996; 2013), about arts, sciences and technologies; "art*science. The New and History" (2018), on the relationship between innovation and history; "Arte e complessità" (Art and complexity, 2018); "Dialogues across the seas: the ocean that keeps us apart also joins us. Charting knowledge and practice in the Anthropocene" (2022, in English, translated into Italian in 2023). I have published more than 400 texts in books, magazines and conference papers.
In 1994 I founded and directed "NetMagazine", later "MagNet", a research project on the relationships between culture and technologies, the first online magazine in Italy. In March 2000 I founded "Noema" (https://noemalab.eu), on the relationships between technologies, sciences, culture and society, oI am the president and main editor of, selected in 2003 by RAI International as the best Italian website.
In 2017 I founded "art*science" (https://artscience.online), a series of events on critical aspects of the contemporary, which in 2018 has launched a research project on art and the climate crisis. Since 2018 I have been a consultant of the European Commission on the relationships between scientific disciplines, technologies (in particular Artificial Intelligence and Big Data) and humanities.
I am a journalist, member of the Italian Journalist Association since 1998.
Noto da tempo che molte persone che visitano questo sito sono interessate alla pagina del curriculum completo, pubblicato sia in italiano che inglese, che non era aggiornato da diversi mesi. Ho finalmente trovato il tempo di fare gli aggiornamenti, sia del mio curriculum e che delle attività di Noema, dunque enjoy!
I have noticed that many people who are visiting this site are interested in the page of my complete bio, which is published both in English and Italian, that was not updated in several months. I have finally found the time to make the updates, both in my bio and in Noema‘s activities, so enjoy!
