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.
