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  RESEARCH
  School of History of Art, Film & Visual Media, Birkbeck College, University of London
- PhD in History of Art (expected date Spring 2009)
Thesis' title: Art, Technology and Politics at the Venice Biennale, 1966-2001
Supervisor: Dr. Charlie Gere
-MA in Digital Art History

Università Ca' Foscari di Venezia
- Laurea in Conservazione dei Beni Culturali (History of Art)
Thesis' title: Il Seno Denudato: da Simbolo ad Allegoria. Immagini del Femminile tra Rinascimento e Controriforma
Supervisors: Prof. Monica Centanni and Prof. Augusto Gentili
  CONFERENCE PAPERS & PRESENTATIONS
  - ‘Art and Democracy at the Venice Biennale. The Legacy of 1968’. ISEA2008, the International Symposium on Electronic Art, Singapore (July 2008).
- ‘Political Radical Ideals and Commercial Indulgence at the Venice Biennale. The Legacy of 1968’. SocialEast Seminar, Forum on the Art and Visual Culture of Eastern Europe, Jagellonian University, Krakow (April 2008).
- ‘Democratic Space and Urban Intervention. Venice Biennale 1986-1990’ Association of Art Historians (AAH) Annual Conference, Tate Britain and Tate Modern, London (April 2008).
- ‘New Media Art and an Institutional Crisis in the History of the Venice Biennale, 1968’. Poster Presentation. Re:Place 2007, The Second International Conference on the Histories of Media, Arts, Science and Technology, Berlin (November 2007).
- ‘Technology, Art and Politics at the Venice Biennale’. Birkbeck Summer Research Day Forum, Birkbeck College, University of London (June 2007).
- ‘Digital Art History: an Overview’. Long Road Sixth Form College, Cambridge (February 2007).
- ‘Towards Recognition of New Media Art at the Venice Biennale: a Historical Overview’ , Computers and the History of Art (CHArt) Conference (November 2006).
- ‘The Creative Use of Computer Applications Related to Research Interests in Visual Culture’, Birkbeck College, University of London (August 2005).
- ‘What Is Digital Art?’. Fundamental of Teaching Programme, Birkbeck College, University of London (March 2005).

 

 
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