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| EDUCATION | |
Birkbeck College, University of London - PhD in History of Art (expected date Autumn 2009) Thesis' title: Art, Technology and Politics at the Venice Biennale, 1966-1986 Supervisor: Dr. Charlie Gere -MA in Digital Art History Thesis' title: Issues in Virtual Museums Supervisor: Dr. Charlie Gere Università Ca' Foscari di Venezia, Italy - 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 |
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| MEMBERSHIP OF PROFESSIONAL AND LEARNED SOCIETIES | |
| Member of the Editorial Board of Computers and the History of Art (CHArt), 2005-present Member of the Computer Art Society (CAS), 2008-present Member of the Association of Art Historians (AAH), 2008-present Member of the Courtauld Association, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London, 2006-present |
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| WORK HISTORY | |
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School of History of Art, Film & Visual Media, Birkbeck College, University of London -Research Fellow on the AHRC funded project Computer Art & Technocultures (CAT) at Birkbeck College and the Victoria and Albert Museum (May 2009-present) - Lecturer for the BA History of Art (2007-present) Lectures on the critical approaches of the history of art based on Barthes’ Rethoric of the Image and Foucault’s This Is Not a Pipe - Web Master (2008) Responsible for updating the School’s website, working on WebCT. Planning improvements of the current website and migration to the new website using Blackboard. Computers and the History of Art - CHArt (www.chart.ac.uk) - Conference Organiser – CHArt 2008 24th Annual Conference: Seeing…Vision and Perception in a Digital Culture, 6-7 November 2008, Birkbeck, University of London, Clore Lecture Theatre, Clore Management Centre, Torrington Square, London, WC1 7HX - Conference Organiser – CHArt 2007 23rd Annual Conference: Digital Archive Fever, 8-9 November 2007, Birkbeck, University of London, Basement Lecture Theatre, 43 Gordon Square, London, WC1 7HX Courtauld Institute of Art, London - Web Master and Database Manager for Public Monuments & Sculpture Association (www.pmsa.org.uk), 2005-present |
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| PROFESSIONAL TRAINING | |
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Birkbeck College, University of London, 2005 - Fundamentals of Teaching Programme. Birkbeck’s specially designed course for teaching to postgraduates Tate Modern, London, 2004 - 10 week course on the role of the gallery in the digital age and curating new media Peggy Guggenheim Museum, Venice, Italy, 1999 - Course and workshop in contemporary art and museology |
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| INTERESTS and ACTIVITIES | |
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- Argentine Tango - Friend of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London (2006-) - Member of the Cambridge Drawing Society [established in 1882], Cambridge (2005-) |
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| © 2008 Francesca Franco • E-Mail: fra[at]francescafranco[dot]net | |