My essay (ita) on historical contingency and cartography through the lens of Pietro Ruffo’s art, written for the catalogue of Il tempo della scrittura – on view in Modena until next February (www.lagalleriabper.it/-/mostre-ed-...)

Time feels ripe when you see MGMT’s Little Dark Age used (without consent) to promote joining ICE

Luc Steels at Ca' Foscari in a few hours to talk about AI and synthetic art (www.unive.it/data/agenda/...)

I don’t always like things hung on walls, and I don’t think art must necessarily be a tool of protest and/or reassurance. However, the issue of freedom of expression – whether explicit or not – is something one can sense, and it’s the art system that should be the first to practice self-critique

An idea for future research, and to challenge the stereotype that academics aren’t into sports: early computational systems in Serie A

Magazén – International Journal for Digital and Public Humanities is now Q1 in SCOPUS for Literature & Literary Theory and has been ranked Classe A by ANVUR in Art History & Museology. More details in the intro of issue 6.1 (2025): doi.org/10.30687/mag...

Opening this week in Modena, Il tempo della scrittura (Galleria BPER, curated by Stefania De Vincentis) explores visual writing and knowledge from Renaissance works to Sabrina Mezzaqui and Pietro Ruffo. I contribute to the catalogue with a short essay on Ruffo, cartography and counter-Enlightenment

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How badly have the post-work consensus and the 'demand full automation' slogan of the past decade aged

My book (in Italian) on early locative media creative practices, titled "Estetiche della geolocalizzazione. Pratiche artistiche e media locativi", is now available in open access through Sapienza University Press - wich recently awarded me and made all of this possible editricesapienza.it/book/10488