Marialaura Ghidini
Marialaura Ghidini's work often explores the intersections between art, digital technology and society — particularly how technology and the ideas of ‘progress’ and ‘betterment’ tied to it, shape behaviours, relationships between people and with the environment, and the ways knowledge. She is interested not only in how digital tools and platforms shape us, but also in how we shape them.
Since her PhD with CRUMB (University of Sunderland, 2015), she has researched curating on the web and digital curation, focusing on their histories and impact on cultural production, access to culture and audience engagement. She published the archive curating.online (online, 2021-) with the support of the Italian Council - 9th Edition, and The Broken Timeline (Valiz, 2022) conceived with Annet Dekker and Gaia Tedone.
She likes to think of exhibitions as ways of telling stories that unfold across spaces and between people. She has curated them online, in gallery spaces, on a river canal, on mobile phones, on the radio and in print — collaborating with artists, writers, designers, musicians and anthropologists. Her interest in creating spaces for dialogue and exchange has shaped projects such as the curatorial platform or-bits.com (2009-2015), #exstrange (2017, with artist Rebekah Modrak), and the publishing series Silicon Plateau (2015-, with artist Tara Kelton).
She supports practice-based research and research-based work — an approach she also brings into teaching on curating, art & technology, and publishing & archiving, or when she gives talks and organise workshops.
She works as an independent curator, also under the moniker ://ftp with Gaia Tedone. (2025)
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