artscience curator / science communicator

PRACTICE

My work developed from a scientific background and gradually moved towards the use of artistic and audiovisual languages as tools for science communication. Rather than treating art as a means of illustrating scientific results, I am interested in processes in which artistic and scientific practices can influence one another.

This approach often begins with a specific environment, scientific question or research context. I bring together artists, researchers, institutions and communities, designing situations in which different forms of knowledge can coexist and interact: fieldwork, scientific observation, artistic experimentation, data, sound, moving images and participatory practices.

The resulting projects can take the form of exhibitions, installations, audiovisual works, artist residencies, workshops or public programmes. What connects them is an attempt to make scientific research not only accessible, but also something that can be experienced, questioned and interpreted from perspectives that conventional science communication does not always make possible.

The forth space

I describe this collaborative condition as the Fourth Space: a space where art, science and society do not simply meet, but can influence and transform one another.

The Fourth Space is not a new discipline, nor a neutral territory between existing ones. It is a generative condition created through collaboration, where different methods, languages and ways of knowing coexist. Feedback loops between artistic and scientific practices can produce unexpected connections, new questions and, sometimes, new directions for research.

Serendipity plays an important role in this process. Rather than defining every outcome in advance, I am interested in creating the conditions in which unplanned encounters and lateral thinking can emerge—while maintaining a meaningful relationship with the scientific research at the centre of the project.

A fundamental aspect of the Fourth Space is what happens to the knowledge generated through these encounters. Its outcomes can become interfaces between scientific research and society: installations, images, sounds, narratives and experiences through which complex scientific questions can be encountered outside their conventional contexts.

In this sense, science communication is not the final stage of the process. It is embedded within the collaboration itself, transforming the encounter between art and science into a way of opening scientific research to interpretation, dialogue and participation.

Facilitating ART+SCIENCE

My role in artscience projects often lies in facilitating the relationship between artists and scientists. These collaborations bring together people who may approach the same subject through very different methods, languages, expectations and ways of producing knowledge.

I design and facilitate situations in which these differences can become productive. This may involve identifying common research questions, connecting artists with scientists and research infrastructures, organising fieldwork and residencies, or creating informal moments in which conversations can develop beyond predefined disciplinary roles.

Facilitation also means being able to move between different languages: understanding the methods and constraints of scientific research while preserving the lateral thinking, experimentation and speculative freedom that artistic practice can introduce. The aim is not to make one discipline serve the other, but to establish conditions in which both can retain their specificity while contributing to a shared process.

When working with emerging artists, researchers and curators, this role can also extend to mentoring: helping participants navigate interdisciplinary collaboration, develop their research questions and translate an initial encounter with a scientific context into an artistic process.

Science Communication

I approach science communication not simply as the transmission or simplification of scientific information, but as the design of experiences through which people can encounter scientific research.

Artistic languages can make this encounter possible in ways that conventional forms of communication cannot always achieve. Moving images, sound, installations, interactive environments, speculative narratives and participatory practices can create different points of access to complex scientific questions, allowing audiences to engage with them through perception, curiosity and interpretation.

This does not mean replacing scientific accuracy with artistic freedom. Instead, I am interested in finding forms that remain connected to the research while opening space for ambiguity, imagination and critical reflection. Scientific data, instruments, field observations and research processes can become materials for an experience without being reduced to illustration.

Much of my work therefore focuses on environmental and technological questions that are difficult to perceive directly: ecological transformations unfolding across different temporal and spatial scales, environments beyond human sensory limits, or processes that are normally accessible only through scientific instruments and data.

In this context, science communication becomes a way of creating relationships between research, experience and public participation—not only explaining what science knows, but creating situations in which people can encounter how knowledge is produced, what remains uncertain, and why these questions matter.

SELECTED CURATORIAL PROJECTS

SCAPES_ — Echoes from more than human worlds
Wetland Designers
RISORGIVA — Ecosistemi in estinzione
Pixxelpoint 2025 – Ecoc Gorizia/Nova Gorica
CARSOPUNK
Cenere Memorie

SELECTED COLLABORATIONS

SISSA — International School for Advanced Studies
OGS — National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics
INGV — National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology
European Commission — JRC SciArt
European Journalism Fund
FADA collective
University of Nova Gorica
IUAV University of Venice
Immaginario Scientifico
Area Science Park
CMCC — Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change
PiNA
Shoreline
FACTA.eu