About me
I was born in 1977 in the countryside near Turin (Italy), at the foot of the Alps.Having completed my secondary education in mathematics, physics and computer science in the mid-1990s, I realized that my passion for contemporary art required a philosophicaland artistic foundation, so I went on to study literature and the arts at the University of Turin.
I then had the opportunity to study for a semester at the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona under Professor Teresa Camps Miró, and under her guidance I specialized in the history of performance art.
I then studied sociology and conducted independent research into the contemporary art market with Francesco Poli.
Through my collaboration with David Boardman, I became involved in the world of net.art, participating in artworks and critical essays. In 2005, in Chile, we created *Memoria Histórica de la Alameda*, an interactive archive that displays georeferenced multimedia content via a mobile device, headphones, a computer, a GPS and a database.Walking along the Alameda in Santiago de Chile, one could journey through its history.
Since 2006, I have been working with filmmaker Andrea Fenoglio, under the auspices of the Fondazione Nuto Revelli ONLUS - http://www.nutorevelli.orgIt is a social research project and a series of audiovisual documentaries on the legacy of the work of the great writer and partisan commander Nuto Revelli.
His work focuses on the stories of the last farmers of the Western Alps, a lost civilization that hardly survived two world wars, waves of emigration, the abandonment of the mountains and the countryside, and finally the mass industrialization of the 1960s.
This was followed by audiovisual documentaries with Andrea Fenoglio, visual and sound installations with Federico Basso, the development of art-related applications, and a long-standing collaboration with the sociologist Pablo Cottet.These national and international projects have occasionally won awards.
In all these projects, I have been in charge of the systematization, organization and interpretation of digital, historical and contemporary archives.My constant interest has always been in understanding how to transform communication devices and networks, using them as vehicles for critical and subversive content.I continue to pursue this artistic, political and philosophical goal.
I am currently working on the digitization, cataloguing and organization of the Nuto Revelli Foundation’s sound archive, which contains over 600 hours of interviews conducted by the writer Nuto Revelli with farmers from the impoverished countryside around Cuneo between 1970 and 1984.
I live in Pinerolo (Torino) with my wife Antonella and my daughter Olivia.
