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Eleonora Roaro is a visual artist and researcher born in Varese (IT) in 1989. She lives and works in Milano (IT).

Playing videogames before The Millenium Bug

Playing videogames before The Millenium Bug

EDUCATION
MA | Plymouth University | Contemporary Art Practice | Plymouth (UK) [erasmus]
MA | NABA | Visual Arts and Curatorial Studies | Milano (IT)
BA | IED | Photography | Milano (IT)

AWARDS,  FELLOWSHIPS & GRANTS
2023 | Futures Photography | CAMERA, Torino (IT)
2022 | Premio Francesco Fabbri – sezione arte emergente | Pieve di Soligo (IT) (shortlisted)
2020 | Cantica21 (under 35) | MAECI and MiBACT grant
2020-22 | MISTI – MIT-Friuli Venezia Giulia (FVG) Global Seed Fund | Sensing Dolce Vita: An Experiment in VR Storytelling | M.I.T., Boston (US)
2020 | Scholarship | Fondazione Pini, Milano (IT)
2019 | Research Fellowship | VR and AR in the valorization of cultural and art heritage | Università degli Studi di Udine (IT)
2017 | The Gifer. International GIF Art Festival (winner – IED AWARD)
2017 | Celeste Prize (shortlisted)
2017 | Combat Prize (recommended artists)
2016 | ArTeam Cup (shortlisted)

SOLO SHOWS
2022 | Scenografie coloniali. FIAT 633NM di Eleonora Roaro | curated by Enrico Manera, Roberto Mastroianni and Chiara Miranda | Museo Diffuso della Resistenza, Torino (IT)
2021 | FIAT 633NM | curated by Cinzia Compalati | CAMeC, La Spezia (IT)
2021 | Through the Looking Glass – Tulipomania | Luisa Catucci Gallery, Berlin (DE)
2018 | Schrödinger’s Cat Goes Through a Trauma and Does Not | curated by Matteo Cremonesi | Link Art Centre, online (IT)
2018 | Hit Me With A Flower | Over The Trash project room, Milano (IT)
2017 | Loops | Luisa Catucci Gallery, Berlin (DE)
2017 | 00:00:01:00 | Plymouth University, Plymouth (UK)
2014 | Instabilità, equilibrio ed infinito. Forma, ripetizione, differenza e movimento | curated by Roberto Mastroianni | Studio Dieci, Vercelli (IT)

COLLECTIVE SHOWS
2023 | Save the Food – Premio Irinox | curated by Claudio Composti | Laboratorio Aperto del Complesso di San Paolo, Parma (IT)
2023 | Surfing on the Algorithms | SMDOT/Contemporary Art, Udine (IT)
2022 | Premio Francesco Fabbri – sezione arte emergente | curated by Carlo Sala | Villa Brandolini, Pieve di Soligo (IT)
2022 | IN – FINITO | in collaboration with Recontemporary| Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Madrid (ES)
2022 | T.O.T. Themes of Traces | curated by Andrea Zanetti | Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Carrara, Carrara (IT)
2022 | Visioni (s)velate | curated by Elena Brai | Viafarini, Milano (IT)
2021 | I luoghi che siamo | Casa degli Artisti, Milano (IT)
2021 | Festina Stonata | luogo_e, Bergamo (IT)
2021 | Etherea Art Prize | Etherea Art Gallery, Genova (IT)
2021 | Art’s Birthday 2021: Maschinenlärm und Metamorphosen | E-werk, Freiburg (DE)
2020 | Stoner. Landing Pages | curated by Cinzia Compalati and Andrea Zanetti | MuDEV, Palazzo Pretorio, Certaldo (IT)
2020 | View from the window | Poznań Art Week, online (PL)
2020 | SUPERCALL |  in collaboration with Casa Testori | Studio 4×4, Pietrasanta (IT)
2019 | 32th Festival Les Instants Vidéo | Hôtel le Ryad, Marseille (FR)
2019 | Small Home Great Projects | La Triennale, Milano (IT)
2019 | States of Mind | Palazzo Valmarana Braga, Vicenza (IT)
2018 | J.O.B.S. | curated by Andrea Zanetti | Palazzo Podestarile, Montelupo Fiorentino (IT)
2018 | Media Arts @ Plymouth University | Doppio Orizzonte, with Rachael Allain | Plymouth Art Weekender, Plymouth (UK)
2018 | Archivio Fotografico Italiano (mostra annuale delle acquisizioni) | Musinf, Senigallia (IT)
2018 | Repeat&Shuffle | Casa dello Zecchiere, Milano (IT)
2018 | R3M3MB3R | Riccardo Costantini Contemporary, Torino (IT)
2017 | Celeste Prize 2017 | OXO Tower Wharf, London (UK)
2017 | Il tempo indeciso | CURRENT project, Milano (IT)
2016 | Stoner. Landing Pages |curated by Cinzia Compalati and Andrea Zanetti  | Alviani ArtSpace, Pescara (IT)
2016 | Normali Meraviglie – La Mano | La Triennale, Milano (IT)
2016 | Art Team Cup 2016 | Palazzo del Monferrato, Alessandria (IT)
2016 | F/10 | Castello dei Paleologi, Casale Monferrato (IT)
2015 | 28th Festival Les Instants Vidéo | Friche La Belle De Mai, Marseille (FR)
2015 | No Food’s Land – Mediterranea 17 Young Artists Biennale | Fabbrica del Vapore, Milano (IT)
2013 | Il corpo solitario. Self portrait – photography & video | curated by Giorgio Bonomi | Riccardo Costantini Contemporary, Torino (IT)
2011 | Biennale di video-fotografia di Alessandria. “Regarde Moi” |  curated by Occhiomagico | Ex cittadella, Alessandria (IT)

VIDEO SCREENINGS & FESTIVALS
2022 | Club Zero – Quartiere Corvetto | La Triennale, Milano (IT)
2021 | About the Future | Fondazione Molise Cultura, Campobasso (IT)
2020 | Stories of Solitude | artburst berlin e.V., Berlin (DE)
2020 | Video Art Miden | online (GR)
2019 | Camouflage | Non riservato, Milano (IT)
2019 | Plymouth Art Weekender | Plymouth Arts Cinema, Plymouth (UK)
2019 | INTERCAMBIOS – muestra internacional de videoarte | Zpadores Museum, Madrid (ES)
2019 | Video del giorno | curated by Giorgio De Finis | Macro – Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Roma, Roma (IT)
2019 | Performance Crossing 2019 | Cross Attic, Prague (CZ)
2019 | Over the Real | Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Lucca (IT)
2019 | Videolands | screening curated by Video Art Miden | MOMus-State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki (GR)
2019 | FRESH!!! | [.BOX] Video-Art Project Space, Milano (IT)
2019 | VIDEOFORMES 2019 Festival International d’Arts Numériques | Maison de la Culture, Clermont-Ferrand (FR)
2018 | Generazione Critica #6 | with METRONOM and Fondazione Modena Arti Visive – Fondazione Fotografia | Laboratorio Aperto, Modena (IT)
2018 | Moving Stills | IkonoTV, online
2018 | Video Art Miden | FokiaNou Art Space, Athens (GR)
2018 | 10# FlashForward | [.BOX] Video-Art Project Space, Milano (IT)
2018 | Short. Ca’ Foscari Short Film Festival. “Lo sguardo sospeso” | Ca’ Foscari, Venezia (IT)
2017 | STRANGLOSCOPE Experimental Video/Film, Audio, Performance International Festival | Florianopolis (BR)
2017 | The Gifer. International GIF Art Festival | Galleria Sabauda, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Museo Nazionale del Cinema, Torino (IT)
2017 | Leap Second Festival | Institut français du Danemark, Copenhagen (DK)
2017 | Leap Second Festival | iMAL (Interactive Media Art Laboratory), Brussels (BE)
2017 | Amural Visual Festival | Turnul Alb, Brașov (RO)
2017 | Mr. Mov | produced by Santa Giulia Hdemia di Belle Arti | Castello di Brescia, Brescia (IT)
2017 | IN|DUST|REAL Video Art Event VIIIth Edition | The Museum of Ţării Crişurilor, Oradea (RO)
2016 | INTERCAMBIOS – muestra internacional de videoarte | Pereira (CO)
2016 | INTERCAMBIOS – muestra internacional de videoarte | Quito (EC)
2016 | FILE 2016 – Electronic Language International Festival, “FILE GIF 2016” | Fiesp Cultural Center – Ruth Cardoso, Sao Paulo (BR)
2015 | Miami New Media Festival | Wynwood, Miami (US)

RESIDENCIES
2022 | VIR Viafarini-in-residence | Viafarini, Milano (IT)
2020 | (Let’s) Work! | Casa degli artisti, Milano (IT)
2019 | UNIDEE – Rituals of the Contemporary | with Fondazione Pistoletto, Fondazione Zegna and Fiamma Montezemolo | Cittadellarte, Biella; Oasi Zegna, Trivero (IT)

SPECIAL PROJECTS
2020 | Drowning by Numbers | YouTube live stream performance | CAMeC, La Spezia (IT)
2019 | Gammatalk & Spot Show: eyEternity launch + late us Live show | Spazio Gamma, Milano (IT)
2019 | L.U.X. | with Samantha Stella and Matteo Levaggi | Teatro Giuseppe Verdi, Padova (IT)
2017 | La Luna è una lampadina. 50 anni IED. “The Dark Side of the Moon” | curated by Tiziana Gemin | La Triennale, Milano (IT)
2016 | Forever Yours. The Wedding | Galleria Menhir, Milano (IT)
2016 | Muybridge recall. Tra scienza e arte | Galleria Gruppo Credito Valtellinese, Milano (IT)
2016 | Color Inside – Fuori salone 2016 | Studio Andrea Castrignano, Milano (IT)

ART FAIRS
2023 | MIA Photo Fair | Premio IRINOX | curated by Claudio Composti | Superstudio Maxi, Milano (IT)
2020 | REA! | Fabbrica del Vapore, Milano (IT)
2018 | MIA Photo Fair | Riccardo Costantini Contemporary | The Mall, Milano (IT)
2017 | MIA Photo Fair | Riccardo Costantini Contemporary | The Mall, Milano (IT)
2015 | Arte Fiera | Riccardo Costantini Contemporary | Bologna (IT)
2014 | MIA Photo Fair | Sabrina Raffaghello Arte Contemporanea | Superstudio, Milano (IT)
2013 | Off | Riccardo Costantini Contemporary | Tour & Taxis, Brussels (BE)
2013 | Arte Fiera | Riccardo Costantini Contemporary | Bologna (IT)
2012 | Cutlog | Riccardo Costantini Contemporary | Bourse du Commerce, Paris (FR)
2012 | Fotofever | Riccardo Costantini Contemporary | Tour & Taxis, Brussels (BE)

LECTURESHIPS
2023 – ongoing | Sociology of New Media | NABA, Milano (IT)
2022 –ongoing | Modern Art History | NABA, Milano (IT)
2022 – ongoing | New Media Aesthetics | NABA, Milano (IT)
2017 | Tecniche ed applicazioni fotografiche: post-produzione fotografica | ACME, Novara (IT)

CONFERENCES 

2023.07.07 | HoMER 2023 |  TecnoCampus, Mataró (ES)
2023.01.19 | AN-ICON | Sensing Cinema Heritage. For a Multisensory Approach to Film Heritage | Università Statale di Milano, Milano (IT)
2022.10.14 | Marathon DH – Cinema, Media, Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage | Università degli Studi di Udine, Udine (IT)
2022.07.05 | HoMER 2022 | Università La Sapienza, Roma (IT)
2022.06.27 | Film Exhibition: The Italian Context | University of Cambridge, Cambridge (UK)
2022.04.07 | From Cinema Culture to Cinema Memory | Lancaster University, Lancaster (UK)
2021.09.07 | Visualising Digital Humanities (Studiotec workshop) | University of Bristol, University of Southampton and Queen Mary (UK)
2021.05.25 | HoMER 2021 | Maynooth University, Maynooth (IE)
2019.11.22 | Mining Memories: New Explorations in Cinema, Memory and the Past | University College Cork, Cork (IE)
2019.10.29 | Cinema and other Arts | Universidade da Beira Interior, Covilha (PT)
2019.09.27 | 7a Summer School di Filosofia e Teoria Critica: La rivoluzione urbana e la modernità | Polo Universitario di Gorizia, Gorizia (IT)
2019.09.15 | IX Congresso AISU “La città globale” | Session curated by Roy Menarini | Scuola di Ingegneria e Architettura, Bologna (IT)
2019.06.28 | HoMER 2019 | The University of the Bahamas, Nassau (BS)
2019.05.23 | Le sale cinematografiche milanesi: storia, evoluzione e attualità | Politecnico di Milano – DAStU, Milano (IT)
2018.05.17 | Sale cinematografiche e luoghi del cinema a Milano: ricerche e prospettive | Politecnico di Milano – Scuola di Architettura Urbanistica Ingegneria Costruzioni, Milano (IT)
2017.11.21 | L’arte della luce e dell’ombra. Note sull’archeologia del cinema | Politecnico di Milano – Scuola di Design, Milano (IT)
2014.07.03 | Convegno inusuale, exhibition  Abiti da Lavoro | La Triennale, Milano (IT)

COLLABORATIONS
2021 | Katy Richardson for “A Cake of Painted Tin” | KIND., Braunton (UK)
2020 | Jann Haworth for “Utah Women’s Mural” | Salt Lake City (US)
2020 | Nina Carini for “For 24 Hours Call Me Poet” | Casa degli Artisti and Casa Testori, Milano (IT)

COLLECTIONS
Casa degli Artisti, Milano (IT)
Centro Arte Moderna e Contemporanea – CAMeC, La Spezia (IT)
Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Carrara, Carrara (IT)
Museo di Arte Moderna, dell’Informazione e della Fotografia – musinf, Senigallia (IT)