Eleonora Roaro (Varese, 1989) is a visual artist and researcher based in Milan. She currently lectures in New Media Aesthetics, Multimedia Communication, and Modern Art History at NABA, Milan (BA and MA Media Design and New Technologies), and in Phenomenology of Contemporary Art at IED, Milan (BA Product Design). Since 2025, she has also been a doctoral candidate at Transtechnology Research in the School of Art, Design and Architecture at the University of Plymouth. Her work has been shown since 2011 in many galleries and museums such as La Triennale (Milan), Fabbrica del Vapore (Milan), Casa degli Artisti (Milano), CAMERA (Turin), MACRO (Roma), CAMeC (La Spezia), mudaC (Carrara), E-Werk (Freiburg), Maison de la Culture (Clermont-Ferrand), La Friche (Marseilles), Istituto Italiano di Cultura (Madrid and Prague). As a research fellow at the Università degli Studi di Udine, she contributed to the 2019 project VR and AR in the valorisation of cultural and art heritage. From 2020 to 2024, she was part of the project Sensing Dolce Vita: An Experiment in VR Storytelling, which won the MISTI Global Seed Fund (MIT, Cambridge, MA; SISSA, Trieste). She has also authored articles focusing on cinema architecture and VR reconstruction (L’Avventura, 2020; Alphaville, 2021), film programming in Udine (MHRA, 2024), cinema theatres in visual arts (LabCom, 2021), and the work of Lynn Hershman Leeson (Mimesis, 2019).
