Laura Barreca

Laura Barreca is an art historian and curator. She lives in Palermo. She is an adjunct lecturer in 'Media Phenomenology' at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Palermo. She was junior curator at the PAN-Palazzo delle Arti Napoli (2007-2009). In 2009 she won a post doctorate research grant to study at the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies, Columbia University, New York. She has curated exhibitions and worked on projects for a number of museums and foundations, including: Fondazione MAXXI; Riso, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea della Sicilia; Italian Cultural Institute of New York; Fondation Ariane de Rothschild. In 2012 she curated the Italian pavilion, with the exhibition 'Palermo felicissima', at the 9th Shanghai Biennale. She has held conferences on New Art Media conservation in Italy, the United States, Canada, Portugal, Belgium, and the Netherlands. She is the author of Arte e Tecnologia. Dalle avanguardie storiche alla New Media Art, 2013, Aracne Editore.