Marialaura Ghidini
Bio
Marialaura Ghidini is a curator, researcher and writer based in Newcastle upon Tyne.
She is founder and director of the web-based curatorial platform or-bits.com, a project devoted to promoting practices and dialogues across and beyond media and exploring the creative and critical possibilities of the web as a language, medium and subject.
She is co-curator at Grand Union, an artist-led project space and studios in Birmingham, for which she has organised the residency programme 'Search Engine' and a series of collaborative exhibitions and sound performances.
Marialaura is currently a PhD researcher on an AHRC studentship with CRUMB (Curatorial Resource for Upstart Media Bliss) at the University of Sunderland, researching in the field of online curating with a specific interest in the theory and practice of artistic and curatorial work operating between the online and offline dimensions.
Over the years, Marialaura has organised and coordinated a variety of curatorial projects independently and collaboratively, from film screenings to sound performances and workshops, at venues like James Taylor Gallery ('Back and Forth. And all over again', 'screen-play'; 2009), Tate Britain ('Brilliant Noise'; 2008), Tate Modern (curated series of web podcasts for the 'Tate Summer Institute - Screens and Holes'; 2010) and The Showroom Gallery ('Veiled Conversation No. 9' curated by Sound Threshold) in London.
