ABOUT

Giada Totaro is born on 15/05/1982 in Lecce (Apulia, Italy) and she’s a multimedia artist and curator currently living in Bimingham (UK).  

Qualifications

2015 MA in Cinema, Television and Multimedia production at the Rome Three University (Italy)         [Thesis From the origins of video art to the digital revolution. Memory, education and art in the critical and historical review Programs in place between UK and Italy, an international research project dedicated to REWIND/REWINDItalia]                         2010 MA Multimedia and Interactive Art and Design, Brera Fine Art Academy (Milan, Italy)                                                     [Thesis: Language, nervous system and new technologies: the limit between real and virtual. Bordernetart_www.delfine.it: the living memory archive]                                                                                                                                                         2007 MASTER Digital Environment Design, NABA (New Fine Art Academy, Milan, Italy)                                                              2005 BA Theatre Director and Coordinator, Rome Three University (Italy)                                                                                        [Thesis: Ida Gerosa: figurative art, performance and computer art]                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                

Exhibitions and festivals

2014/2015 – BE Festival: european theatre and performance festival (visual art staff)                   
2013 – Lo Spiraglio:  mental health film festival
Dolphin Girls_exit strategy (author)
2012 – Filmmaker: independent film festival since 1980
Dolphin Girls_exit strategy (author)
2010 – Senso Plurimo: personal exhibition curated by M. Giannandrea
Bordernetart_www.delfine.it (author)
2010 – StreamFest: eco-digital and audiovisual experimentations festival
2010 – Node Fest: tinerant electronic and digital arts festival
Bordernetart_www.delfine.it (author)
collective exhibition (curator)
2010 – MemeFest: socially responsive communication friendly competition
Bordernetart_www.delfine.it (author)
2009 – Festival del Cinema indipendente di Foggia: independent film festial of Foggia
Lo specchio_Laboratorio intermediale (author)
2009 – StreamFest: eco-digital and audiovisual experimentations festival
Nduma nu ciru (author)
2009 – Node Fest: itinerant electronic and digital arts festival
collective exhibition(curator)
2008 – Toshare: Piemonte Share festival
V.I.P. Virtual Identity Process (author with Extend3dLab)
V.I.P. Virtual Identity Process (author with Extend3dLab)
 2007 – Node Fest: itinerant electronic and digital arts festival
Toilet (author)

Social multimedia art

2011/12 – Twinning Brera-Mapp in collaboration with the Fine Art Academy of Brera, Mapp_Museo d’arte Paolo Pini (Art Museum Paolo Pini) and Hospital NiguardaCa’ Granda of Milan ( teaching assistant, author and coordinator)
2011 -PBM Pooglia Beat Making electonic music contest for apulian producers  [Public Call Award Principi Attivi 2010] (project, event and communication manager)
2008/13 -Dolphins Company at Therapeutic Community for adolescent “I Delfini” (The Dolphins) and Hospital NiguardaCa’ Granda of Milan (author, curator and project manager)

Social theatre

2003/04 – ARTESTUDIO with Riccardo Vannuccini: The Tragedy of the Dutchesse of Malfy   with students from Rome Three University;  Scene di battaglia (Battle scenes) with teens from EtaBeta in Viterbo, Italy; A room in the tower with people of Corviale Square in Rome; Correnti (Streams) with people from the Prison Rebibbia in Rome (first actress and director assistant)