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Elisabetta Modena

Elisabetta Modena has a PhD in History of Art (University of Parma 2010), and she is a post-doctoral fellow at the Department of Philosophy "Piero Martinetti" of the University of Milan within the ERC Advanced Grant AN-ICON project, coordinated by Andrea Pinotti. Her main areas of research are contemporary art of the second half of the 20th century, museology and video game culture. She has been a fellow at the Centro Studi e Archivio della Comunicazione of the University of Parma and a lecturer at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brescia SantaGiulia, the University of Milan and the University of Bologna. Together with Marco Scotti, she is the founder of MoRE (www.moremuseum.org), a digital museum-archive dedicated to unrealised contemporary art projects. She has curated exhibitions in public and private venues and catalogues, including the recent Hidden Displays 1975-2020. Progetti non realizzati a Bologna (MAMbo 2021, with V. Rossi). She is the author of La Triennale in mostra. Allestire ed esporre tra studio e spettacolo (1947-1954)(Scripta Edizioni, 2015) and Nelle storie. Arte, cinema e media immersivi (Carocci, 2022).