Biography

Francesco Spampinato is a visual artist and art theorist interested in abstraction, performative practices, “found” media and printed matter. He holds two degrees from the University of Bologna, in Preservation and Art History and an MA in Modern Art: Critical Studies Track from Columbia University in New York. He has been Visiting Professor of Performance Art in the Public Sphere at NABA in Milano in 2009 and is currently Adjunct Professor of Contemporary Art and Its Discourses and Performance Art: Between Media and Mass Media at Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), Providence, RI and Part-Time Faculty of Global Issues in Design and Visuality in the 21st Century at Parsons School of Design, The New School, New York.

He regularly contributes to Kaleidoscope, Flash Art, Artlab, LINK and L’Uomo Vogue and his articles have also appeared on Apartamento and Blow Up. His book Experiencing Hypnotism was published by Atomic Activity Books (an imprint of This is a magazine) in 2009. He lives and works in New York.
 

Academic Research/Areas of Interest

Contemporary abstraction in all media, especially painting, video and sculpture
 
Performance in the public sphere
 
Art collectives and participatory practices
 
Relational aesthetics
 
Aesthetics of politics
 
Countercultures, underground art and tactical media
 
Youth subcultures and artrock
 
Artists’ publications
 
Relationships between art and pop culture (music, design and television)
 
Street culture
 
Vernacular design

Francesco Spampinato

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fspampin@risd.edu
401-454-6572

• LAURE, University of Bologna
• LAURE, University of Bologna
• MA, Columbia University

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