Lorenzo LAZZARI

Position
Adjunct Professor
E-mail
lorenzo.lazzari@unive.it
Website
www.unive.it/people/lorenzo.lazzari (personal record)
Office
Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage
Website: https://www.unive.it/dep.fbc

Teaching and tutoring

2025–2026

– Iuav University of Venice, Contract Lecturer, BA in Design della moda e arti multimediali, Arti multimediali pathway, Laboratorio Video course

2024–2025

– Iuav University of Venice, Contract Lecturer, BA in Design della moda e arti multimediali, Arti multimediali pathway, Laboratorio Video course

2023–2024

– Iuav University of Venice, Contract Lecturer, BA in Design della moda e arti multimediali, Arti multimediali pathway, Laboratorio Video course

– Iuav University of Venice, Coordinator of the MOVIES – Moving Images Arts Master’s Programme

2022–2023

– Iuav University of Venice, Teaching Assistant for the Video e immaginari visuali course, MA in Teatro e arti performative

2021–2022

– Iuav University of Venice, Tutor Coordinator for the MOVIES – Moving Images Arts Master’s Programme

2019–2020

– Iuav University of Venice, Teaching Assistant for the Laboratorio integrato di messa in scena. Corpo, spazio e interazioni digitali course, MA in Teatro e arti performative

– Iuav University of Venice, Teaching Assistant for the Illustrazione digitale course, BA in Design della moda e arti multimediali

– University of Udine, Tutor, BA in Discipline delle arti, della musica e dello spettacolo

Curation of exhibitions, film programmes, and residencies

2026

– Sala Veruda, Trieste, Curator of the exhibition Speaking After the Body, 20 May–4 June; artists: Shadi Harouni, Carloni-Franceschetti, Madeleine Ruggi

– Casa Cavazzini, Udine, Curator of the exhibition Dall’evidenza all’immaginazione, 27 February–24 May; artists: Noémie Goudal, Robida, Sonia Levy, Pol Esteve Castelló, Gerard Ortín Castellví, Carloni-Franceschetti

– Mediateca Cinemazero, Pordenone, Co-curator of the film programme Prima e dopo l’archivio, 6 March; artists: Maria Iorio and Raphaël Cuomo, Ellis Donda

2025

– Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice, Co-curator of the screening programme Artchae. A Curated Video Programme, 9; artists: Lili Dujourie, Sanja Iveković, Joan Jonas, Michele Sambin, and VALIE EXPORT

– Apoteka, Croatia, Curator of the screening of Undead Voices by Maria Iorio and Raphaël Cuomo for Kino Apoteka, 5 December

2024

– Casa Cavazzini, Udine, Curator of the exhibition How do we build others’ images?, 13 December–16 March 2025; artists: Invernomuto, Gelare Khoshgozaran, Little Warsaw, Stefan Kruse, Eleonora Roaro

– UIA, Venice, Curator of the film programme FFF. Feticcio, facsimile, film; artists: Adèle Friedman, Sirio Luginbühl, Richard Philpott, Frances Scott; presented within Policroma, curated by Chiara Ascari

– Trieste, Co-curator of Gangart’s artistic residency for the Clanz project, within Culture Moves Europe (Creative Europe), 22 August–14 September; artists: Adina Camhy (AT), Barbara Togander (SE), Gustavo Petek (AR), Vinzenz Schwab (AT)

– Trieste, Curator of a film programme on the maritime economy, 4 August; artists: Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Verena Paravel, Carloni-Franceschetti, Danilo Correale, Sonia Levy, Ana Vaz; presented within the POP Adriatico – Porto Osservatorio Partecipato project (Italian Ministry of Culture, Creative Living Lab 5)

– Trieste, Curator of the artistic residency organised as part of the POP Adriatico project, 20 May–21 June; artist: Madeleine Ruggi (UK)

– Teatrino di Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Curator of the film programme To Pursue a Here Elsewhere – Two Films by Éric Baudelaire, 12 April

– Apoteka, Croatia, Curator of the screening of The Bow Wake [Vala e Harku] by Silvi Naçi for Kino Apoteka, 17 January

2023

– Spazio35 / Visionario, Udine, Co-curator of the exhibition Mind the Gap 7, 28 October–26 November; artists: Éric Baudelaire, Francesco Bertocco, Anouk Chambaz, Eva Giolo, Silvi Naçi

2022

– Ca’ Tron, Iuav University of Venice, Curator of the exhibition Riconfigurazioni. Tre indagini filmiche sul silvano; artists: Noémie Goudal, Sasha Litvintseva, Bárbara Sanchez Barroso, Beny Wagner

– Spazio35 / Visionario, Udine, Co-curator of the exhibition Mind the Gap 6; artists: Karolina Bergman Engmann, Sofia Caesar, Danilo Correale, Giulia Iacolutti, Flavia Tritto

– Galleria d’Arte Moderna / Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Exhibition Design Consultant for Il video rende felici. Videoarte in Italia, curated by Valentina Valentini

– MEGA, Milan, Curator of the exhibition Lorenzo Mason Studio. Sunsets and Sunrises

– Trieste Contemporanea / ICA, Trieste–Zagreb, Editorial Coordinator for Carloni-Franceschetti’s Esso. Shadows Oozing Gold, curated by Giuliana Carbi and Janka Vukmir, a project supported by the 10th Italian Council programme

2020

– Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice, Co-curator of the exhibition Opposizioni

– XXVII FilmForum, University of Udine, Co-curator of the film programmes

2018

– Gino Valle, Iuav University of Venice, Curator of the exhibition Body Downtown. Corpi, feste e spazi nella New York “No-Wave”

Research projects and groups

2024–2026

– Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Research Fellow, PRIN PNRR project ARTCHAE. Rediscovering video and installation art as an archaeology of telepresence

2023–2024

– Adriatico Book Club, Coordinator of the POP Adriatico – Porto Osservatorio Partecipato project, recipient of the fifth edition of the Creative Living Lab Award promoted by the Italian Ministry of Culture

2018–2023

– Iuav University of Venice, Member of the LSD. Immaginari pubblici, forme del displaying research cluster

– Iuav University of Venice, Member of MeLa Media Lab

2022

– Iuav University of Venice, Member of the research unit for the PRIN project Sylva. Ripensare la selva

2021

– MACBA – Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Visiting Researcher, research project Video-Nou / Servei de Vídeo Comunitari. La práctica vídeo como espacio político, Barcelona 1977–1983

– Iuav University of Venice, Member of the research unit for the PRIN project Sylva. Ripensare la selva

2020

– Iuav University of Venice, Member of the research unit for the PRIN project Sylva. Ripensare la selva

2019

– Goethe-Institut, Institut français, Izolyatsia, and Nida Art Colony of Vilnius Academy of Arts, Research Fellow, Creative Europe project i-Portunus

2018

– Iuav University of Venice, Research Fellow, research project Tecniche e teorie delle immagini festive in ambito urbano

Conferences, seminars, and workshops

2026

– University of Bergamo, paper entitled “La circolazione del dissenso. Gli interventi del collettivo Video-Nou a Can Serra e Nou Barris, Barcellona 1977–1978,” presented at the conference Imagining Resistance. Actions, Methods, and Technologies of Protest, 12–13 March

2025

– Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa and Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Organiser of the Artchae Seminars series, 3, 10, and 17 February; invited speakers: Francesco Spampinato, Adeena Mey, Lucy Reynolds, Erika Tan

2024

– HEAD – Haute école d’art et de design Genève and Iuav University of Venice, Organiser of the workshop Thinking With and About Decolonial Curating, with Charlotte Laubard and Adeena Mey, 9–13 October; invited speakers: Amanda Carneiro, Andrea Bellini, Moe Satt

– Iuav University of Venice, paper entitled “Silvain. La fine dell’adolescenza: la selva nell’opera di Poggi e Vinel,” presented at the seminar Avamposti nella selva, 22 February

– King’s College London, paper entitled “After Work. The Experience of Video-Nou in Can Serra, 1978,” presented at the conference Images at Work, 23 June

2023

– Iuav University of Venice, Moderator of the seminar Eva Giolo, Silvi Naçi. Intorno al gesto / On gesture, 10 November

– King’s College London, paper entitled “After Work. The Experience of Video-Nou in Can Serra, 1978,” presented at the conference Images at Work, 23 June

2022

– University of Udine, Moderator of the seminar Sofia Caesar, Danilo Correale. Abitare la contemporaneità, 3 November

2021

– Mousonturm, Frankfurt, paper entitled “Reconsidering Early Community Video. Seeking a Conflictual Common Space,” presented at the conference Visible Evidence XXVII. Documentary and Democracy in Crisis, 16 December

– Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3, paper entitled “Gnoséologie du patrimoine vidéo: techniques d’exposition et accessibilité du fonds Col·lectiu Video-Nou / Servei de Vídeo Comunitari,” presented at the conference Patrimoines en Arts et Médias: transmissions, médiations, redécouvertes, 27 May

– University of Udine, Moderator of the seminar Moving Image-Based Curatorial Practice. A Presentation by Aily Nash, 22 March

2020

– Iuav University of Venice, paper entitled “Controfigure. Lo specchio-giungla di Juan Downey,” presented at the conference Sylva. Città, nature, avamposti, 13 November

2018

– Unfolding Pavilion, Venice, paper entitled “Devenirs,” presented at the seminar CSU in Motion, 27 May

– Ca’ Pesaro – International Gallery of Modern Art, Venice, paper entitled “Paradise Garage. Il tempo dell’alta marea,” presented at the conference INTER/Rotto–IN/Finito, 23 February

Degree theses supervised

2026

– Supervisor of Linda Pietrobeli and Ambra Zamengo’s thesis, This is the place where we meet. Verso una metodologia relazionale nel territorio, BA in Arti multimediali, Iuav University of Venice

– Co-supervisor of Elena Di Battista’s thesis, How to Stop Worrying and Love the Post-Medium. Notes for a Genealogy of Italian Art Practices of Medial Resistance, MA in Economics and Administration of Arts and Culture, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice

Other

2024–2026

– Associate Editor of Quarterly Review of Film and Video, Taylor & Francis Group