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Alessandra Di Pisa

Associate Professor, Head of Division

Artist with an interest in transdisciplinary artistic research, and associate professor in Visual Communication and Design.

Transdisciplinary artistic research

The complexity of contemporary art and its constant demands for cognitive flexibility provide an excellent foundation for developing creative and critical thinking.

As an artist, researcher and educator, I am deeply committed to exploring the transformative potential of art within academic and societal context. My work integrates artistic practice, research and pedagogy, aiming to inspire creativity, critical thinking, and transdiciplinary collaboration.

In a time when awareness of humanity's environmental impact is growing, transdisciplinary perspectives and creative competence have become increasingly important tools for promoting sustainable development. Over the past two decades, I have lectured extensively on art and taught artistic methods, with a focus on how art, as a system of knowledge, can serve as a cognitive instrument for analysis and as a foundation for developing creative competence. I have lectured at various institutions and have a long experience in employing challenge based learning as a teaching method.

My artistic practice encompasses a diverse range of methods and expressions, and I am co-founder of the artist duo DiPisaStasinski, in collaboration with Robert Stasinski. In our latest research project, Technoecology - Performing Computation and Aesthetic Sensibility, funded by the Swedish Research Council's artistic research grant, we explore AI and robotics from an ecocentric perspective. The project aims not only to deepen our understanding of these technologies through the means of artistic research, but also to examine AI as an "alien agent" that challenges traditional, anthropocentric perspectives. By investigating AI and robotics as dynamic actors in symbiosis with their environment and combining performative and aesthetic perspectives within a technoecological framework, we aim to open up new ways to understand and shape advanced technologies.

For more information, please visit:
https://alessandradipisa.com/

Short facts about Alessandra di Pisa

CV in short

  • MFA, University Collage of Arts, Crafts & Design, 2006
  • BA Fine Art, Golsmiths Collage, 2003

Portfolio online: http://www.alessandradipisa.com/

Publication

Di Pisa, A. & Stasinski, R. 2021. The Art of Creating the Unthinkable: Connecting Processes of Engineerin, Management, and Aesthetics. In: Kostera, M & Woźniak, C. ed. Aesthetics, Organisation, and Humanistic Management. New York: Routledge, pp.129-149.

Teaching  

  • 2018- Visual communication and design, and Knowledge production, Malmstens LiU
  • 2019-2020 Nordic Contemporary Art, DIS Stockholm
  • 2009-2018 Reflective Design, KTH Media Technology and Interaction Desig
  • 2013-2014 Visual Cultural History, Berghs School of Communicatio
  • 2007-2013 Artistic methods & tools, KTH School of Architecture

Selection of Scholarships

  • 2024 Artistic research grant, The Swedish Research Council
  • 2022 Artistic project grant, The Swedish  Arts Grants Committee
  • 2016 Scholarship from Kulturbryggan
  • 2008 Working grant from the Swedish Arts Grants Committee
  • 2008 International Cultural Exchanges Scholarship from IASPIS
  • 2006 International Cultural Exchanges Scholarship from IASPIS
  • 2006 Scholarship from the University of Arts, Crafts and Design

Represented within the following art collections:

  • Kalmar Konstmuseum
  • Botkyrka konsthall
  • Luciano Benetton Collection
  • IBM Sweden Art Collection

Artistic Research Projects

The art project Being Unthinkable
Photographer: Prallan Allsten

Being Unthinkable...

(2017-02021)
by DiPisaStasinski

Artistic research project in collaboration with IBM and KTH.
Art installation in a dark room featuring a central sculptural piece of tangled wires and glowing elements, with abstract black-and-white artworks displayed on the surrounding walls.

Enchanted Threads of Visual Archana – GESTALTOLOGY ENCODED

(2020 - 2023)

by DiPisaStasinski

Artistic research project in collaboration with:

  • Jonas Unger, Professor, Computer Graphics and Image Processing, LiU
  • Rike Stelkens, Associate Professor, Evolutionary Biology, SU
  • Gabriel Eilertsen, Associate Professor, Machine Learning, LiU
  • Jonas Löwgren, Professor, Interaction and Information Design, LiU
  • Apostolia Tsirikoglou, PhD, LiU (2020–2022)
  • Per Larsson, Engineer (2022–2023)

Funded by The Swedish Arts Grants Committee. Exhibited at Visualiseringscenter, Norrköping, 2023

Selected exhibitions

  • 2023 Enchanted Threads of Visual Archana- GESTALTOLOGY ENCODED, Visualiseringscenter, Norrköping
  • 2015 MAP of the New Art, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice
  • 2011 The return of the losers, Kalmar Art Museum
  • 2009 Living in a Modern Society, Kaliningrad State Art Gallery
  • 2008 Qui vive? Biennial for Young Art, Moscow
  • 2006 Triumph of Emptiness, Stockholm House of Culture
  • 2006 Hyper Design, Shanghai Biennial
  • 2005 Lots of Videos, Haninge Culture House
  • 2005 Hypercommercial, Stockholm Art Fair
  • 2002 Homebase HOUSE of Yokota American Army Base, Tokyo
  • 1997 The stranger – dream or threat, The National Museum, Stockholm

Publications

2021

Alessandra Di Pisa, Robert Stasinski (2021) The Art of Creating the Unthinkable: Connecting Processes of Engineering, Management, and Aesthetics Aesthetics, Organization, and Humanistic Management, p. 129-149 (Chapter in book)

Organisation