VAL RAVAGLIA is Curator, Displays and International Art at Tate Modern, London, and Curator of Electric Dreams: Art and Technology before the Internet. They assisted with the complete rehang of Tate Modern’s Collection Displays in 2015-16 and have curated numerous collection display rooms since 2012. They co-curated the Tate Modern exhibition A Year in Art: Australia 1992 (2021-2023) and led the touring Tate exhibition The Dynamic Eye: Beyond Op and Kinetic Art. They were the Assistant Curator for the 2017 Turbine Hall Commission by SUPERFLEX and Tate Modern’s Nam June Paik retrospective. Their research interests include the intersections of art, science, and technology, as well as non-anthropocentric philosophies and the posthumanities.
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FRANCESCA FRANCO, PhD, is an independent curator, art historian, and producer based in the UK and Italy. Her research on the history of early computer art and its pioneers has been widely published and translated. Her recent books include Generative Systems Art (Routledge, 2018), The Algorithmic Dimension (Springer, 2022), and Computer Art at the Venice Biennale (Springer, 2025). Notable curatorial projects include Vera Molnár: Icône 2020 at the 59th Venice Biennale, Algorithmic Signs (Venice, 2017), and Vera Molnár: Variazioni Icône (Rome, 2023). She has commissioned significant new works, such as Molnár’s first glasswork in Murano, Icône 2020 (2021), Roman Verostko’s St Mark’s Apocalypse(2017), and Ernest Edmonds’s Growth and Form (2017). Francesca will serve as the 2025 SIGGRAPH Art Gallery Chair.
DARKO FRITZ is an artist, independent curator, and researcher specializing in the history of New Tendencies and early digital art. His curatorial work and research have gained international recognition, with notable exhibitions at HDLU, Zagreb (2000), Neue Galerie, Graz (2007), ZKM, Karlsruhe (2008–09), and Akbank, Istanbul (2014). Fritz edited Media Art in Croatia for the Culturenet portal and conducted pioneering research on The Beginning of Digital Arts in the Netherlands (1955–1980), a project awarded a grant by the Mondriaan Foundation.
His book, Digital Art in Croatia 1968–1984, published by the Technical Museum Nikola Tesla in Zagreb (2020), was accompanied by an exhibition. An English edition was released in 2022. Since 2006, Fritz has been the founder and programmer of grey) (area, a space dedicated to contemporary and media art.
