Artmaking

I'm a maker of things made of words (poems, essays), pixels (photography, code, net art) and the collective making of meaning (resources and gatherings). This is a selection of my work from the last 11 years.

What a world

An infinite generative poem. Written with code based on a tutorial by Alicia Guo and reference material by Daniel Howe. Language generation is handled by RiTa, a tool for making art with words and stories on the internet.

2024

  • Detail of poem generated by the artwork
  • Accordion detail from the net art work 'What a world'

Odd & Wonderful

Travel photography accompanies fleeting, unshakeable thoughts. Part newsletter, part fertile testing ground for new ideas.

2024 – Present

Read the newsletter
  • Graphic design for Odd & Wonderful

Translator and Editor at Passing Notes

Edited and translated an interview between Nicoletta De Santoli and Domenico De Leo.

2023

See Passing Notes
  • Passing Notes Zine
  • Extract from Nicoletta De Santoli's article in Passing Notes
  • Extract from Nicoletta De Santoli's article in Passing Notes

Poem for a Timepiece

A micro invitation to lose yourself in the unspoken.

2022

Read the poem
  • Screenshot of one of the artwork's pages

How to Feel More at Home

Fleeting, often contradictory thoughts about domestic space captured through photos, text, sound and interactive elements.

2021

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  • Screenshot from interactive webpage with colourful shapes, images and text
  • Screenshot from interactive webpage with colourful shapes, images and text
  • Water overlayed by text reading 'our first home was our mother's womb'

Everything You See Is In The Past

An online exhibition and accompanying catalogue focusing on the ways in which emerging artists and curators have been affected by the increasingly dystopian internet culture of the last decade.

2020

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  • Multiple pages from a digital exhibition catalogue
  • Screenshot of the virtual exhibition 'Everything You See Is In The Past'
  • Page from the exhibition catalogue describing the work of Atom Chen Zidong
  • Page from the exhibition catalogue describing the work of Enes Alba
  • Page from the exhibition catalogue describing the work of Perce Jerrom
  • Q&A with Valentina Peri from the exhibition catalogue
  • Conversation with Ghislaine Boddington from the exhibition catalogue
  • The catalogue being set in Adobe InDesign
  • Screenshot of recorded conversation with Ghislaine Boddington

Feed Your Demons and Meet the Ally

A ZIP-compressed exhibition exploring fears, desires, and obstacles artists face in times of crisis and isolation. Featured works cross-referenced mythology, pop culture, the supernatural, and digital selfhood. Curated by Magda Żołędź (of ONE Project) and I, the exhibition opened with an online event featuring artwork walk-throughs, studio visits, and Q&As.

2020

Read the exhibition essay
  • Exhibition website, exhibition ZIP file, and screenshot from recorded talk
  • Exhibition essay
  • ZIP file with artworks

Three Years

Can re-framing social media content as a stream of consciousness tell the story of how it came to be? Three Years contains all my tweets from April 2016 to February 2019 – more than a thousand entries.

2019

See the book
  • Book cover, front
  • Book cover, back
  • Francesco reading the book live

New Alumni '19 at University of Greenwich

Co-curated with David Waterworth, this exhibition showcased the work of four University of Greenwich graduates: John Joseph Watters, Grace Diggens, Marilia Lezou and Rhiannon Ashley. Each of them working in an interdisciplinary field, doing their bit to make a positive impact on our environment and our community.

2019

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  • Artwork and exhibits from New Alumni '19
  • Artwork and architectural exhibits from New Alumni '19
  • Reading area besides the exhibition
  • Signage for New Alumni '19

Exhibition Title Bot

A semi-autonomous program that generated and tweeted 500+ exhibition titles for fictional art exhibitions, from the hilarious to the grotesque. It tweeted daily for two years between 2018 – 2021.

2018

  • Selection of tweets with generated exhibition titles

In The Aisles

Interactive web-work based on a story by Clemens Meyer. The site guides you through narrative extracts, accompanied by corrupted sketches, a forklift spun in space, and a soundtrack I composed.

2018

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  • Homepage from net art project 'In The Aisles'
  • Page in interactive story with forklift render

Concert Photographer at Getintothis

Captured shots of concerts in Liverpool and the Merseyside area. My gig photography portfolio includes Nas, Idles, Real Estates, Tom Grennan, Nathan Fake, and Stealing Sheep.

2017

See the photos
  • Stealing Sheep bandmates dancing on stage with sparkly outfits
  • Member of Real Estate performing live
  • Nas singing on stage
  • Woman playing the ukulele
  • Real Estate performing live under dramatic stage lights
  • Bassist playing while lost in the music

Musician

Made, released and performed music under my own name and the aliases Mountain King and Young Offices. Played in cover bands, dj'd and performed my own music at informal gigs in Italy and England.

2015

Listen on Bandcamp
  • Francesco performing in a church surrounded by a pensive audience