Experiments in art, connection, and technology

I'm many things, including an artist and cultural producer. Yes, it's hard to pin me down. I'd stop trying if I were you. These days, I express my creativity through words (poems, essays), pixels (photography), code (net art) or the making of meaning in public (resources and gatherings).

My practice is in constant transformation, and so is this page. I'd love to take it in more playful directions in the future. For the moment, it's an archive of creative projects and experiments I've run between 2015 and today.

If you are interested in an artistic collaboration, feel free to send me a quick message. I will never say no to sharing new ideas and meeting people who are passionate about what they do.

Projects

Odd & Wonderful

2024 - On hiatus

Personal essays in newsletter form for people who dare to live creative lives. We talk about the nature of being creative and living through trauma, and share cool stuff I find on the web.

Graphic design for Odd & Wonderful

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

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

A micro invitation to lose yourself in the unspoken.

Screenshot of one of the artwork's pages

How to Feel More at Home

2021

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

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

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.

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

2020

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.

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

Exhibition essay for 'Feed Your Demons and Meet the Ally'

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.

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

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.

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

2018

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.

Selection of tweets
with generated exhibition titles

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.

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

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.

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

2015

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.

Francesco performing in a church
surrounded by a pensive audience

Features

Read.cv Features

2023

Read.cv was a portfolio and social networking platform for creatives. My projects got featured in their 'Features' section several times.

Francesco's article
featured on Read.cv's homepage Francesco's article
featured on Read.cv's homepage Francesco's exhibition
catalogue featured on Read.cv's homepage Francesco's artwork
featured on Read.cv's homepage

Feature on 'How to Feel More at Home' by Banyi Huang on Issue 25 of Show and Tell.

Mobile
screenshot of
'How to Feel More at Home' artwork

Image 'Untitled(2)' was published in Issue 04: 'Self' of Harbor Review, an independent online space and publication for poetry and art.

Still photo of a road, half the frame obscured by a light leak