Linda Rocco is an independent curator, writer, and researcher. She has recently obtained a LAHP-funded PhD at the Royal College of Art, where she developed a curatorial proposal for a future arts ecology in an Industry 5.0 scenario.
Specialised in practice-based research at the crossover of art, the curatorial and new media, with a focus on networked cultures, her practice converges with active transdisciplinary research in emerging technology paradigms, social systems and organisation, alternative economies and collaborative infrastructures. She is currently Course Leader of the Royal College of Art’s Curating Contemporary Art and Design: Theory and Practice summer school, where she designed the course ‘Curating After the Internet: New Media and Digital Cultures’.
Linda has extensive experience in curating exhibitions, public programmes, and residencies, with international organisations such as Delfina Foundation, Yinka Shonibare Foundation and the Goethe Institut. She has worked with artists, collectives and organisations worldwide, from Denmark to Thailand, Ghana, Indonesia and the US, and has consulted for numerous London councils, Arts Council England, the Creative Cities Challenge. She is also a contemporary art expert for Frieze London.
Trained in art history and curating, she has published in Art Monthly, among other magazines, and her curatorial projects have been featured on the BBC, The London Evening Standard, Art Daily, Kunstbulletin, Arte e Critica Magazine, The Quietus, Dazed and GQ.