Finally updating the blog with info about an online event I recently organised for the Centre for Digital Culture at the Department of Digital Humanities, King’s College London, as part of the Online Crowds series. The event happened on Teams on 20 June 2022 and it featured four invited speakers…

Hello folks, after an intense year of remote working, back straining, and quite a bit of beer drinking, I finally have time to post some updates on research developments. Nothing major (I’ve mostly been teaching this year), but a couple research strands spinning off my PhD work have developed into…

I admit this second lockdown is proving much more productive than the first one: I am consuming much more cultural content online (I hated all my feeds just a few months ago) and as a consequence I’ve been inspired to write and publish more. Here’s a quick recap. For starters…

You might not know from following this, but I consume a lot of comedy in various forms, and talk about it constantly. I grew up avidly watching TV sketches and Italian cabaret (Serena Dandini and Renato Pozzetto could be considered my “Bizarro” parents), as well as American movies (Eddie Murphy…

A slightly shorter version of this piece was originally published in Italian on Rivista Studio. I’m probably not the only one seeing dramatic announcements on my Facebook feed these days, with people suddenly deciding to quit the platform. There are lots of good reasons to unplug yourself from Zuckerberg’s data-sucking…

As you might have noticed (but most likely you haven’t), I’m not among those whose productivity shot up to epiphanic levels during quarantine. I did not catch up with any of my numerous reading lists, and the pandemic has definitely not inspired me to start any exciting new projects about…

Been slacking on the blog for months, but with good reasons. For starters, in late January I had the chance to participate in a workshop at Transmediale. I presented and discussed my research on tagging aesthetics (basically the first and last chapter of my thesis) in front of a select…

It took a bit longer than expected, but the six interviews of my Tagging Aesthetics series are now online at Digicult. Each interview discusses different tagging practices, which materialise across a diverse range of aesthetic objects. What I wanted to collect was a sort of glossary of media tactics that…

My name is Nicola Bozzi and I’ve been writing around for a while. I’m mostly interested in globalised identities and the role of art in society, but I’ve covered anything in between exhibitions, movies, media, design, urbanism, and stand-up comedy. You can find links to some of my stuff below…