AHRC Block Grant-funded PhD studentship 2011–14. Marialaura Ghidini is a curator and researcher based in London, UK. She submitted her practice-based doctoral research, "Curating web-based art exhibitions: mapping their integration with offline formats of display", in January 2015. The thesis is in the field of curatorial studies and exhibition history with a focus on curatorial modes and exhibition models online and the hows and whys of their distribution offline.
Marialaura is founder director of or-bits.com, a web-based curatorial platform that has supported the development, production and presentation of artworks and discourses that engage with the web and internet cultures since 2009.
Her approach to curating is hybrid and across-disciplines and draws on her research and work with different formats of presenting contemporary art to reach audiences outside the gallery space and beyond the exhibition. Interested in how web tools have infiltrated the production and distribution of art and culture, she has commissioned and produced work for online exhibition, public sites, mobile phones, radio broadcasts and publications.

http://marialaura-ghidini.hotglue.me/