Leandro Pisano is a curator, writer and independent researcher interested in the intersections between art, sound and technoculture. His specific area of research is the political ecology of rural, marginal and remote territories.

He is the founder and director of the Interferenze new arts festival (2003-) and is frequently involved in electronic and sound art projects, including Mediaterrae Vol.1 (2007), Barsento Mediascape (2013) and Liminaria (2014-). Among the sound art exhibitions he has curated are “Otros sonidos, otros paisajes” (MACRO Museum – Rome, Italy, 2017), “Alteridades de lo invisible” (Festival Tsonami, Valparaíso, Chile, 2018), “Manifesto of Rural Futurism” (Italian Cultural Institute of Melbourne, Australia, 2019) and “Energies in the Rural” (ACAC Aomori Contemporary Art Centre, Japan, 2023).

He has given lectures, conferences and workshops at various universities or during events related to new media aesthetics, design, sound and territorial regeneration processes in several countries around the world.

He has written articles for various magazines such as Corriere della Sera – La Lettura, Blow-Up, Doppiozero, Neural, Exibart and Nero Magazine. He is the author of the book “Nuove geografie del suono. Spazi e territori nell’epoca postdigitale”, published in Milan by Meltemi (2017).

Leandro Pisano holds a PhD in Cultural and Postcolonial Studies from the University of Naples “L’Orientale” and is currently Honorary Scientific Fellow in Anglo-American Literature at the University of Urbino “Carlo Bo”. He is an affiliate member of The Sound Art and Auditory Culture lab (SAAC) at RMIT-Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology’s School of Art and an external member of the soundscape research group “Paesaggi Sonori” at the DFA/University of Applied Sciences of Southern Switzerland. He has taught as Adjunct Professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples and was Honorary Scientific Fellow in Latin Didactics at the University of Naples “Federico II”, where he obtained his Master’s degree with distinction in Ancient Greek, Latin and Italian Literature, focusing his studies on digital philology, electronic teaching methodology and the relationship between new media and classical disciplines.

Selected list of lectures, workshops and presentations

  • 2024 / International Landscape Study Days (20th Edition) – Fondazione Benetton, Treviso, Italy
  • 2023 / Tactus Radio Festival / Usmaradio – San Marino, Republic of San Marino
  • 2023 / BnA Alter Museum – Kyoto, Japan
  • 2023 / Italian Institute of Culture – Tokyo, Japan
  • 2023 / ACAC Aomori Contemporary Art Centre – Aomori, Japan
  • 2023 / Centrul de studii vizuale – Bucharest, Romania
  • 2022 / Bifrost University / The Icelandic Institute for Future Studies – Reykjavik, Iceland
  • 2022 / CoFutures – University of Oslo – Oslo, Norway
  • 2022 / Oscillation Festival – Q-O2 – Bruxelles, Belgium
  • 2021 / Artlab21 – Fondazione Fitzcarraldo, Teatro Tascabile – Bergamo, Italy
  • 2019 / RMIT Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, CAST – Melbourne, Australia
  • 2019 / University of New South Wales, Design & Art – Sydney, Australia
  • 2019 / Otago Polytechnic, Dunedin School of Art – Dunedin, New Zealand
  • 2019 / Audio Foundation – Auckland, New Zealand
  • 2019 / MoTA Museum of Transitory Art – Ljubljana, Slovenia
  • 2018 / Territorios Sonoros – Festival Tsonami / Universidad de Valparaíso, Chile
  • 2018 / Universidad de Magallanes – Punta Arenas, Chile
  • 2018 / SUPSI – Soundmapping workshop, Bigorio/Capriasca, Switzerland
  • 2017 / Süden Radio 2017 – Firenze, Italy
  • 2017 / Invisible Places – Universidade dos Açores, São Miguel, Portugal
  • 2016 / BEK, Bergen Center for Electronic Arts – Bergen, Norway
  • 2015 / MAMM Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín – Medellín, Colombia
  • 2015 / Universidad de Antioquia – Medellín, Colombia
  • 2015 / Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano – Bogotá, Colombia
  • 2015 / Symposium on Self Organization in Art – Riksutställningar, Gnesta, Sweden
  • 2015 / 7th International FKL Symposium on Soundscape – Besenello, Italy
  • 2015 / SOCO Festival/Universidad Católica del Uruguay – Montevideo, Uruguay
  • 2015 / Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú – Lima, Peru
  • 2015 / UNESCO/Crespial – Cusco, Peru
  • 2015 / Tsonami Arte Sonoro/Universidad de Valparaíso – Valparaíso, Chile
  • 2015 / Universidad de Tres de Febrero/CEIArtE – Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • 2014 / Radiofonica – Milano, Italy
  • 2014 / MIS – Museum da Imagem e do Som – São Paulo, Brazil
  • 2013 / Universidade de Lisboa – Faculdade de Belas Artes – Lisbona, Portugal
  • 2013 / Universidade do Porto – Faculdade de Belas Artes – Porto, Portugal
  • 2012 / Reykjavík Art Museum – Reykjavík, Iceland
  • 2012 / Wind As Context – Wilderness Art Conference – Hailuoto, Finland
  • 2012 / MaD Make a Difference @ West Kowloon, Hong Kong
  • 2012 / Nabi Art Center – Seoul, South Korea
  • 2012 / Nam June Paik Art Center – Gyeonggi-do, South Korea
  • 2011 / ISEA2011 – Istanbul, Turkey
  • 2011 / Transitory Network Forum – Belgrade, Serbia
  • 2011 / Artisphere – Arlington, USA
  • 2010 / ISEA2010 Ruhr – Dortmund, Germany
  • 2010 / Interferenze Seeds Tokyo 2010 – Tokyo, Japan
  • 2010 / Tokyo University of Fine Arts – Art Media Center – Tokyo, Japan
  • 2010 / Tokyo University of Fine Arts – Graduate School of Film and New Media – Yokohama, Japan
  • 2009 / Green Platform – CCCS Centro di Cultura Contemporanea La Strozzina – Firenze, Italy
  • 2009 / Node Festival 09 – Modena, Italy
  • 2007 / Offload festival 07 – Bristol, UK
  • 2007 / DOTT 07 – Design Of The Time – Newcastle, UK
  • 2007 / Doors of Perception 9 / Mediawala festival – New Delhi, India
  • 2006 / Pixelache festival of electronic art and subcultures – Helsinki, Finland

Selected list of curatorial projects

  • 2023 / Liminaria MMXXIII microfestival – Codes of marginality, San Martino Valle Caudina (AV), Italia (curator)
  • 2023 / EIR – Energies in the Rural (exhibition), ACAC – Aomori Contemporary Art Centre, Aomori, Japan (curator)
  • 2023 / Seismic Soundscapes, Stromboli Island, Italy (curator)
  • 2022 / Il suono del Tempo @ Procida Capitale italiana della cultura 2022, Procida, Italy (curator)
  • 2022 / Interferenze – Liminaria festival, San Martino Valle Caudina, Italy (director – curator)
  • 2021 / EIR – Energies in the Rural, Aomori prefecture, Japan and Fortore region, Italy (curator)
  • 2021 / Liminaria – Metarurality, San Martino Valle Caudina, Italy (curator)
  • 2021 / Back to Land – Fotografia Europea, Reggio Emilia, Italia (curator)
  • 2019 / Manifesto of Rural Futurism, Italian Cultural Institute of Melbourne, Australia (curator)
  • 2019 / Imperceptibilis Materia, Marano Lagunare, Italy (curator)
  • 2018 / Alteridades de lo invisible, Festival Tsonami, Valparaíso, Chile (curator)
  • 2018 / Risonanze di Vino, Monte Taburno and Valle Caudina region, Italy (curator)
  • 2018 / Liminaria – Transizioni, Riccia / Guardia Sanframondi / Sapri / Palermo, Italy (curator)
  • 2017 / Liminaria – Coexistencias / coesistenze, Fortore region, Italy (curator)
  • 2017 / Otros sonidos, otros paisajes, MACRO, Roma, Italy (curator)
  • 2016 / A Constellation of Moments, Museolaboratorio, Città Sant’Angelo, Italy (curator)
  • 2016 / Liminaria – Rural Futurism, Ginestra degli Schiavoni, Italy (curator)
  • 2015 / Liminaria – #Unmapping Time, San Marco dei Cavoti, Italy (curator)
  • 2015 / Strade di Vini, Castelvenere, Italy (curator of the residency)
  • 2014 / Liminaria, San Marco dei Cavoti, Italy (curator)
  • 2013 / Calitri Temporary Orchestra, Calitri, Italy (curator)
  • 2013 / Barsento Mediascape, Barsento region, Italy (curator)
  • 2013 / Suonabene, Benevento, Italy (curator)
  • 2012 / In Limina Orbis, Campi Flegrei region, Italy (curator)
  • 2012 / FARM/Interferenze new arts festival, Tufo, Italy (director)
  • 2012 / Suoni dal terzo paesaggio – Portobeseno festival, Trentino, Italy (curator)
  • 2011 / Irpinia Field Works, Irpinia, Italy (curator)
  • 2011 / Suoni dal confine#1, Venezia, Italy (curator)
  • 2010 / Mnemosyne/E-Artquake, Avellino, Italy (curator)
  • 2010 / Sentieri Barocchi, Irpinia region, Italy (curator)
  • 2010 / Interferenze new arts festival – Rurality 2.0, Bisaccia, Italy (director)
  • 2007 / Mediaterrae Vol.1, Irpinia region, Italy (director)
  • 2006 / Interferenze new arts festival – Naturalis Electronica, San Martino Valle Caudina, Italy (director)
  • 2005 / Interferenze new arts festival, San Martino Valle Caudina, Italy (director)
  • 2004 / Interferenze new arts festival, San Martino Valle Caudina, Italy (director)
  • 2003 / Interferenze new arts festival, San Martino Valle Caudina, Italy (director)