Eleonora Roaro (Varese, 1989) is a visual artist and researcher based in Milano. She holds degrees in Photography (BA – IED, Milano), Visual Arts and Curatorial Studies (MA – NABA, Milano), and Contemporary Art Practice (MA – Plymouth University, Plymouth). Currently, is a lecturer in Aesthetics, New Media Aesthetics, Multimedia Communication, and Modern Art History at NABA, Milano (BA Cinema and Animation, BA Creative Technologies, MA Creative Media Production). Additionally, she teaches Phenomenology of Contemporary Art at IED, Milano (BA Product Design).
Her work has been shown since 2011 in many galleries and museums such as La Triennale (Milano), Fabbrica del Vapore (Milano), Casa degli Artisti (Milano), CAMERA (Torino), MACRO (Roma), CAMeC (La Spezia), E-Werk (Freiburg), Maison de la Culture (Clermont- Ferrand), La Friche (Marseilles), Istituto Italiano di Cultura (Madrid and Prague).
As a research fellow at the Università degli Studi di Udine, she contributed to the 2019 project “VR and AR in the valorisation of cultural and art heritage”. From 2020 to 2024, she was part of the project “Sensing Dolce Vita: An Experiment in VR Storytelling,” which won the MISTI Global Seed Fund (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA; SISSA, Trieste, Friuli-Venezia Giulia). She has also authored articles focusing on cinema architecture and VR reconstruction (L’Avventura, 2020; Alphaville, 2021), film programming in Udine (MHRA, 2024), cinema theatres in visual arts (LabCom, 2021), and the work of Lynn Hershman Leeson (Mimesis, 2019).