Laura Baigorri

Laura Baigorri (Barcelona, 1960) is a curator, researcher, and professor specializing in new media art, video art, and digital culture. She is a Professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Barcelona, where she has taught since 1993, focusing on contemporary audiovisual practices, net.art, and artistic practices related to digital technologies. She currently serves as Director of the Department of Design and Image at the same institution. She holds a PhD in Fine Arts from the University of Barcelona (1996). Her doctoral research examined the early history of video art between 1963 and 1979, analyzing the emergence of video within the social and artistic context of the 1960s and 1970s and its connections with historical avant-gardes. Her academic and curatorial work has played a significant role in the critical study of video art, networked art, and the transformations of visual culture in the digital era. Her curatorial projects include Homo Ludens Ludens (Laboral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, Gijón, 2008) and Videoarde. Critical Video in Latin America and the Caribbean (AECID and Instituto Cervantes, 2009–2015). In 2012 she was featured in the program Carta blanca a comisarios on Metrópolis (RTVE). She is the author of influential books on the history and theory of video art and networked art, including Video in Latin America. A Critical History (2008), Net.art. Aesthetic and Political Practices on the Net (2006), Video. First Stage: Video in the Social and Artistic Context of the 1960s–70s (2004), and Video and the Historical Avant-Gardes (1997). She is a member of the IMARTE research group and has participated in several research projects on art, technology, and contemporary artistic methodologies.