Presenter

Francesca Franco, PhD, is a UK and Italy-based curator, art historian and producer. She researches early computer art and its pioneers, with books including Generative Systems Art (2018), The Algorithmic Dimension (2022), and Computer Art at the Venice Biennale (2025). Notable curatorial projects include Vera Molnár: Icône 2020 at the 59th Venice Biennale, Algorithmic Signs (Venice, 2017), and Vera Molnár: Variazioni Icône (Rome, 2023). She has commissioned significant new works, such as Molnár's first glasswork in Murano, Icône 2020 (2021), Roman Verostko's St Mark's Apocalypse (2017), and Ernest Edmonds’s Growth and Form (2017). She is Visiting Professor at KIT Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and 2025 SIGGRAPH Art Gallery Chair.