Electromagnetic sensing systems for expressive interaction in electronic music, performance, and time-based media art
Eleonora is an artist and writer exploring the intersection of art, music and technology. Her work, consisting of audiovisual pieces, software, sculptures, interactive installations and live performances has been extensively shown in art institutes, museums, galleries and festivals over Europe, UK, Asia, America - and over the Net.
Recurring themes are identity and the redefinition of the self in relation to reality, and the interpretation of reality through perception, but also the relation between humans and other entities such as machines, the virtual and the alien. She often uses materials such as light, dust and electromagnetic fields.
Her current research explores invisible interfaces and electromagnetic sensing systems for expressive interaction in electronic music, performance, and time-based media art.
Academic qualifications
PhD, Media & Arts Technology, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, Queen Mary, University of London. 2020
MPhil, Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths, University of London 2013
Laurea (Summa cum Laude) in Semiotics of Art. Drama, Art and Music Studies (DAMS), Faculty of Literature and Philosophy, Alma Mater Studiorum, Bologna 2003
Grammar School Diploma, Liceo Classico Statale Cesare Beccaria, Milano, IT. 1995
Teaching and supervision
Eleonora teaches Music Computing 1, Music Computing 2, and Advanced Audiovisual Processing. She is also the Co-convenor of BMus/BSc in Electronic Music, Computing and Technology.
Formed in both science and humanities, music and visual arts, semiotics and critical theory and completing postgraduate studies in computer science and electronic engineering, her lectures convey fresh perspectives and connections across disciplines, stimulating creative thinking and collaborative reflections in the class.
PhD supervision in Electronic Music, Media Art and Media Theory.
Oreggia, Eleonora. 2010. Anche i files hanno un'anima. In: C Hendrickson; S Iaconesi; O Persico; F Ruberti and L Simeone, eds. Reff, RomaEuropa Fake Factory: la reinvenzione del reale attraverso pratiche di remix, mashup, reenactment. Rome: Derive approdi, pp. 62-67. ISBN 9788865480120
Oreggia, Eleonora. 2008. The Piksel big bang. In: Aymeric Mansoux and Marloes de Valk, eds. FLOSS + Art. London: GOTO10 and OPenMute, pp. 254-261. ISBN 9781906496180
Oreggia, Eleonora. 2006. Newbie. In: Y Bernard and A Maes, eds. x-med-a. Brussels: okno, pp. 38-39. ISBN 9081073311
Eleonora has previously funded a media art company in Amsterdam and an electronic music label in London and worked as artist and researcher at Nederlands Instituut voor Mediakunst in Amsterdam, Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht, BBC R&D in London, along with teaching at several prestigious institutes in the UK and internationally.