Linda Rocco is a London-based curator, writer, and researcher. She is Tutor (Research) in Curating Contemporary Art at the Royal College of Art and Curator (Arts & Technology) at Somerset House Studios, where she leads n-Space, a fellowship and experimental research network working across emerging sociotechnical systems, in partnership with UAL’s Creative Computing Institute, Goldsmiths Computing, and Abandon Normal Devices.
With over ten years of freelance experience, Linda has curated exhibitions, programmes, and residencies internationally with established institutions including the Yinka Shonibare Foundation, Goethe-Institut London, Delfina Foundation, Ministry of Culture Taiwan, Brooklyn NARS Foundation, Bagri Foundation, Genesis Foundation, and Jatiwangi Art Factory. She has also curated public realm projects, including a major public commission by Yinka Shonibare CBE for Liberty 2022, and a 20-year accessible digital collection for the Mayor of London.
Her practice-based research positions curatorial practice as a site of infrastructural experimentation, pursuing transdisciplinary inquiries into emerging technologies, networked forms of organisation, and collaborative models. Taking a systems-oriented approach, she examines how AI, quantum computing, and decentralised technologies reconfigure economic, social, and institutional paradigms across arts infrastructures and society more broadly. Through public programming, cross-sector projects, writing, and exhibitions, she develops critical approaches that expand participation in public discourse and extend curatorial practice into civic contexts.
Linda holds an AHRC-funded practice-based PhD. She regularly writes and works as curator for artists, galleries, and organisations while also consulting and evaluating projects for charities, foundations, public authorities, and institutions on accessible, socially engaged and art/tech projects. Additionally, she gives talks, delivers lectures, and mentors artists and organisations seeking to expand their work towards viable new configurations. She is part of XORG, a member of AICA UK International Association of Art Critics, and an Advance HE Fellow.