ABOUT

Linda Rocco is a London-based Independent Curator, Writer, Consultant, and Research Tutor at the Royal College of Art. With over nine years of freelance experience, she 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 for the Mayor of London, including a major public commission by Yinka Shonibare CBE for Liberty 2022, and is currently working with Google to develop a 20-year accessible digital collection.

Her practice-based research is situated at the intersection of contemporary art, the curatorial, and new media, with a focus on how emerging technologies can facilitate new organisational, financial, and collaborative paradigms for future distributed arts infrastructures. This extends to critical explorations of the public implications of quantum technologies and AI, as well as the emerging possibilities of alternative currencies and economies, decentralised web (DWeb), and platform cooperativism. Her work explores how collaborative, distributed, and P2P network infrastructures can enable greater access, reconfigure arts production and participation, and expand the scope of curatorial practice.

Linda has worked with artists, collectives, and organisations worldwide, from Denmark to Thailand, Ghana, Indonesia, and the US, and has consulted for numerous London councils, Arts Council England, the Creative Cities Challenge and is a Contemporary Art Expert for Frieze London. In 2023, she designed and led the ‘Curating After the Internet: New Media and Digital Cultures’ summer school at the Royal College of Art.

Linda obtained her practice-based PhD from the Royal College of Art in 2024, with funding from AHRC/LAHP. 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 new media projects. Additionally, she gives talks, delivers lectures, and mentors artists and organisations seeking to expand their work towards new, viable configurations. She is part of XORG and a member of AICA UK International Association of Art Critics.