ABOUT

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 network for experimentation across art, technology, and 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 investigates curatorial practice as a site of infrastructural and organisational experimentation, developing transdisciplinary and networked models that redistribute agency and open new possibilities for how culture is collaboratively produced, circulated, and governed. Taking a systems-oriented approach, she critically examines how emerging and advanced technologies challenge and reconfigure organisational, economic, and social paradigms across arts infrastructures and society at large. Working cross-sector in research, practice, and public discourse, she develops technology-informed critical approaches that expand participation and extend curatorial practice into public interest contexts.

Linda obtained her practice-based PhD from the Royal College of Art, 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 viable new configurations. She is part of XORG and a member of AICA UK International Association of Art Critics.