Pietro Lugaro is a research artist dealing with visual culture, archives and symbolism.

After obtaining a Bachelor's and a Master's degree in Sculpture at the Academies of Fine Arts in Carrara and Urbino, he moved to Berlin, where he worked for a year in the studio of artist Petrit Halilaj.

"As a researcher, my ongoing projects are always united by a broader point of view, which includes the concept of technological poetry or techno-magic, and the idea of embodied cognition as a poetic and philosophical tool. The fields in which I move are graphics, archives, the creation of situations and the design of events, which often include performances, music, installations.

My research focuses on the study of dysfunctional systems. In particular, I investigate the decompression and tension of oxymoronic states, of which the nature/western culture dichotomy is the most relevant and all-encompassing.

I explore their limits and functions through a praxis that combines archival and aesthetic research with performative, technological and communal practices.

These practices often intertwine and intermingle, leading to the development of texts, statements, poems, cut-ups, recordings and memes."

He is currently conducting research on the meanings and cultural distortions of Cuteness, and an installation and interactive project - ACV (Algorithmic Cultural Vandalism), together with Alessandro Mac-Nelly, whose aim is to investigate the origin of symbolic language, the different levels of diagramming, and a possible reconciliation between Technic and Magic.