Livia N Rozsas

Lívia Nolasco-Rózsás

Lívia Nolasco-Rózsás is a curator, art historian, author, and educator. She has curated exhibitions at institutions of contemporary and media art worldwide since 2006 at institutions such as the ZKM | Center for Art and media Karlsruhe, Nam June Paik Art Center, or Ludwig Museum Budapest, focusing on the genealogy and social impact of planetary computation or electronic surveillance and democracy.  

Between 2019-23 she conducted research in curatorial studies on the “virtual condition” and its implications in the exhibition space at the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig, and as acting head of the international collaboration project entitled Beyond Matter at ZKM | Karlsruhe, which she initiated and in which institutions such as Aalto University, Centre Pompidou, Paris, EPFL Pavilions, Lausanne, Ludwig Museum Budapest, Tallinn Art Hall, and 

Tirana Art Lab participate. She has recently edited the volume Beyond Matter, Within Space. Curatorial and Art Mediation Techniques on the Verge of Virtual Reality (2023) that summarized the project. 

Nolasco-Rózsás's research interests, rooted in the fields of art history, aesthetics, curatorial studies, and media studies, focus on understanding curating as a process of world-making. The potential afforded by information technology introduces complexities that transform exhibition-making into an act of world-building. Instead of merely representing pre-existing realities, the primary characteristic of this approach is the modeling of possible future scenarios, capable of fostering change.

Currently she serves as a curator for ARE YOU FOR REAL a hybrid platform for transnational dialogue around digital world-making, exploring the influence of science and computation by IFA - Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen and serves as a research fellow at ECAL Lausanne. As of 2023 she has taken up a lecturer role in curation and media practice at University College London.