Davide Bevilacqua is a media artist and curator interested in network infrastructures and technological activism, as well as experimental presentation formats for artistic work and research. His current research deals with the environmental and social impact of internet technologies and platforms, looking critically at digital greenwashing and seeking escape routes from platform capitalism.
Davide is currently manager & curator at servus.at, an association dealing with open source internet infrastructure and online art and culture. He organizes the community festival AMRO Art Meets Radical Openness since 2018.
He teaches at the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam, is part of the artist collective qujOchÖ and is a member of the program boards of the Festival der Regionen and LINZ FMR.
2012-2017 MA Interface Cultures, Kunstuniversität Linz, Austria
2008-2011 BA Visual and Performing Arts, IUAV, Venice, Italy
2022 - Fellowship at Das Weisse Haus, Vienna / dwhx.space
Silicon Friends Camp, Gosau, 2021
"CENTRAL & EAST EUROPE CALLING" - artist in residence in Minsk, Belarus, 2019
Phytorio Residency, Nikosia, Cyprus, 2019
local artist in residence in Salzamt Linz, AT, 2018-2019
LaRU Laboratory for Urban Regeneration, Trieste, Italy, 2018
servus.at artistic research lab 2017, AT, 2017
curator in residence at GAP Glurns Art Point, Glurns (Bozen, Italien), 2015
2017-2018 - Grant from the Austrian Federal Ministry of Science and Research (Arbeitsstipendium BMWFW)
2015 - Leistungsstipendium, Kunstuniversität Linz
2014 - Leistungsstipendium, Kunstuniversität Linz
EL QUESO, im.Wirtshaus, Linz, 2022
Festival der regionen 2023, Upper Austria, AT, 2023
LINZ FMR 23, Linz, AT, 2023
DEBUG, AMRO Festival - Art Meets Radical Openness, Linz, AT, 2022
Camping with Computers, Kunstuniversität Linz, 2021
LINZ FMR 21, Linz, AT, 2021
Tautologies. Or The Fallacies of Misplaced Concreteness, bb15, group exhibition, AT, 2021
Michele Spanghero: Monologue & Loopdown, online residency and exhibition, bb15, AT, 2020
The Wild State: networked, Ars Electronica Festival, Linz, AT, 2020
Of Whirlpools and Tornadoes, AMRO Festival - Art Meets Radical Openness, Linz, AT, 2020
Lost in a Garden of Clouds, AMRO20 Festival, virtual exhibition, 2020
Handapparate, Salzamt, Linz, AT, 2019
Vaping Networks, symposium, Timebased Media, Kunstuniversität Linz, 2019
LINZ FMR 19, Linz, AT, 2019
Unmapping Infrastructures, AMRO Festival 2018, Linz, AT, 2018
1+1=3, Atelierhouse Museion, Museion Bozen/Bolzano, IT, 2018
Premio In Sesto, Palinsesti 2017, San Vito al Tagliamento, IT, 2017
Natura Morta Palinsesti 2016, Fondazione Ado Furlan, Pordenone, IT, 2016
Interacting Art: Working Unworks and Unworking Works, Raumschiff, Ars Electronica Festival, Linz, AT, 2016
A Measurement measures measuring means , Palinsesti 2015, San Vito al Tagliamento (PN), IT, 2015
Summer program, GAP Glurns Art Point, Glurns / Glorenza (BZ), IT, 2015
Unmade Displays, Villa Manin di Passariano (UD), IT, 2015
Recalculating. Computing Territories and their Analog Actuators, belo189, 2020
EL QUESO, im.Wirtshaus, Linz, 2022
Camping with Computers, Kunstuniversität Linz, 2021
Relative Humidity, Y Gallery, Minsk BY, 2019
Plein Air, Balduk-Lyntupy-Minsk, BY, 2019
Co.So! Artisti per il sociale, workshop and touring exhibition, FVG, IT, 2019
KLANGMANIFESTE 2019, Vienna, AT, 2019
Pixxelpoint, Nova Gorica, 2018
Inside Intel, 2018 CIJ Logan Symposium: Conspiracy. Goldsmiths, University of London, UK, 2018
York Mediale, York, UK, 2018
Duty Free, Chelsea College of Arts, Westminster, London, UK, 2018
In The Works, Salzamt, Linz, AT, 2018
HIC SVNT DRACONES, organized by servus.at, Kunstraum Goethestrasse, Linz, AT, 2017
BEST OFF - Kunstuniversität Linz, OK Contemporary Art Centre, Linz, AT, 2017
Emotion + the Tech(no)body, Austrian Cultural Forum London, London, GB, 2017
[H:UMMMM] - auditive.wellness.heterotopologies, Wellnessoase Hummelhof, Linz, AT, 2016
Cose che hai fatto mentre non c'era la guerra, Caserma Osoppo, Udine, IT, 2015
GENERATE!, Shedhalle Tübingen, Tübingen, DE, 2015
Post-Post, Ars Electronica 2015, Linz, AT, 2015
L'arte vede di più, Colonos Open Call 2, Ai Colonos, Villacaccia (UD), IT, 2015
Reset, Artefatto 10, Palazzo Gopcevic, Trieste, IT, 2015
OHP II SchauRaumEck - EckSchauRaum, Gmunden, AT, 2015
Linzer Kunststoff 2015, Tabakfabrik, Linz, AT, 2015
BEST OFF 2014 Kunstuniversität Linz, Linz, AT, 2014
10 Years of Interface Cultures, Ars Electronica 2014, Linz, AT, 2014
Inhabited Interface, bb15, Linz, AT, 2014
Use at your own risk, Ars Electronica 2013, Linz, AT, 2013
Metaphors, Nomadenetappe, Linz, AT, 2013
DYI - D*sign Your (own) Infrastructures! Exploring critical approaches in design & technology, presentation at VisKom, Kunstuni Linz, 2023
From Brute Force to Convivial Technologies. Conceiving sustainabile tech in Media Art. Lecture at Interface Cultures, Kunstuni Linz, 2022
NEXT CLOUD ATELIERHAUS und SELF HOSTING, STWST48x8 DEEP, Linz, 2022
Mur.at Worksession (Un)sustainable, Graz, 2022.
Tangible Cloud, Brussels, 2022
NØ SCHOOL NEVERS, Nevers France, 2022
Artist talk and exhibition presentation at Casa Cavazzini, 2020
Piksel 2019, Bergen, NO, 2019
Unfinished Network, STWST48X5 - STAY UNFINISHED, STWST, 2019
MVT @ Bains Numèriques, Bains Numèriques, Paris, FR, 2018
Cultural Hackaton, LaRU project presentation, Trieste, IT, 2018
Digital Design Weekend, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, GB, 2017
Mythos von Theuth at Ars Electronica Festival 2017, Postcity, Linz, AT, 2017
errezeta kulturalak - recetas culturales, Bilbao - Biskaia, ES, 2015
All Frontiers Festival, Gradisca d'Isonzo (GO), IT, 2014
Piksel 2014, Bergen, NO, 2014
roBOt 07, Bologna, IT, 2014
Sonar+D, Barcelona, ES, 2014
Use at your own risk, MNAC & Victoria Art Centre, Bucharest, RO, 2014
The Art of Vernissage, bb15, Linz, AT, 2013
Davide Bevilacqua, »What lives in the data center?«, in Die VersorgerIn, December 2022
Davide Bevilacqua, Water striders on networks, in Die VersorgerIn, September 2022
Davide Bevilacqua, Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow, in Die Referentin, June 2022
Davide Bevilacqua, Center for Networked Intimacy, in Die VersorgerIn, September 2021
Davide Bevilacqua, What can be an art server today?, in Die VersorgerIn, June 2021
Davide Bevilacqua (ed.), Alice Strete & Manetta Berends / Varia.Zone (editor-designers), AAVV, A Nourishing Network, online publication and distribution experiment, servus.at, 2020-21.
Davide Bevilacqua & Katja Lux (eds.), AAVV, Out of E-Business, servus.at, Linz, 2020.
Davide Bevilacqua, »Do yourself good for the good of the planet«, in Die VersorgerIn, September 2020
Davide Bevilacqua, “Mut für Alternatives. Der mutige Umgang mit Technologie liegt heute in der ständigen Suche nach den Tools für die digitale Unabhängigkeit von Morgen”, in “Mut. Eine Frage der Kultur”, Gfk Magazine 02/2020
Davide Bevilacqua, One does not simply make a zoom meeting, Die Versorgerin, June 2020
Bevilacqua, Davide; Centazzo, Giada (eds.), Ricalcolo. Di territori computanti e dei loro attuatori analogici, exhibition catalog, published by Kunstuniversität Linz, Linz, 2020. ISBN: 978-3-901112-89-8
Davide Bevilacqua, “The sun always shines in the Smart City" by Davide Bevilacqua, Die Versorgerin, March 2020
Davide Bevilacqua, The Exhibition as Interface, Master Thesis from the department of Interface Cultures, Kunstuniversität Linz, 2017.
Bevilacqua, Davide, “Mind The Map”, in Gastaldon, Giorgia (ed.), Palinsesti 2016, San Vito al Tagliamento, Comune di San Vito al Tagliamento, 2016 ISBN; 978-88-941354-6-6
Bevilacqua, Davide “A Measurement Measures Measuring Means: Stefan Doepner”, in Gastaldon, Giorgia (ed.), Palinsesti 2015, San Vito al Tagliamento, Comune di San Vito al Tagliamento, 2015 ISBN; 978-88-941354-1-1
Estremo, Vincenzo; Bevilacqua, Davide; Bunn, Sam (eds), Unmade Displays, catalogue of the exhibition, Kunstuniversität Linz, Linz, 2015. ISBN: 978-3-901112-73-7