Michela Pelusio is an Italian artist, who has created and exhibited installations and performances across Europe, Asia and America. She creates immersive experiences utilizing space,light,matter and sound,producing sensations of being present in an environment, that is magic and non-recordable. Her research involves the exploration of human perception, the sense of the place, nature and culture, art and science.

Michela was born in Italy, Viareggio. She studied sculpture at the Academy of Fine Art of Carrara, and got a Master of Music degree from the ArtScience department of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts and the Royal Conservatory of Den Haag. She was teacher at the ArtScience Interfaculty in Netherlands teaching in courses Synesthetics, and Geniul loci for the bachelor and master students. She organized several international research groups and workshop with her students at the Biennale of Carrara, and the Dutch NIKI institute in Florence, at the Lorentz Center in Leiden.

Now she collaborates with F.O.R.T.H the Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas, she lives in Crete and started ResidenceSEA there, an artist residence project for artists who are engaged in long-term creative dialogues with scientists.

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