Manuel Grillo @ Rome Art Week
Manuel Grillo
He is an artist, designer and professor. Founder of nodelab.it research center on art, science and new technologies.
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He is an artist, designer and lecturer.

Born in Tivoli on 4/15/1987, he graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, specializing first in painting and then in multimedia and technological arts, with a thesis on the poetics of anthropologist Gragory Bateson and multitouch interactive technology. In 2016 he obtained a regional diploma as a Programmer Analyst .

In 2018 he founded Studio Grillo Designcurating integrated communication campaigns for public and private entities.

Since 2019, he has been collaborating with the Accademia Dei Romani directed by Gerardo Lo Russo, former director of the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome (2007-2013). Also in 2019, he participated in the international project Art Mogao Caves, which featured 26 3D printed sculptures installed along the Silk Road.

In 2020, the coordination of In/Out Art does not stop, an online exhibition sponsored by the Lazio Region.

2021 saw participation in Resistart, the winning project of the regional Lazio Street Art Competition, creating an augmented reality mural on the historical memory of the municipality of Guidonia Montecelio.

As a lecturer, he has participated in several workshops of the Accademia Dei Romani. Among them, “Art and technology. The State of the Digital Art in Italy” for Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts (China),“Seeing is Thinking” online seminar for Qingdhao School (China). Since 2022, teaching for the second-level master’s degree program “New technologies for communication, cultural management and art history teaching: for immersive and multisensory enjoyment of Cultural Heritage” – MANT at theUniversity ofRome Tor Vergata.

He has exhibited in Italy, Egypt and China, participating in the First International Symposium of Contemporary Art in Chongqing (2019).

Currently his research work questions the relationship between Man, Environment & Technology.


Events at Rome Art Week
CHEMICAL AFFINITIES
20 Oct 2025 | 18:00
MEETING AND DISCUSSION BETWEEN PROFESSORS AND STUDENTS OF THE ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS OF ROME.
Free access
Organizer Guglielmo Zamparelli
Event
CENTRO EUCLIDE
Via Flaminia Nuova, 834-836
HEXAMETERS
24-25 Oct 2025
Six artists, six metrics, six trajectories intertwine in a single exhibition experience: a laboratory of visions, a comparison between figurative art, perceptive experimentation, and new technologies, from Nature to metaphysics, to sustainability.
Free access
Vernissage Friday 24 Oct 2025 | 18:30-21:30
Organizer Scilla Maris
Exposition
Sinergie Solidali - RMQ17
via Volsinio 21
condivisione
GRAPHICS FOR POSTS
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