Speculative Violence

Donatella Della Ratta is a writer, performer, and curator specializing in networked technologies and generative AI, with a focus on the Arabic speaking world. Currently Associate Professor of Communication at John Cabot University, Rome, she is a former Affiliate of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. Donatella is the author of Shooting a Revolution: Visual Media and Warfare in Syria , and a co-editor of The Aesthetics and Politics of the Online Self: Exploring Networked Identities . From 2007 to 2013 she served as the Arab world community manager for the international organization Creative Commons. She has curated several international art and film programs, including Syria Off Frame in collaboration with the Luciano Benetton Foundation, Venice, 2015. She is co-founder and board member of SyriaUntold, recipient of the Digital Communities Award at Ars Electronica 2014, and a member of the advisory board of the Cinema Futures initiative at Locarno International Film Festival.