Federica Ciotti using a digital tablet to draw, in studio with a black background.

I am an artist and facilitator with an academic background in linguistics and semiotics.

My practice combines my interest for visual art, humanities, and technology, resulting in parallel and complementary lines of work.

I use traditional and digital media to document and interpret people's experiences in various group settings, such as workplaces and learning environments. Past work includes projects with LGBTQ+ communities, neurodivergent children and adults, migrants, inmates, fostered young people, the elderly, sexual abuse/human trafficking survivors, and people living with HIV.

In parallel, my studio practice is focused on drawing, as both a creative and cognitive process.

As part of the DYCP (Developing Your Creative Practice) program by the Arts Council England, I’ve been researching, developing and testing new ways to make engaged work by integrating computational methodologies and techniques into my practice, in order to open up new horizons for interdisciplinary collaboration and engagement through creativity.

EDUCATION

MA Computational Arts, Goldsmiths University, London, UK (in course)

MPhil Semiotics, University of Bologna, IT. 2009

BA Communication Sciences, University of Bologna, IT. 2005

TALKS

Upcoming

Catalyst Symposium 2025, Berlin, DE.

Past

“World AIDS Day 2024”, Red Ribbon Living Well. 2024

“Building qualitative data as a community”, Peckham Festival of Creative Computing. 2024

“Data Meets Cultural Practice”, Community Research Exchange (CRX) launch, The Brixton Project. 2024

COLLECTIVE SHOWS

2025

Goldsmiths MA/MFA Computational Arts Pop-Up Show. London, UK.

2024

This is why the Whole remain Open […], St James Hatcham. London, UK.

Triangle Studio Open House. London, UK

2023

Unmasked: Real Stories of Nursing in COVID-19, RCN Library and Heritage Centre, London, UK. Collective

2022

Semiotics and Beyond, The Holy Art Gallery, London, UK.

2021

Athens Open Art, Art Number 23 Gallery, Athens, Greece.

I+P Open 2021, Depford Does Art, London, UK.

2017

Code Liberation, London Design Festival, V&A Museum, London, UK.

2016

CreativeConnection Open Studios, Lighthouse Studios, London, UK.

2015

Miscellanea Art Club, Vauxhall Community Center, London, UK.

2014

Hackney Wicked festival, London, UK. Live drawing performance, London, UK.