AFFILIATION
PAN | Palazzo delle Arti Napoli
via dei Mille, 60 – 80122, Napoli, Italia.
Office: +39.081.7958622
Mobile: +39.3355404953
email: laura.bardier@palazzoartinapoli.net
http:// www.palazzoartinapoli.net

PROFILE
Curator and Production Coordinator of cultural events and multimedia products with a wide range of experience in the contemporary art, architecture and design fields. Able to work on own initiative and as part of a team. Proven leadership skills involving managing, developing and motivating teams to achieve their objectives. First-class analytical, design and problem solving skills. Dedicated to maintaining high quality standards.

MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS
> Member of the Advisory Board of the International Forum Fastforward on New Media Arts, second edition co-curated with Julia Draganovic and Marina Vergiani. The participants included some of the world wide most relevant organizations dedicated to the promotion of new media arts. [+]
> Curator of the Exhibition Fastfoward on New Media Art: Robots. The artists included: Robotlab, Ken Goldberg, Kenneth Rinaldo, Leonel Moura, France Cadet, Pascal Glissmann and Martina Höfflin and Christian Faubel. [+]
> Production Coordinator and Information Design of the on-site digital archive of PAN | Palazzo delle Arti Napoli, with more than 5000 images, 2000 textual references and 100 audiovisual documents.
> Co-curator of the International Forum Documentation and Contemporary Art Languages, first edition. The participants included some of the world wide most relevant organizations dedicated to the documentation of all range of contemporary art expressions.

POSITIONS
2006 - present Curator at PAN | Palazzo delle Arti Napoli
2004 - 2006 Production Coordinator at PAN | Palazzo delle Arti Napoli
2002 - 2004 Collaborator of the Cultural Department of the Municipality of Napoli
2001 - 2002 Collaborator at “Santa Verdiana” the exhibition space of the Department of Architecture, Università degli Studi di Firenze
1995 - 1997 Junior collaborator at the architecture bureau Arch. R. Valeta & associates

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: CURATOR

2007
- Second International Forum Fastfoward on New Media Art. Co-curated with Julia Draganovic and Marina Vergiani. (PAN | Palazzo delle Arti Napoli, Napoli)
- Fastfoward on New Media Art: Robots. An exhibition with the artists: Robotlab, Ken Goldberg, Kenneth Rinaldo, Leonel Moura, France Cadet, Pascal and Martina Höfflin and Christian Faubel. (PAN | Palazzo delle Arti Napoli, Napoli)
- Institutionalization of the new media art. A radio program where the interviewees included: Refael Lozano - Hemmer, Sarah Cook, Sabine Himmelsbach, Domenico Quaranta, 0101010111011.org (ART RADIO LIVE, PAN | Palazzo delle Arti Napoli in collaboration with W.P.S.1 of New York at 52a Biennale d' Arte Contemporanea di Venezia)

2006
- First International Forum on Documentation and Contemporary Languages. Co-curated with Marina Vergiani (PAN | Palazzo delle Arti Napoli, Napoli)
- The Children of Uranium / I figli dell’Uranio: a symposium with Peter Greenaway and Prof. Massimo Zuchetti, Nuclear Energy Department of the Facoltà di Ingegneria, Politecnico di Milano. (PAN | Palazzo delle Arti Napoli, Napoli, Italia)
- Incontri del Centro di Documentazione. Serie of events co-curated with Marina Vergiani, Olga Scotto di Vettimo and Maia Confalone. A one week seminar about archiving and documenting contemporary art (PAN | Palazzo delle Arti Napoli, Napoli, Italia)

2005
- Gallerie delle Gallerie. Exhibition co-curated with Marina Vergiani (PAN | Palazzo delle Arti Napoli, Napoli, Italia)
- Strategie per la Soluzione Creativa dei Problemi metropolitani. Seminar in collaboration with the Department of Urban Architecture of the Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italia. (PAN | Palazzo delle Arti Napoli, Napoli, Italia)
- Attenti al PAN and Un Corno Per PAN. Presentation exhibition and award ceremony of the competition for a new name and logo for the Contemporary Art Center Palazzo Roccella, Napoli, Italia. (Castel Nuovo, Napoli. Italia.)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: PRODUCTION COORDINATOR

2006
- Architettura Contemporanea in Brasile. (an exhibition curated by Paolo Giardiello and Marella Santangelo of the Facoltà di Architettura, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II)
- Disegnare nelle città Architettura in Portogallo. (an exhibition curated by Alvaro Siza, photographs by Gabriele Basilico in collaboration with Facoltà di Architettura, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II)
- Antonio Biasiucci – RES. (a documentation project curated by Marina Vergiani for the documentation, digitalization, cataloguing and preservation of the art documents of one of the most relevant photographers based in Napoli.)
- AMO. Performances, lectures, videos and seminars dedicated to Anna Maria Ortese (a project curated by Marina Vergiani for the exhibition, presentation, documentation, digitalization, cataloguing and preservation of the personal documents of one of the most relevant writers based in Napoli, in collaboration with the Archivio di Stato).
- Coreografo Elettronico. Festival Internazionale di videodanza. (a project for the documentation, digitalization, cataloguing and preservation of the video archive of one of the most relevant film festivals in Napoli.)
- The Children of Uranium / I figli dell’Uranio. An audiovisual document of the backstage of the event of theatre, music and installation curated by Peter Greenaway, Saskia Boddeke, and Andrea Liberovici.

2005
- Gallerie delle Gallerie. Curated by Marina Vergiani, sixteen video interviews of the most relevant Art Gallery dealers based in Napoli and a overview of their spaces.
- Incontri internazionale d’arte: Daniel Buren. An audiovisual document of the presentation the art work on site “ Cerchi nell’acqua” by Daniel Buren curated by Graziella Buontempo and Maurizio Barracco of Arin. With Daniel Buren and Achille Bonito Oliva.
- Napoli scenainternazionale: Jan Fabre. An audiovisual document of the keynote conference of the artist Jan Fabre and the curator Dora Stiefelmeier.
- Incontri con gli artisti. Curated by Marina Vergiani, five video interviews of the most relevant Artists based in Napoli and their spaces.
- La notte del minuto. 50 video in contest for the Videominuto Pop TV 2005 Award, curated by Centro d’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci of Prato.
- Doppio Sogno Collateral. Film festival curated by Antonello Centomani in collaboration with Galleria Toledo Teatro Stabile d’Innovazione
- The Giving Person| Il dono dell’artista. Curated by of Marina Vergiani, an audiovisual document of the backstage of the art exhibition “The Giving Person” curated by Lorand Hegyi.

ART EXHIBITIONS, AWARDS AND PUBLICATIONS

2007
- Struttura Conference. Round table with Alessandro Capozzo and Leandro Pisano of Interferenze Festival (San Vincenzo, Italia)

2005
- Sages. (electronic wearable piece exhibited at Cyberfashion Show SIGGRAPH05, Los Angeles, U.S.A.)

2003
- Macchina Per Ingerire/Digerire. (art installation exhibited at Festival Colata ad arte, Napoli, Italia.)

2002
- Exhibition Design Workshop Fellowship . Domus Accademy, Milano, Italia.
- Cow-How (Awarded among the Top 10 exhibition stands of the Design Report magazine, Salone del Mobile Milano - Salone Satellite, Milano, Italia
- Sages ((electronic wearable piece exhibited at Salone del Mobile Milano - Salone Satellite, Milano, Italia)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: EDITING AND GRAPHIC DESIGN

2006
- Q|03 Dedica. Didactic publication for the art exhibition “Dedica” curated by Julia Draganovic.
- Q|02 Carmelo Bene. Didactic publication about the two weeks event related to the cinema, radio and television italian author.

2005
- Q|01 The Giving Person. Didactic publication for the art exhibition “The Giving Person” curated by Lorand Hegyi

2004
- Graphic design L’Espressione. Philosophy Magazine. Cronopio editions.
- Corporate Design Città dei Bambini. Architectural project of the Cultural Department of the Municipality of Napoli.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: INFORMATION DESIGN AND MULTIMEDIA

2005
- Data Pan. L'archivio elettronico del PAN. Art director production coordinator and Interaction design for the on-site digital archive of the Documentation Center of the PAN | Palazzo delle Arti Napoli.

2004
- Educational interactive applet for Città della Scienza, Napoli.
- Production manager and art director for the web site for the PAN | Palazzo delle Arti Napoli. www.palazzoartinapoli.net.
- Web site of the Department of Painting at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Napoli. www.esconlus.it.
- Web site for the “ON|Egnatia. A path of displaced memories” in collaboration with Stalker/ osservatorio nomade and supported by CULTURA 2000 European Comunity. www.egnatia.info.
- Davvero una piazza. Interactivity plan and DVD editing for the architectonic competition by the Municipality of Lastra Signa and the Regione Toscana.
- Ceinge. Interactivity plan and DVD editing for the Genetic Engineering Center of the Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II.

2003
- Città della Scienza ed altri progetti. Interactivity plan, editing and original motion graphics for a double DVD- anthology on the architecture studio“Pica Ciamarra Associati”; Liguori Editore. (Selected for the international festival “Image - Beyond the media”. Firenze, 2003.)
- Web site for the summer cultural program of the Cultural Department of the Municipality of Napoli. www.commune.napoli.it/estateanapoli.
- Rione Terra. Interactivity plan and DVD editing for the architectonic requalification project of “Rione Terra di Pozzuoli”.

2002
Website Web site for 6th Festival of Architecture on video “Beyond Media” of the Department of Architecture, Università degli Studi di Firenze. www.architettura.it/image.
Website Web site for the exhibition space “Santa Verdiana” of the Department of Architecture, Università degli Studi di Firenze. www.architettura.it/image.

2001
- AMP Architecture Media Player. Interaction and info design for the multimedia interface of the exhibition of the video archive of architecture on video (Roma, Catania and Feltre, Italia)
- Web site for the film of “25 watts” directed by P. Stoll and J.P. Rebella. www.25watts.com.

EDUCATION

2006 – date
Master of Fine Arts Program on New Media Curating of the Transart Institute (New York, U.S.A.) in collaboration with Donau Universität (Krems, Austria)

April 2006
TAPE (Training for Audiovisual Preservation in Europe ) Workshop on management, preventive preservation, storage, handling, transfer, cataloguing, description, copyrights, presentation and user requirements of audiovisual collections at the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in Amsterdam. Only a 20 person selection in all Europe for attending the workshop.

September 2002
Exhibition Design workshop, Domus Accademy, Milano, Italia.

1997-2002
Laurea Degree (110/110) (BA) I.S.I.A., Firenze, Italia. (Scuola Superiore di Disegno industriale e design della comunicazione). Main courses and seminars by G.Corretti, A.Van Onck, P.Deganello, D. Santachiara, M. Burkhardt.

July 1997
Comunication Design workshop, Federal University of Recife, Recife, Brazil.

1995-1997
Centro de Diseño Industrial de Montevideo, Uruguay.

January 1993
Summer school of English language, New Castle upon Time, UK.

1979-1994
Licèe Français de Montevideo, French Baccalaurèat (BAC D - Scientific specialization); High School Diploma of Uruguay (Architecture specialization). Montevideo, Uruguay.

SKILLS

Extensive experience in graphic design, cd-rom, video, dvd, and website editing. Operative Systems: MacOS. Windows.
Software: Office Suite, Macromedia Studio (Flash, Freehand, Dreamweaver, Fireworks), Adobe Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign, Premiere), QuarkXPress, After Effects, Final Cut Pro, Dvd Studio Pro, AutoCad.

LANGUAGES

Spanish (mother tongue) | Italian (fluent) | English (fluent) | French (fluent)