RESUME
Since 2002 Laura Bardier collaborates with the Cultural Department of the Municipality of Napoli to develop the idea and the project of the first civic center for contemporary art.. Her work is related to the recommended approaches and strategies for preserving contemporary artworks or parts of artworks, that should be a public shared resource collectively and continuously updated. On March 2004 the PAN | Palazzo delle Arti Napoli was inaugurated. From the 2004 to the 2006 Laura Bardier worked as Production Coordinator, at PAN | Palazzo delle Arti Napoli, to create a model for a distributed network of artists, critics and theorists, integrating media production with training in theory and research. She aims to develop a container for documenting the history of contemporary languages, where to produce an ongoing construction of archives, services, tools and products of information and communication for the public access. Specifically, her work focuses on designing, developing and coordinating the entire process of digitalization, cataloguing and indexing of the archive of the PAN | Palazzo delle Arti Napoli. From the 2006, her currently position is Junior Curator.

Born in 1976, Montevideo, Uruguay, after high school studies at a French school, Laura Bardier moved to Firenze, Italia, where she graduated in Communication Design. Her main interests are in history, theory, and criticism of contemporary art, architecture and design; innovative museum practice; creation and maintenance of exhibitions; strategic museum management covering the full range of activities of contemporary art centers. Since the beginning of College studies, she has been also interested in the problems of the documentation of contemporary art: methodology, terminology, conservation and the possible strategies and perspectives for the future by using digital technologies in contemporary museums. In particular her personal research is directed towards the possibilities of audiovisual media as a vehicle for exhibition, promotion and communication, and as an interpretative tool in contemporary art museums.
She is also completing a low frequency MFA in New Media Curating at the Transart Institute (New York, U.S.A.) in collaboration with Donau Universitat (Krems, Austria).