BIO
Born in Italy in 1991, Tommasino Maderna trained in music and philosophy before turning to advanced studies in logic. He earned his diploma in Piano at 17, studied Classical Composition and Philosophy, and later pursued Logic in the Netherlands. In 2024, he completed his PhD in Philosophy at the University of St Andrews. From 2024 to 2025, he taught Logic, Philosophy, and the Ethics of AI at the University of Edinburgh as a Teaching Fellow. He is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the University of St Andrews, contributing to the EPSRC research project Instruments of Unity: the Many Ways of Being One.
Maderna’s artistic practice unfolds at the edges of machine vision and human gesture, investigating how technology mediates human perception and generates new forms of experience. Working across audiovisual media, he creates audiovisual works that behave like sensing organisms — recording, misreading, and reinterpreting fragments of humanity through computational logic. Influenced by his training in music and philosophy, Maderna’s work approaches machines as co-creative agents—participants in a speculative, shared space of image, sound, and thought. His environments combine digital and analogue signals into fluid ecologies, where perception becomes unstable and meaning shimmers at the threshold, offering to the viewers glimpses into alternative ways of understanding themselves and the world around them.
CV
Born in 1991 in Alatri, IT
Resides and works in St Andrews, UK
Education:
2002-2008: Second Level Academic Diploma in Piano at Conservatorio L. Refice, Frosinone, IT
2012-2016: BA in Philosophy at Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, IT
2016-2018: MSc in Logic at ILLC University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, NL
2019-2024: PhD in Philosophy at University of St Andrews, St Andrews, UK
Employment:
2025-2028: Postdoctoral Researcher (Metaphysics & Logic) at University of St Andrews, UK
2024-2025: Teaching Fellow (Ethics of AI, Metaphysics, Logic) at University of Edinburgh, UK
Plublications (Philosophy):
2025: On Two Explanatory Identity Criteria: One for Individuals, the Other for Properties (With J J Snodgrass). Analysis, Online First
2025: Reference Without Identity. Thought: A Journal of Philosophy 12 (2): 82-89
2024: Identity and Extensionality in Boffa Set Theory (With N Maia). Philosophia Mathematica 32 (1): 115-123
2023: Why I am not an Anti-Haecceitist. Synthese 201 (2):1-14
Plublications (Art):
2025: I piatti della tradizione di Pairc-na-lee [catalogue introduction]. Bordeaux Edizioni, IT
Features:
2026: Artist Closeup Magazine, June Edition N.43
Exhibitions:
2026: Liquida Photofestival 2026 (group exhibition), Real Collegio Carlo Alberto, Moncalieri, IT
2026: Video Arte: Metamorphosis (group exhibition), Con/Temporary Spaces, Turin, IT
2026: Contemporaries 2026 (group exhibition), Domio Gallery, Online
2026: Saga (group exhibition), Villa Comunale, Frosinone, IT
2026: Epiphyllum Prize (group exhibition), Carceri di Sant’Ambrogio, Ferentino, IT
2026: Level 0.5 (online group exhibition), A Space Gallery, New York, USA
2026: Babele IV (group exhibition), Spazio Musa, Torino, IT
2026: Endless (group exhibition), Emerging Art-Sharing, Fermento Festival Edition, Castello di Urgnano, Bergamo, IT
2026: Epiphyllum Prize x Biennale d’arte di Isola del Liri (group exhibition), Isola del Liri, IT
2026: Nothing Stays Like It Was (group exhibition), A Space Gallery, New York, USA
2026: REALM (online group exhibition)The Alchemical Art Gallery, Melbourne, AU, Online
2026: PhygitArt VII - Hyperreality (group exhibition), Villa Graziani, San Giustino, IT
2026: Still Creatures (group exhibition), Istituto Beata Lucia, Narni, IT
2026: International Biennial Festival of Portraits (group exhibition), International Gallery of Portraits, Tuzla, BIH
2026: A VISTA (group exhibition), Neowise Studio, Roma, IT
2026: DRIFT (group exhibition), Zerofeedback’s Space MONO, Firenze, IT
Forthcoming Exhibitions:
2026: 1st International Metaverse Art Expo (group exhibition), ARTLiTTLE, Online
Performances:
2026: sMTHng_fr((omt))he:he@@RT — Projection on Pesaro’s Sphere, Pesaro, IT
2026: test[AMEN]t — Screening in Morelia, Michoacán, MEX
2026: Frammenti di Architettura Aliena / Imaginary Latent Spaces — Talk at the University of St Andrews (Scotland)
Recognitions:
2026: Selected — MATE Festival 2026 (Coimbra, Portugal)
2026: BBA 360 Prize — Long List
2026: Premio MyLifeInArt, APS Ichor
2026: Premio Artware
2026: Winner — Monthly Future of Film Awards: Best Experimental Film
2026: Winner — Monthly Future of Film Awards: Best Super Short Film
2026: Winner — Monthly Future of Film Awards: Best Director Super Short Film
2026: Semi-Finalist — Brussels World Film Festival
2026: Semi-Finalist — Monte Carlo Film Festival
2026: Semi-Finalist — Paris International Short Festival
2026: Semi-Finalist — Oslo Independent Film Festival
2026: Semi-Finalist — Munich Short Film Awards
2026: Semi-Finalist — Palermo International Film Festival
2026: Official Selection — London Vision Film Festival
2026: Official Selection — Alpine International Film Festival
2026: Official Selection — Check Out Film Festival
2026: Official Selection — Manchester Lift-Off Film Festival
2025: Quarter-Finalist — Indie Leeds