Francesco Manacorda is tutor in the Curating Contemporary Art department at the Royal College of Art, London, and a writer and a freelance curator based in London. In 2004 he curated the exhibition The Mythological Machine at the Mead Gallery, Warwick University, on the impact of mass-media images, and in 2005 A Certain Tendency in Representation - Cineclub at Thomas Dane, Thomas Dane Gallery, London, and he organised the symposium Ecology and Artistic Practice for the programme Arts&Ecology at the Royal Society of Arts, London. The same year he also was curatorial correspondent for the Turin Triennial The Pantagruel Syndrome. In 2006 he curated Subcontingent - The Indian Subcontinent in Contemporary Art at the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin and Satellites at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York. He just published a monograph on Maurizio Cattelan (2006, Electa), and regularly contributes to Flash Art, Metropolis M and Domus.