Nita Sturiale
Artist in Agrigento, Italy
Nita Sturiale
Artist in Agrigento, Italy
Nita's art explores human cognition, social networking, pyschogeography, and physical phenomena in relation to human activity. Most recent projects have investigated the psychology, biology, and spirituality of motherhood. She often flirts with new and experimental technologies. She is Professor and Department Chair in the Studio for Interrelated Media at the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston. She has exhibited her work online and internationally, including the Boston Cyberarts Festival, Cambridge River Arts Festival, Consciousness Reframed International Conference in the UK, in China, Italy, San Francisco and New York. As a Jacob K. Javits Fellow, she simultaneously earned a MEd from Harvard Graduate School of Education, and a MFA from Tufts University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. She is included in Stephen Wilson’s book, Information Arts (MIT Press, 2001). During the summer of 2014, Nita launched the first "Regali Artists Residency in Sicily", a collaboration with Farm Cultural Park in Favara, Sicily. Nita and her husband, Giuseppe Taibi, import the family’s Sicilian olive oil, Olio Taibi. They live outside of Boston and in Agrigento Italy with their 2 daughters, 2 guinea pigs, and 1 dog.