Administration

AMY CURTIS has been working in the administration of IDSVA since its founding in 2006. Prior to that, she worked as a fashion designer. She ran her own custom design studio for seven years, designing and producing couture wedding dresses.

SILVIA MAZZINI is a philosopher and theatre author who works on the intersection of Aesthetics and Political Philosophy. She has published on the subject of Art and Politics in Pasolini, Bloch, and Vattimo, as well as on tragic and comic thought and community theatre. Currently she is writing on the Philosophy of Poverty. Before joining IDSVA, Mazzini was research fellow at the Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry and worked as Assistant Professor at Humboldt University, where she also obtained her PhD, at the Berlin University of the Arts and at the University of Groningen (The Netherlands).

JEANNE MOORE (IDSVA Alumna, 2023) is a curator and art educator in Detroit, MI, where she co-owns MOSAIC Productions, L3C, and OFFICE SPACE Gallery. In addition to her curatorial and gallery work, Jeanne has taught courses and designed curriculums in modern and contemporary art and visual culture at Wayne State University, the College for Creative Studies and the University of Windsor.

SIMONETTA MORO is a visual artist and scholar with a focus on painting, drawing and mapping practices. Her work has been exhibited internationally; publications include Mapping Paradigms in Modern and Contemporary Art: Poetic Cartography (Routledge, 2021) and The Vattimo Dictionary (Edinburgh University Press, 2023). Moro holds a PhD in Fine Arts, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK; an MA in European Fine Arts, Winchester School of Art, UK; and a BFA in Painting, Accademia di Belle Arti, Bologna, Italy. Born in Italy, she currently lives between New York City and northern Italy.

JESSICA MYER earned her MFA in 2013. She has an extensive background in fine art gallery management and keeps an illustration and fine art practice at her home studio in Portland, Maine.

ELINA STAIKOU is a philosopher and transdisciplinary scholar, who has taught the history of ideas, philosophy and liberal arts at Goldsmiths, University of London and the University of Winchester, UK. Her research is focused on deconstruction, critical maternities, the life sciences and the ethico-aesthetics of decomposition. She is the author of Deconstruction at Home: Metaphors of Travel and Writing and of articles on philosophy, literature and biomedicine. She is a member of the editorial board of the journal Derrida Today and has participated in numerous international conferences. She has participated in several IDSVA symposia with talks on migration, hospitality, the ethics of eating, and the Nitrogen Anthropocene.