Silvio Lorusso

Silvio Lorusso is a Lecturer at Lusófona University, affiliated with both its Lisboa and Porto campuses. His work critically examines the intersections of design, digital culture, and socio-economic structures, with a focus on creative labor precarity and media theory.

Research Focus

Lorusso's research explores the critical dimensions of design practice, including its limitations and socio-political implications. Primary areas include:

• Design Criticism: Analyzing design's role in perpetuating or challenging power structures.
• Publishing Studies: Investigating independent publishing as resistance.
• Digital Labor: Examining entrepreneurial precarity in creative industries.
• Media Archaeology: Tracing technological evolution's cultural impact.

His approach blends theory with practice, often through exhibitions and digital platforms.

Publications Overview

Recent works (2023-2024) demonstrate consistent engagement with:

• Critiques of AI's cultural production (e.g., AI aesthetics as "kitsch").
• Decolonial and political dimensions of typography.
• The paradoxes of publishing in post-digital contexts.
• Neoliberal pressures on design education and labor.

Publications span academic journals, books, and experimental formats like zines.

Artistic & Curatorial Practice

Lorusso extends research into exhibitions such as:

• Never Shall We Labour (Centre Civic Can Felipa, 2021)
• Open Codes. Networked Commons (Nam June Paik Art Center, 2021)
• Fleeting Media. Publishing Post-Photography (2021)

These projects investigate materiality, labor visibility, and digital ephemerality.