Riccardo Silano
artist designer media archaeologist
Profile
Riccardo Silano (b. 1982, Novi Ligure, Italy) is an Italian artist, designer, and media archaeologist. His work explores imaginary timelines where technology, nature, and humanity collide and transform each other.
Creating assemblages that resist hierarchical organization, he challenges binary distinctions as well as the human role within media ecosystems that have never been fully realized or are yet to come.
Growing up in the analog era, his fascination with media began as a child among the pixels of cathode-ray TVs and the sounds discovered while twisting radio tuning knobs. After studying audiovisual humanities, he began his career as a theatre technician before transitioning into commercial photography and video production.
From 2012 onwards, he established himself as a freelance graphic and motion designer, later founding and managing both a web agency and a local television station. The closure of his TV station in 2019 marked a creative pivot, as he repurposed obsolete broadcast equipment into video art installations. This metamorphosis of old media into new forms led to deeper artistic exploration, culminating in his pioneering work with generative AI beginning in 2021.
Today, Silano balances his artistic practice with innovation management, mapping the smooth and striated spaces where media technologies intersect with human experience and revealing the immanent potential of media to continuously transform and be transformed.
As a board member and marketing communication manager at META, an education NGO based in Monza since 1991, he applies his artistic expertise and technological insights to drive digital mentoring and social innovation initiatives.
His academic journey includes a Bachelor’s degree in Communication Sciences and a Master’s degree in Multimedia Production Management. He has extensive freelance experience in theatrical and TV production, graphic and motion design, photography and filmmaking.
Riccardo Silano is represented in Switzerland by STORIES.