PhD Researcher in partnership with Royal College of Arts and Tate, London
Sami Petri Itavuori (he/they) is a Finnish-British researcher and cultural programer based in London, UK. He holds a BA in European and German Studies from King’s College London and a MRes in Art Theory and Philosophy from the University of the Arts London.
Interested in the politics of representation, technology and culture, Sami’s practice-oriented research explores the implications of digital and networked technologies on visual culture, museum practices and audience engagement in a post-globalisation context. Their current collaborative PhD project “Generative AI and the Art Museum: The Tate Online Collection of British Art, Audiences and Visuality.” (CSNI/Royal College of Art/Tate) assesses the effects of text-to-image generative AI on art museums and their digital collections.
His research is informed by his engagement in community-centering cultural projects that aim to promote alternative pedagogies, skill-sharing, self-learning and user autonomy at the intersection of art and digital literacy. He is currently on the board-nominating committee of Swedish not-for-profit cultural association Anrikningsverket and works on the production group of the experimental music and arts festival Norbergfestival.