Caterina Tomeo, art historian and sound studies scholar, combines research with critical and curatorial practice. Her work focuses on Contemporary Art, with a particular interest in transdisciplinary approaches and research in the fields of Media Art and Sonic Art.
She is Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Architecture of Sapienza University of Rome and Lecturer at Treccani Accademia School of Management and at the Sole 24 Ore Business School in Rome. She previously taught at the Rome University of Fine Arts (RUFA), where she served as Head of the Department of Design and Applied Arts – School of New Technologies of Art, and as Coordinator of the Master’s Degree Programme in Multimedia Arts and Design.
She has served as Co-director of Spring Attitude Festival (Arts & Media) and as curator for Videocittà Festival and Romaeuropa Festival. She is the Italian representative for the Raster Media label (formerly Raster-Noton).
She is co-founder of the Sound Studies Forum, the first interdisciplinary research group dedicated to sound studies in Italy.
She is an author for Castelvecchi. Her most recent publications include Sound Art. Ascoltare è come vedere (2017); Sonic Arts. Tra esperienza percettiva e ascolto attivo (2019); L’elettronica è donna. Media, corpi, pratiche transfemministe e queer, edited by C. Attimonelli and C. Tomeo (2022); and VOICE. Il fenomeno della voce tra immateriale e carnale (2025).
Among her major essays are C. Tomeo, “Dance, Dance, Dance,” in Our Vision Touched the Sky, edited by L. Barone and A. Amendola, Rogas Edizioni, 2021; and C. Tomeo, “Post-punk and Electronic Music. Genres in Dialogue Beyond the Bounds of the Law,” in Feeling/No Feelings. Fenomenologia del Punk e post Punk, edited by L. Barone and A. Amendola, Cambridge Publishing, 2026.
