AHRC Block Grant-funded PhD studentship 2011-14. Marialaura Ghidini is a curator and writer. For her PhD with CRUMB, she is researching in the field of online curating with a specific interest in the theory and practice of artists and curators operating through web-based platforms and in between the online and offline dimensions.

She is founder and director of the web-based curatorial platform or-bits.com, a project devoted to promoting practices and dialogues across and beyond media and exploring the creative and critical possibilities of the web as a language, medium and subject.
Since 2010 Marialaura has been co-curator at Grand Union (Birmingham), for which she has organised the residency programme Search Engine (2011) and a series of collaborative projects, ranging from group shows to sound events and performances.