Elmira Sharipova

Elmira Sharipova is a scholar of contemporary art and aesthetics whose research explores the intersection of artistic practices, ecological theory, and posthumanist philosophy in the Anthropocene. She completed her PhD in Visual, Performing and Media Arts at the University of Bologna (2024, summa cum laude), with a dissertation examining how contemporary art reconfigures human-environment relationships through new theoretical paradigms. Her work engages critically with Actor-Network Theory (Bruno Latour), Object-Oriented Ontology (Graham Harman), and agential realism (Karen Barad), analyzing how artists like Pierre Huyghe, Tomás Saraceno, and climate activist networks deploy non-anthropocentric frameworks to address ecological crisis. Her research spans from land art and ecological practices (Piero Gilardi, Hans Haacke) to bio-technological environments and algorithmic aesthetics. Sharipova publishes across Italian, English, and Russian academic contexts. Her recent work includes articles in Piano B. Arti e Culture Visive on climate activism's material-discursive practices, in Moscow Art Magazine on AI and monstrosity theory, and contributions to edited volumes on ecological imaginaries in contemporary art. She is particularly interested in how speculative and participatory artistic practices generate alternative modes of interspecies coexistence and environmental justice. Currently, she is developing research on quantum aesthetics, Russian ecological art practices, and the relationship between sound, deterritorialization, and environmental consciousness in contemporary art.