Tommaso Durante is a teacher, a researcher, and a professional, award-winning visual artist. He moved from Italy to Australia in 2001 under a visa for ‘distinguished talent’ for art. Dr Tommaso Durante is a ‘visual activist’ and Lecturer in Media and Communications in the School of Culture and Communication, Faculty of Arts, at the University of Melbourne. He has taught Media and Communication at the University of Melbourne (2019-present), Global Studies at the School of Global, Urban and Social Studies at RMIT University, in Melbourne (2014-2018), and International Relations (online) at the Centre for Global Politics at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany (2017-2019). As a Visiting Scholar, he has also taught Methodologies in Researching Globalization at the Global and European Studies Institute (GESI) at the Leipzig University, Germany, where in 2017 he was awarded the Erasmus Mundus Global Studies scholarship. For the last decade, he has taught, researched, and written at the intersection of the aesthetics of the global imaginary, visual culture, and the philosophy of technology. His most recent publications include Global Iconology: Analyzing and Interpreting Cultural Transformations Under Present Conditions; Globalization and Visual Rhetoric: The Rise of a Global Media Order? in Globalization: Past, Present, Future.; and Global Challenges and Visual Strategies of Domination. Revista de Estudios Globales y Arte Contemporáneo. He is the curator of The Visual Archive Project of the Global Imaginary (2007-present) and Global Visual Politics (2017-present). He is also the author of Global Visual Politics (2017-). His published research is archived by ORCiD.