Tommaso Durante is a visual artist and a researcher. He moved from Italy to Australia in 2001 under a visa for ‘distinguished talent’ for art. Tommaso’s artistic production deals with a wide range of media, from sculpture-installations to artist’s books. He has an extensive international exhibition record in public and private galleries and museums, dating back to 1970s, which includes the creation of both permanent and temporary public artworks. His work is represented in public and private collections. From a broadly theoretical point of view, his academic research addresses the intersection of the social (global) imaginary with aesthetics and ideology through the lens of social and political theory. More specifically he is interested in theorising aesthetics of change through visual images, in developing critical approaches to visual flows and understanding the relationship between nation-state, ideological power and globalization processes. His research combines critical theoretical analysis with fieldwork and case study methods. He adopts a transdisciplinary approach, drawing on a background in art history and theory, extended to ‘global iconology’. Dr Tommaso Durante is Associated Lecturer in Global Media Studies in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He has previously taught Global Studies at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT University), Australia, at the Centre for Global Politics of Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, and Methodologies in researching globalization at the Global and European Studies Institute (GESI), Leipzig University, Germany. He is also the author of Global Visual Politics (2017-). His published research is archived by ORCiD.