A brief conversation with Peter Purg one of the scientists who has attended to Resonances IV SciArt Summer School at Joint Research Centre in Ispra, Italy.

> Peter Purg currently leads the New Media module in the Digital/Media Arts and Practices graduate//postgraduate programme at the School of Arts, University of Nova Gorica, where he acts as Associate Professor, projects coordinator as well as expert across realms of digital culture and media. Since December 2021 he is Acting Dean of the School of Humanities. Next to his research and artistic interests mentioned above, he is active in the field of cultural and higher education policymaking, assessment and quality assurance. He was centrally involved in Go!2025, the winning of the European Capital of Culture title by Nova Gorica and Gorizia twin towns on the Slovenian-Italian border. With an artivist background, Peter Purg is co-funder of the cross-regional Xcenter hub of creative practices, joining art, entrepreneurship and community. He leads the Art-Science-Technology module at the School of Arts and he lead the MASTmodule.eu project that developed it. Having curated the 20th international contemporary art festival Pixxelpoint 2019, his scientific inquiries lately include media arts pedagogy, post-growth and media ecology.

Curated by Francesca Rotta
Image by Vidas Daudaravicius