POLITTICO VISITING FELLOW 2023/2024. Alicia Imperiale’s scholarly work examines the interplay between technology and art, architecture, representation, and fabrication in postwar Italian art and architecture. She authored works such as: New Flatness: Surface Tension in Digital Architecture (Birkhauser, 2000); "Seminal Space: Getting under the Digital Skin", in RE:SKIN (MIT, 2006); "Organic Italy? The Troubling Case of Rinaldo Semino", in Perspecta 43 (2010);  "Organic Architecture as an Open Work", in Zevi’s Architects: History and Counter-History from Postwar to the End of the 20th Century (Quodlibet, 2018); "A prehistory of parametric architecture" (Log 44, 2018). Her book manuscript Organic Architecture as an Open Work: The aesthetics of experimentation in art, technology & architecture in postwar Italy is based upon her dissertation at Princeton University. In 2016-17 she was a Cornell University Society for the Humanities Fellow, where she conducted research for a new book Machine Consequences: Origins of Output. Her work has been supported by a Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts Research Grant.