Emma Scarafiotti (b. 1996) is a mixed media artist whose practice spans video art, installation, performance, and sound. Initially trained as a photographer and performer, Scarafiotti later found her fullest form of expression through audiovisual art, where she explores the intersections of storytelling, technology, and the body.
After graduating with honors in Design & Art Direction from the London College of Communication, she completed a Master’s degree in New Technologies for the Visual Arts, deepening her engagement with hybrid forms of artistic creation.
Scarafiotti’s work investigates the possibilities of the post-human body and the intersections between species, layering a documentary scientific approach with fictional and theatrical narratives. Often marrying analog tools with emerging technologies, she creates immersive works that inhabit a space between realism and imagination. Her subjects are typically outsiders—disenchanted individuals who exist on the margins of society, whose stories she brings into vivid, empathetic focus.
Her artworks have been exhibited at Careof Milano, REA Fair, and the Recontemporary Foundation in Torino, as well as internationally at Ennova Langfang Museum in China and in New York. Her short films have been selected for numerous national and international experimental video festivals, including PANORAMICA23 (Visualcontainer), Thunderdance Film Festival (UK), Cinedans (Amsterdam), and the Toronto Experimental Dance and Music Festival. In 2023, Scarafiotti was awarded the Recontemporary Art Prize, receiving first prize as the leading emerging Italian video artist.
Through her evolving, multidisciplinary practice, Emma Scarafiotti continues to push the boundaries of narrative, form, and human identity in the digital age. Learn more here.
My vision for the future is one of radical hybridization, where the boundaries between species dissolve, and a new form of coexistence emerges among humans, non-human animals, plants, and other living organisms. I imagine a world free from gender stereotypes, where identity is fluid and expansive, and where the full spectrum of human potential is embraced through the dynamic interplay between nature and technology. I believe in the transformative power of technology not as a tool of dominance, but as a bridge. A bridge that narrows the perceived gap between humans and other species. A future where we no longer see ourselves as separate from the natural world, but as deeply interconnected. I envision a time when we can understand, and perhaps even speak the languages of plants and animals, unlocking new dimensions of empathy, communication, and shared existence. This is the world I seek to explore through my art: a future shaped not by separation, but by connection, exchange, and mutual evolution.
Future of Humanity at Davos: Redefining the Boundaries of Humanity brings together visionary thinkers, collaborative innovators, pioneering creators, and renowned artists, united to explore bold new frontiers in human evolution, technology, and ethical progress.
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