Pita Arreola

Hubs, Nodes and Networks: a new history of British digital art

I am Curator of Digital Art at the V&A, and the co-founder of Off Site Project. Off Site Project is a curatorial platform founded in 2017, which offers opportunities for international emerging new media talent through exhibitions, events and residencies. Through my curatorial role at the V&A, I have developed projects that have produced new knowledge on historical artworks from the digital art collection and on the connections between pioneering and emerging generations of digital artists. As an independent curator, I have promoted and supported the work of over 120 digital artists working across the UK, Europe, Asia, Middle East, USA and Latin America. Previously, I held positions with Furtherfield Gallery and had a career in Cultural PR & Communications, where I worked with international organisations including Phillips Auction, Museo Jumex and Gallery Weekend.

Selected publications and exhibitions

Arreola, P., Gardner, C. and Lenz, M. (eds), Digital Art: 1960s to Now, V&A / Thames & Hudson, forthcoming 2024

‘Data is the New Gold: Digital Art in the 2000s’ in Digital Art: 1960s to Now, V&A / Thames & Hudson, forthcoming 2024

Speculations of Capture, multimedia commission and display by Morehshin Allahyari for the V&A’s Meta Media Gallery, co-curated with Catherine Troiano, forthcoming September 2024

Terra regis/terra terminis, multimedia commission by Christopher MacInness, Off Site Project and Phoenix Leicester, 2023

I am Surrounded by Me, online group exhibition, Distant.gallery and Off Site Project, 2022