Cristina Baldacci is an associate professor in History of Contemporary Art at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, where she is also affiliated with THE NEW INSTITUTE Centre for Environmental Humanities (NICHE). At NICHE she is the PI of the Ecological Art Practices research cluster. Her research interests focus on the archive as a metaphor and art form; the practices of appropriation, montage, reenactment; the theory of images and visual culture; the challenges of art history, art practices and archives in the Anthropocene. Among her most recent publications are: the monograph Impossible Archives: An Obsession of Contemporary Art (Italian edition only, 2016); the article “Re-Enacting Ecosystems: Jakob Kudsk Steensen’s Environmental Storytelling in Virtual and Augmented Reality,” Piano B. Arti e Culture Visive, 6.1 (2021): 67–86; the co-edited volumes Over and Over and Over Again: Reenactment Strategies in Contemporary Arts and Theory (with C. Nicastro, A. Sforzini, 2022), On Reenactment: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools (with S. Franco, 2022), and Venice and the Anthropocene: An Ecocritical Guide (with S. Bassi, L. De Capitani, P.D. Omodeo). She is the co-editor (with E. Guaraldo) of “Archiving the Anthropocene: New Taxonomies Between Art and Science,” a special double issue of Holotipus journal (2023).