Tommaso Durante is a teacher, a researcher, and a professional, award winning visual artist. He moved from Italy to Australia in 2001 under a visa for distinguished talent for art.

Dr Tommaso Durante describes himself as a visual activist. He is a Lecturer in Media and Communications in the School of Culture and Communication, Faculty of Arts, at the University of Melbourne. He has taught Media and Communication at the University of Melbourne from 2019 to the present, Global Studies at RMIT University in Melbourne from 2014 to 2018, and International Relations online at the Centre for Global Politics at Freie Universitat Berlin, Germany, from 2017 to 2019.

As a Visiting Scholar, he has taught Methodologies in Researching Globalization at the Global and European Studies Institute, GESI, at Leipzig University, Germany, where in 2017 he was awarded the Erasmus Mundus Global Studies scholarship.

For the last decade, he has taught, researched, and written at the intersection of the aesthetics of the global imaginary, visual culture, and the philosophy of technology. He is the curator of The Visual Archive Project of the Global Imaginary, 2007 to present, and of Global Visual Politics, 2017 to present.