Contact 
︎ gabriella@difeola.com  ︎ Instagram  ︎ Linkedin   Orcid: 0000-0001-5802-2032

Education
MFA, Design, University of Gothenburg, 2020-2024
BA, Media, aesthetics and cultur, University of Gothenburg, 2015-2018
Painting, Göteborgs Konstskola,  2010-2012
Estet, Helsjöns folkhögskola, 2007-2008

courses
Experience design: sustainability, inclusion and collaboration, HDK, 2026
Interactive Technology for Theatre,University of Skövde, 2020
Animation, HDK, 2019
Art in Digital Environments, Umeå University, 2017
Preparatory course in programming and computational thinking, KTH, 2017

Exibition
group exhibition

2026 One eARTh Festival, Vetenskapsfestivalen
2025 Tingens Eko, Formcenter Väst
2025 CAMPFIRE, PlayLab
2024 Positionings, Graduation exhibition, HDK-Valand
2024 child remains- an immersive conversation about grief, Hidden sites
2024 child remains, Lilla Änggården

2024 MOURNING A STRANGER, Galleri Rotor

2020 Gestaltande Animation,  Atalante
2019 Pengar, Atelje Under Uppbyggand
2019 Taktil, Atelje Under Uppbyggand
2018 Behind the screens, Frilagret      

Grant / Scholarship

2025 Film & TV Lindholmens innovationsstöd
2024 Göteborgs slöjdförening Stipendium

2023 Partille Kulturstipendium

Lab 
2025-2026, One eARTh Creative Labs, Göteborg Art Sounds

2025 KINEMA LAB, Gothenburg Studios Development
2023 Narrative XR Lab, Visual Arena

Masterclass
2020 Ai.design.01 masterclass, HDK-Valand

Hackathon
2020 Hack for Heritage, Riksantikvarieämbetet
2019 Hack for Heritage, Riksantikvarieämbetet

Presentation
2025 CAMPFIRE, PlayLab
2025 Mellan pensel & pixel, Nordiska Akvarellmuseet
2025 Between art and technology, XR technologies – a new frontier for the Arts education and research, HDK-Valand
2024 Interactive Storytelling for Communities, Heritage and Public Engagement, NordiCHI 2024
2024 ENRICH: Enhancing the Digital Inclusivity of Cultural and Natural Heritage, PlayLab
2024 Designing Meaningful Social XR Workshop, The ACM International Conference on Interactive Media Experiences (IMX)
2024 Alumni Presentation, HDK-Valand
2024 Lightning Talk, Digikult 2024
2024 child remains- an immersive conversation about grief, Hidden sites

Publication
Book chapter
Trella, F., Di Feola, G., Einebrant, E. 2025. Immersive Exhibitions and Game Design as a Tool for Storytelling in Museums. In: Bakk, ÁK., Makai, P.K. (eds) Theorising and Designing Immersive Environments. Palgrave Studies in Performance and Technology. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-66067-2_10

Post-Proceeding
Di Feola, G. and Rostami, A. 2025. Child Remains: Engaging Grief, Memory, and Cultural Heritage through XR and the Tactility of Absence. In Proceedings of the 2025 ACM International Conference on Interactive Media Experiences (IMX '25). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 412–417. https://doi.org/10.1145/3706370.3731653

Di Feola, G., Einebrant, E. and Trella, F. 2021. “Museums, Technology and Social Interaction in ‘Anyone Can Innovate!’”. Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries Publications 3 (2): 170-78. https://doi.org/10.5617/dhnbpub.11244.

Abstract
Di Feola, G. and Hård af Segerstad, Y. 2025. From Archives to Emotions: XR and Art for Exploring Death and Grief in Cultural Heritage Institutions. Abstract for International Conference Death, Dying and Disposal (DDD17)

Lengyel, D., Di Feola, G. and Hård af Segerstad, Y. 2025.“Drawing Bridges”: Sketching Out Ways to Extend Digital Death Methodologies in Human-Computer Interaction and Computer Science. Abstract for International Conference Death, Dying and Disposal (DDD17)

upcoming: Lengyel, D., Di Feola, G. and Hård af Segerstad, Y. 2026. Bring out your dead ... we'll make them dance: Exploring ‘town' and 'gown’ perspectives on AI literacy and ethics of video-re-animated photography of the dead. Submission to DORS 8 (Death Online Research Symposium)

Position paper
Di Feola, G. 2024. Cultural heritage in XR told through design and artistic creation. Workshop, Interactive Storytelling for Communities, Heritage and Public Engagement,Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (NordiCHI 2024). https://innovationlapland.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/StoryCHP2024_paper_4_Di_Feola.pdf

Masters Thesis
Di Feola, G. 2024. Child Remains - Screening The Family Tree.University of Gothenburg/HDK­-Valand - Academy of Art Design, & Göteborgs universitet/HDK-Valand - Högskolan för konst och design. https://hdl.handle.net/2077/83749

Meet-Ups
MakaylaLewis,DeniseLengyel,MiriamSturdee,NickBryan-Kinns,Mafalda Gamboa, Gabriella Di Feola, Swen Gaudl, Silvia Carderelli-Gronau, Joseph Lindley, Sarah Fdili Alaoui, and Gerard Nolan. 2026. The Arts in HCI Tapestry: Networking, Making, and Reflecting Together. In Extended Abstracts of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’26), April 13–17, 2026, Barcelona, Spain. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 4 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3772363.3778781

Symposium
2021 Symposium Crafting Situations – Conversations exploring public private boundaries in the (present pandemic impacted) city , “A Wish to Meet” via “The Pace”, curated by Paula Buskevica and Katarina Sara and crafted by Julia Niklasson, John Wattström and Katarina Frisö, HDK Valand Academy of Art and Design Gothenburg and Estonian Academy of Arts

Interview

https://www.gu.se/en/hdk-valand/design-that-shapes-the-future

https://www.gu.se/kulturvetenskaper/utbildning/grundniva/medier--estetik-och-kulturellt-entreprenorskap-/