MAKING THE INVISIBLE VISIBLE
Working with data as a narrative material to explore memory, sound, and the invisible structures shaping human experience, Tiziana’s investigations capture intangible phenomena through field recording, biometric data, data sonification, and algorithmic systems to create audiovisual works across installations and moving image. Her approach is both analytical and poetic, reflecting a biographical journey that makes the invisible visible. Her practice is defined as behavioural cartography – visually mapping the minutiae of how people live today. Her ‘unfinished thinking’ turns found and invisible data into ongoing investigations to make the invisible visible and transform data into meaningful stories.
Tiziana’s work was exhibited internationally in Jeju Island, Bangkok, Helsinki, London, Tbilisi, Milan, Genoa, Madrid, Copenhagen, and presented at The National Gallery, UNIT London, The British Library, Bangkok Kunsthalle, London Design Festival, King's College London, Fondation EDF, C3 Mexico City, Milan Design Week, Palazzo Ducale Genova, and The Royal Danish Academy.
Alongside her practice, Tiziana has been an Associate Lecturer at the MA in Data Visualisation at the University of the Arts London since 2018. Her TEDx talk, crystallised the core objectives of her practice by unpacking the processes around How Sound Data Can Recreate Lost Memories.
In 2017, she co-founded the award-winning Market Cafe Magazine – the world’s first independent magazine about data visualisation.
She lives and works in London, UK. Her studio is open on appointment.
Tiziana is currently writing a book about invisible data to be published by Wiley in 2027.
Awards
2026 Data Sonification Awards, Winner in Arts Category
Lovie Awards People's winner in Websites & Mobile Sites: Best Design
Lovie Awards Silver in Websites & Mobile Sites: Best Design
Kantar Information is Beautiful Awards Gold in Visualisation & Info Design
Data Awards Comms Silver in Best Data Viz in Healthcare
Indigo Design Award Silver in Digital Art
Contact details
Reach out to Tiziana for collaborations, exhibitions, lectures, and speaking engagements: hello@tizianaalocci.com
For press enquiries, interviews, and media kit: press@tizianaalocci.com
Studio visits are available by appointment.
Artist Statement
Tiziana’s work is born from inevitability – an unstoppable impulse to track, process, and expose the varied and unseeable rhythms of the world. The roots of her practice were formed in her childhood. From these early years, she began working recursively, creating a single sketch every day that connected with her emerging personhood – an exercise her educators called ‘presenza’ (presence). This represented an unconscious approach to the movement of Quantified Self, which Tiziana now re-appropriates repeatedly in her evolving art practice.
This focus on exposing the ‘self’ through art has remained foundational to her production. Tiziana’s work is tied to a mental landscape of compulsive thinking – she has been identified as living with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) – and is created as an antidote to obsessive cycles. This manifests differently across varied projects, but systematically begins with a recording process and ends with an interpretive one.
The recording phase starts with an introspective trigger. She records actions (her movement and breath as she walks through landscapes), she records unconscious behaviours (her breathing patterns when sleeping), and she records relationships (the intimate moments shared with her partner). The interpretative phase then becomes a translation of these metrics into two-dimensional form.
Visually, this is often expressed in circular elements. Circles are formed of a sequence of thousands of imperceptible points that merge into one curved line – a hidden pressure pushing them from the centre to the edge as they support one another. These points represent the data points Tiziana gathers in her recording process. Their invisible tension becomes a replication of the tensions within her own mental excursions, once again occupying the notion of ‘presenza’.
The end work culminates as behavioural cartography – abstracted representations of the behaviour of people, cities, and objects. The artworks, once complete, piece together diverse meanings; they become maps of experience, unveiling both overt and hidden messages embedded in the everyday rituals of human existence.
Tiziana’s practice is built as a result of an inner dialogue, with each visual creation transferring a peaceful feeling at the point of creation. The artworks signify the ultimate compulsive act – a ritual that calms a restless mind. In this way, compulsive, disordered thoughts are given order as they are pushed into the work, with art becoming a lifeline and a necessity for survival.
