lucamarini.void

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Luca Marini is an Italian visual communicator, graphic designer, and multimedia artist based in Italy and the Netherlands. His interdisciplinary practice explores the intersection of visual language, technology, and social activism, fluidly shifting between editorial, digital, and web-based projects.

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.｡˚𖥔Contacts

Instagram: @lucamarini.void

Email: lucamarini.void@gmail.com

.｡˚𖥔Education

2024 - ongoing → Master in Information Design, Design Academy Eindhoven (NL).

2020 - 2024 → Bachelor degree in Graphic design and visual communication at ISIA of Urbino (IT) (Cum Laude).

.｡˚𖥔Collective Visions / Alternative Design

Co-founder of Tensione, a cultural association founded in 2023 in Urbino (IT). Tensione develops and hosts a wide range of educational and artistic events — from workshops and exhibitions to experimental music performances — fostering dialogue, peer-to-peer knowledge sharing, and creative exchange. Contributions to Tensione: Event organizer, assistant curator for art exhibitions, and workshop facilitator.

Currently a member of Cagna Rauca. CagnaRauca is a design collective born from the idea of reclaiming digital and online spaces through a queer and transfeminist lens. Specializing in editorial design, the collective brings together various designers who engage with themes of resistance using an innovative and radical approach.

.｡˚𖥔Featured in

2024 → Visual Bleed

2024 → Pittogramma

2024 → Project U → ISIA U

2024 → ISIA of Urbino Open Day project Exhibition

2023 → UFFA! Urbino Amateur Short Film Festival

.｡˚𖥔Exhibitions

2024 → @childhood.void, My Childhood from the Void → Spazio Rumore → Urbino (IT)

2023 → CCV (Camere Con Vista Exhibition) → Senigallia (IT)

2023 → Paraschools II Exhibiton → Urbino (IT)

2023 → Reading Time Exhibition → Spazio Rumore → Urbino (IT)

2022 → Audience → The Ducal Palace of Urbino (IT)

.｡˚𖥔Talks Organized

2023 → Projection of the documentary "La Terra mi Tiene" by Sara Manisera e Arianna Pagani of collettivo FADA + Q&A by Sara Manisera → Tensione Cultural Association → Urbino (IT)

2023 → Occupare lo Spazio by Guerrilla Spam → Tensione Cultural Association → Urbino (IT)

.｡˚𖥔Workshop Organized

2023 → Analog Animation Workshop held by Oana Adina Enache, Oscar Renni, Maria Zilli → Urbino (IT)

2023 → Binding Workshop held by Andrea Guerra → Urbino (IT)

.｡˚𖥔Exhibitions Organized

2023 → Collaboration with 3bbo collective [Ravenna (IT)] → Tensione Cultural Association (IT)

2023 → Contaminazioni → Tensione Cultural Association (IT)

2023 → Paraschools II Exhibiton → Urbino (IT)

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Hacking Love

2025 → Design Academy Eindhoven

Starting with Hinge’s matchmaking system, this research explores the hidden complexity of how dating app algorithms influence the way users present themselves and connect with others. Designed to find the most compatible partner, the algorithm analyzes user behavior — from profile creation to swiping patterns, likes, and responses — and assigns a hidden score that determines match potential. This score rises or falls based on how many likes a user receives and how they engage with others, including interactions with features like “roses,” Hinge’s symbol of heightened interest. This constant ranking system can turn a genuine search for love into a self-conscious performance, pushing users to focus more on how they’re being scored than on authentic connection. Enter the “love guru” — an online persona, often found on YouTube, who presents themselves as a dating coach. These figures offer tips, tricks, and so-called hacks to boost scores, attract better matches, and game the system. But rather than offering empowerment, they often exploit users’ insecurities and profit from the anxiety of navigating romance in an algorithm-driven world.