Francesco Fedele

Originally from Southern Italy, Dr. Francesco Fedele has been an Atlanta resident for more than 15 years. He is an associate professor in the school of civil and environmental engineering at Georgia Tech.
Francesco started practicing art in 2016 during a two-year recovery from an injury as a form of self- learned art therapy. This experience transformed Francesco, and gave him a new outlet of self expression that he has pursued ever since. In this regard, Francesco aims at infusing arts into the Curriculum at Georgia Tech for a holistic experience in the classroom. He has developed and taught the Courses “Art and Geometry” and “Art and Generative AI” at Georgia Tech. He introduces students to the geometry of high dimensional manifolds and how these concepts influenced modern arts and sciences while a teaching artist introduces drawing concepts, practice sketching and oil painting on both figure and geometric drawing. In 2020 Francesco collaborated with DanceCanvas choreographer Thulani Vereen to create "GLITCH: Escaping Plato's cave", a dance performance and film which explores the universality of human vulnerability and strength inspired by Plato's allegory. The film was screened in 2021 at ‘SOAR’ Presented with BronzeLens Film Festival, Synchronicity Theatre. Francesco is a practicing fine artist and member of the Atlanta Artist Center. He is committed to exposing Atlanta’s community to innovative ideas combining art, science and technology.