daniela bologna
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daniela bologna

digital storyteller, she/her

open for work. offering idea development, copywriting, copyediting, curation, content creation, journalistic, archival and book design services. i am always interested in learning more about childhood, trees, world-building, grief, community, and building things with your hands. also on the lookout for a more permanent role that inspires me.

5 months ago

Contact

Are.na
Instagram

Projects

Ongoing

An ongoing investigation into moments that imbue the spirit of childhood. Very close to my heart.

Ongoing

A crowdsourced learning campaign.

Writing

2024

An ode to the stories and worlds we make, the worlds and stories that make us, I hope. On gift economies, decentralized storytelling, and my life-long belief that everything is a story we choose to tell ourselves.

2023

Edited and re-worked our co-interview on the essences, the universality, and the sanctity of childhood.

"Over the last year, I’ve really been thinking about the absolutes of childhood. There’s this depth— not only in joy but in everything. Because when you’re a kid, every feeling is impossible and endless. It becomes your truth. It becomes your sky. And to me that may be the singular, largest indicator of childhood. Maybe the only universal part. We don’t yet understand intangibility, so we’re becoming what we feel. I am often reminded that childhood is not only the wonder and the joy and the play; it’s also when we're experiencing the world for the first time. So all the pain we feel is in color."

2023
What the Ginkgo Tree Bears, Elegy for the Living Zine

A tiny ode to the tree that is always at my side.

2020
The Wandering Musicians of Mexico City

Work Experience

2024 — 2024
Assistant at Sylvia Plachy
Queens, NY

Tending to Sylvia Plachy's personal archive and other administrative tasks.

2023 — 2023

Creative copywriter for the 365 deck, including the card questions and copy on the scratch tool.

2020 — 2023
New York, NY

Member of core four-person team behind the planning, organizing and running of the week-long 2021 New Latin Wave Festival that took place online.

2022 — 2022

Helped inform their approach towards their child-like branding and messaging for the Kids Edition launch campaign and product.

2021 — 2021
Queens, NY

Assisted Sylvia Plachy with image selection, sequencing and InDesign use for her Guest Designer issue of Francis Ford Coppola's Zoetrope All-Story Magazine, featuring the words of Haruki Murakami and Ariel Dorfman.

2018 — 2019
New York, NY

New Latin Wave is a multidisciplinary platform showcasing, supporting and forging networks of Latinx artists and culture-workers creating outside of the mainstream.

2018 — 2018
Brooklyn, NY

Archived and worked with found photographs and recycled materials.

2017 — 2017
Intern at Equality for HER

Compiled research profiles of figures featured in the book Modern HERstory, published by Ten Speed Press.

Education

2017 — 2022
Journalism BFA, Photography BFA at New York University
New York, NY

Minor in film, cum laude.

2020

Reimagining what the internet could be if it was built around furthering interpersonal relationships first and foremost.

2022
Photoville at Brookyln Bridge Park
Brooklyn, NY
2022
Ekran at Brooklyn Art Cave
Brooklyn, NY

Certifications

2017
A* Extended Project Qualification from OCR

Investigating the question "Should artefacts in the British Museum be repatriated?"

Side Projects

Ongoing

A public and anonymous submission-based archive of old nonsensical phone notes that have been lost and found again.

2022

Assisted with idea generation and concept for this Spotted Lanternfly PSA.

2019
Sana, Sana

A short film about a young girl who uses drawing as an escape and how children can find home in one another.