Gabriella Giannachi is Professor in Performance and New Media at the University of Exeter, UK. She has published a number of books including: Virtual Theatres (2004); The Politics of New Media Theatre (2007); Performing Presence: Between the Live and the Simulated, co-authored with Nick Kaye (2011); Performing Mixed Reality, co-authored with Steve Benford (2011); Archaeologies of Presence, co-edited with Michael Shanks and Nick Kaye (2012); Archive Everything (2016) and Histories of Performance Documentation, co-edited with Jonah Westerman (2017).

She has written papers for a number of humanities and science journals, and has been involved in a number of AHRC, RCUK and Innovate UKL funded projects in collaboration with Tate, Royal Albert Memorial Museum and Art Gallery, LIMA, The Photographers Gallery, 1010 Media and Factory 42.