Maria Antonietta Mariani was born in Avellino, Italy, in 1968. After graduating in Economics at the University of Naples, she specialized in Anthropology and Visual Arts. In 2005 she obtained a scholarship from Goldsmiths University of London. Her works are presented in various universities and events such as the Arts and Architecture University of Brighton, the Istanbul Biennale, the Ege University, the New York University and the Glasgow Science Centre. In 2013 she created Strane Straniere art&anthropology project, best practice for the EMWF (2015) and the Council of Europe (2018). She is author and associate producer of the film Strane Straniere (2016). The film was presented at the 11th Rome Film Fest and released in 2017. In 2018 she won the Altiero Spinelli Award by the European Commission with the novel Babylon Ring. In 2020 she started Cronotopiche, an artistic research project nominated at New European Bauhaus Awards 2021. Her film project I Ricambi di Aida was finalist at Premio Solinas, the most important Italian screenplay award, it was selected for IDS Academy 2021 at Torino Film Industry and for Pitch Beyond Borders 2023 by EWA European Women’s Audiovisual Network /Wscripted.