Alessandro Ludovico
Alessandro Ludovico has been an artist, media critic and editor in chief of Neural magazine since 1993. He has published and edited several books, and has lectured worldwide. He's one of the founders of Mag.Net (Electronic Cultural Publishers organization). He also served as an advisor for the Documenta 12's Magazine Project. He has been guest researcher at the Willem De Kooning Academy in Rotterdam and he teaches at the Academy of Art in Carrara[1] and NABA in Milan.[2] He is one of the authors of the Hacking Monopolism trilogy of artworks (Google WIll Eat Itself, Amazon Noir, Face to Facebook)[1] Currently he’s PhD candidate at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge (UK).[2]
Biography
Born 1969. Awarded "Honorary Mention" for Net.Vision at Prix Ars Electronica 2004. One of the founding contributors of the Nettime community and one of the founders of the organization Mag.Net and of the 'European Peripheral Magazine' list. Now he writes for Springerin, Mute, MyTech-Mondadori.com and RTSI (Italian language Switzerland Radiotelevision). In 2001 he joined the n.a.m.e. (normal audio media environment) art group and developed 'Sonic Genoma', a computer/sound art installation. In the same year he organized the 'Liberation Technologies' conference in Bari. From 2002 he's a collaborator of the Digitalkraft exhibitions. He also conducts 'Neural Station' a weekly radio show on electronic music and digital culture, and daily updates the Neural website. Lives in Bari, Italy.[3]
Significant works
- “In Defense of Poor Media,”[4]
- “War postdigital besser? – Interview with Martin Conrads and Franziska Morlok,”[4]
- “The Post-Digital Publishing Archive: An Inventory of Speculative Strategies,”[4]
- “From Browser’s Cache to the Human Genome – Towards an Extended Notion of Publishing”[4]