Alessandro Ludovico (born 1969) is a researcher, artist and chief editor of
Neural magazine since 1993. He received his Ph.D. degree in English and Media from
Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge (UK). He is Associate Professor at the
Winchester School of Art,
University of Southampton[1] and Lecturer at
Parsons Paris – The New School.[2] He has published and edited several books, and has lectured worldwide. He also served as an advisor for the
Documenta 12 Magazine Project. He is one of the authors of the award-winning Hacking Monopolism trilogy of artworks ("Google Will Eat Itself",[3] "Amazon Noir",[4] "Face to Facebook").[5]
Biography
Ludovico speaking in 2014.
Ludovico is one of the founding contributors to the
Nettime community and one of the founders of the organization Mag.Net (Magazine Network of Electronic Cultural Publishers).[6] He is a contributor to Springerin and has been a contributor for various media, including
RTSI (Italian language Switzerland Radiotelevision). In 2001 he was part of the n.a.m.e. (normal audio media environment) art group and developed "Sonic Genoma", a computer/sound art installation. He also conducted 20 "Neural Station", a weekly radio show on
electronic music and
digital culture on
Controradio, Bari.
He has written several books, including Suoni Futuri Digitali, la musica e il suo deflagrante impatto con la cultura digitale[7] and Post-Digital Print, the mutation of publishing since 1894,[8] which has been translated into Italian,[9] French[10] and Korean.[11]
"The Post-Digital Publishing Archive: An Inventory of Speculative Strategies"[12]
"From Browser’s Cache to the Human Genome – Towards an Extended Notion of Publishing"[12]
Further reading
Lovink, Geert; Rasch, Miriam (2013). Unlike Us Reader: Social Media Monopolies and Their Alternatives. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Institute of Network Cultures.
ISBN9789081857529.