[-empyre-] intro.

[Alessandro Ludovico <a.ludovico@neural.it>]

First of all thanks to Christina McPhee for inviting me here.

To introduce myself, here's my bio:

Alessandro Ludovico
From 1993 is the editor in chief of Neural, new media culture 
magazine in English/Italian. He edited: in 1992 'Virtual Reality 
Handbook'; in 1995 'Internet.Underground.Guide', an underground net 
guide with one of the first music compilation assembled via email; in 
2000 'Suoni Futuri Digitali' (Future Digital Sounds), an in-depth 
research on the history of the innovations to produce and experience 
sounds. He's one of the founding members of the Nettime list and of 
the 'Mag.Net (Magazine Network of Electronic Cultural Publishers)' 
organization. Now he writes for Springerin (A), Mute (UK), 
MyTech-Mondadori.com (I) Dividuum (CH) and RTSI (CH-Italian language 
Switzerland RadioTV). In 2001 he joined the n.a.m.e. (normal audio 
media environment) art group developing the 'Sonic Genoma' sound art 
project. In the same year he organized the 'Liberation Technologies' 
conference in Bari (I). From 2002 he's a collaborator of the 
Digitalkraft (D) exhibitions, expert in the Runme.org (FI) board, 
curator of new media art in the Dissonanze festival (I), and has 
joined panels in Transmediale (D), Post-Media Publishing (E), Next 5 
Minutes (NL), Venice Biennale (I) and Read_me (FI). He also conducts 
'Neural Station' a weekly radio show on electronic music and digital 
culture, and daily updates the Neural website 
[http://neural.it/english/] and [http://neural.it].


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Alessandro Ludovico
Neural.it - http://www.neural.it/ daily updated news + reviews
English content - http://www.neural.it/english/
Suoni Futuri Digitali - http://www.neural.it/projects/sfd/