FPEditions authors

Jennifer Allen

Antonio Caronia

Rod Dickinson

Mario Gerosa

Jennifer Allen
is an art critic living and working in Berlin. Her work has appeared in Artforum, frieze and Parkett, among other magazines. She also regularly contributes texts to artists’ catalogues, most recently on the work of Candice Breitz, Omer Fast and Barbara Visser.

Rod Dickinson
is an artist and lecturer in media and cultural studies at University of West England in Bristol. His art work explores ideas of control and mediation. Using detailed research into moments of the past and present, he has made a series of meticulously re-enacted events that represent various mechanisms of social control.Most recently he remade and re-staged Guy Debord’s military strategy game The Game of War (2007). Other work has included: the recreation of the media around an 1894 bomb plot to destroy Greenwich Observatory (with novelist Tom McCarthy, 2006) and the recreation of Dr. Stanley Milgram’s infamous 1961 social psychology experiment Obedience to Authority (2002).Dickinson has exhibited widely in the UK and Europe, at venues including: BAK, Utrecht; Kunst Werke, Berlin; The Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco; The Prinzhorn Galleries in Heidelberg; Witte de With, Rotterdam; ICA, London; CCA, Glasgow; Bergen Kunsthall; ACMI (Australian Centre for the Moving Image), Melbourne

.Antonio Caronia
teaches “Multimedial Communication” at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera (The Academy of Fine Arts of Brera) and “Media Aesthetics” in the NABA (Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti), both in Milan. He is the Director of Studies for online PhD courses in the M-Node programme (Planetary Collegium, Plymouth, Great Britain). In the 1960s and 70s, while studying mathematics, logic and linguistics, he was a political activist and leader in left-wing Italian groups. After 1977, he turned to the study of mass culture and communication theory, especially the relationship between science, technology and imagination. He conducts research in philosophy and anthropology as it relates to science fiction, comics, digital images, virtual reality, and telematic networks. He writes for the left-wing newspaper L'Unità, and the reviews Millepiani and Cyberzone. He also translates novels, essays, and articles from English into Italian.

Mario Gerosa
Mario Gerosa (1963), journalist and writer, lives and works in Milan. Architecture graduate and chief editor of AD Architectural Digest, he has been working on virtual architecture and the cultures of social networks for some time. In 2006 he launched the convention to safeguard virtual architecture heritage and founded Synthravels (www.synthravels.com), the first travel agency offering tours of virtual worlds.
He has published books: Mondi virtuali (Rome, 2006), Second Life (Rome, 2007), Rinascimento virtuale (Rome, 2008).
Member of the OMNSH (www.omnsh.org), Observatoire des mondes numériques en sciences humaines in Paris, in the past he taught Communicating Landscapes at the Faculty of Architecture of Milan Polytechnic.
http://mariogerosa.blogspot.com

Patrick Lichty
Patrick Lichty is a digital intermedia designer, artist, writer, and independent curator of over 15 years whose work comments upon the impact of technology on society and how it shapes the perception of the world around us. He works in diverse technological media, including printmaking, kinetics, video, generative music, and neon. Venues in which Lichty has been involved with solo and collaborative works include the Whitney and Venice Bienniales as well as the International Symposium on the Electronic Arts (ISEA). He is Editor-in-Chief of Intelligent Agent, an electronic arts/culture journal based in New York City, and featured in the new documentary by the makers of American Movie, called The Yes Men.
With the avatar name of Man Michinaga, he is one of the founding member of the performance art collective Second Front. http://www.voyd.com/voyd/

Domenico Quaranta
is a contemporary art critic and curator based in Italy. His research focuses on the impact of the current techno-social developments on the arts, with a specific focus on art in networked spaces, from the Internet to virtual worlds. As an art critic, he is a regular contributor to Flash Art magazine; his essays, reviews and interviews have appeared in many magazines, newspapers and websites. His first book, entitled NET ART 1994-1998: La vicenda di Äda'web was published in 2004; he also co-edited the book GameScenes. Art in the Age of Videogames (2006) with Matteo Bittanti, and has contributed to a number of books and publications. Since 2008 he has edited a series of books on New Media Art for the Italian publisher FPEditions. He has curated and co-curated a number of exhibitions, including: Connessioni Leggendarie. Net.art 1995-2005 (Milan 2005); GameScenes (Turin 2005); Radical Software (Turin 2006); Holy Fire. Art of the Digital Age (Brussels 2008); For God's Sake! (Nova Gorica, 2008); RE:akt! | Reconstruction, Re-enactment, Re-reporting (Bucharest – Ljubljana 2009); Expanded Box (ARCO Art Fair, Madrid 2009); Hyperlucid (Prague Biennial, Prague 2009). He lectures internationally and teaches “Net Art” at the Accademia di Brera in Milan. For further information: www.domenicoquaranta.net

George Slade
George Slade is an independent curator, consultant, writer, and historian. He lives in St. Paul, Minnesota, with his partner Stephanie Arado and four children under sixteen. He is a regular contributor to photo eye Books on-line reviews. His business is done under the title "re:photographica" -- related information and a blog can be found online at http://rephotographica-slade.blogspot.com/

Alan Sondheim
Alan Sondheim (Alan Dojoji on Second Life) an artist/theorist/writer who works with motion capture, scanner, and other technologies, researching the phenomenology
of the ‘true world’ of analog/digital mish-mash.
He’s currently working at the Virtual Environments Laboratory and Center
for Literary Computing at West Virginia University.
His ongoing meditation on being/online/being, the “internet text”
is found among other things at http://www.alansondheim.org/
and the blog http://nikuko.blogspot.com

Jan Verwoert
is an art critic who lives in Berlin. He teaches art at the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam, works as a contributing editor to frieze magazine, writes for different publications, and co-curated the city-wide exhibition Art Sheffield 08, Yes, No, Other Options in Sheffield in 2008.