Alessandro Ludovico
Alessandro Ludovico (1969) is a media critic and editor-in-chief of the Neural magazine. 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. He wrote 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 has been 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. He lives in Bari, Italy.
Publications
- Editor
- Neural magazine, Bari, since 1993. [1]
- with Miren Eraso and Slávo Krekovič, The Mag.net Reader: Experiences in Electronic Cultural Publishing, San Sebastian: Arteleku-Diputación Foral de Gipuzkoa, 2006, 122 pp.
- with Nat Muller, The Mag.net Reader 2: Between Paper and Pixel, OpenMute, 2007, 108 pp.
- with Nat Muller, The Mag.net Reader 3: Processual Publishing. Actual Gestures, OpenMute, 2008, 124 pp.
- Ubermorgen.com. Media Hacking vs. Conceptual Art, Basel: Merian, 2009, 208 pp.
- Books
- Post-Digital Print: The Mutation of Publishing Since 1894, Rotterdam: Creating 010, Hogeschool Rotterdam, and Eindhoven: Onomatopee, 2012, 192 pp.
- Post-Digital Print. La mutazione dell’editoria dal 1894, Altamura: CaratteriMobili, 2014, 249 pp. (Italian)
- Post-Digital Print: la mutation de l'édition depuis 1894, trans. Marie-Mathilde Bortolotti, Paris: B42, 2016. [2] (French)
- Post-Digital Print, Seoul: Mediabus, 2017, 264 pp. [3] (Korean)
- Interviews
- Regine Debatty, "Interview with Alessandro Ludovico (Neural Magazine)", We Make Money Not Art, Jan 2008.
- Michael Dieter, Nicole Heber, "Paper and Pixels in Love: An Email Interview with Alessandro Ludovico", Nettime, Jun 2008.
- Felix Stalder, "Publishing as Commons Practice, Interview with Alessandro Ludovico", Jan 2019, 13 min. Video. Transcript. Conducted Sep 2018 at HEK, Zurich. Part of the Creating Commons project. (English)
- Essays
- "Expanding books and Post-Digital Print", CCCB Lab, Feb 2015. (English)
- "Libros en expansión e impresión post-digital", CCCB Lab, Feb 2015. (Spanish)
- "Llibres en expansió i impressió postdigital", CCCB Lab, Feb 2015. (Catalan)
