Francesco Monico
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Francesco Monico is an artist, educator, broadcaster, and writer in Italy
Italy
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Previous activities

Monico worked for ten years as a director, screenwriter and program chief in Italian broadcast, sperimentale and interactive TV, is both a Technoetic
Technoetic
The term technoetic was created by Roy Ascott during his career as an artist and theorist in the fields of cybernetics and telematics. Ascott coined the term from a compound of the Greek words Techne and noetikos, and defined it as the quest to understand the effects of technology on...

 researcher and artist. He was director and author for Rai3, Mediaset,Rai2, France 2, and channel manager for Tele+3, SeiMilano. Monico did research at Studium S3, at Fabrica, at the McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology
McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology
The McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology started in 1963 as the Centre for Culture and Technology.In 1994, the McLuhan Program became a part of the University of Toronto's Faculty of Information Studies....

 a the University of Toronto
University of Toronto
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. Former member of the Scientific Committee of Milano in Digitale with Antonio Caronia, Paolo Rosa, Pierluigi Capucci, and Franco Torrani. Former member of the Scientific Committee of the Leonardo da Vinci Science and Technology Museum in Milan, with Giulio Giorello
Giulio Giorello
Giulio Giorello is an Italian philosopher, mathematician, and epistemologist.-Biography:Giorello graduated with a degree in philosophy in 1968 and in mathematics in 1971 at the University of Milan. While there he studied under the philosopher Ludovico Geymonat...

, Emanuele Severino, and Enrico Bellone.In the past he was a regular media commentator for the International Herald Tribune
International Herald Tribune
The International Herald Tribune is a widely read English language international newspaper. It combines the resources of its own correspondents with those of The New York Times and is printed at 38 sites throughout the world, for sale in more than 160 countries and territories...

s Italian news section.

Current activities

Today Monico is mainly engaged in directing the Media Design and New Media Art Department he founded at the Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti Milano in Milan. He is a professor of Theory and Method of Mass Media at the same institution, as well as director of the PhD program M-Node, Planetary Collegium
Planetary Collegium
The Planetary Collegium is an international platform for research in art, technology and consciousness, with its hub based in the University of Plymouth, with linked centers in Zurich and Milan...

, and a Senior Fellow of the McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology
McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology
The McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology started in 1963 as the Centre for Culture and Technology.In 1994, the McLuhan Program became a part of the University of Toronto's Faculty of Information Studies....

 in Toronto. He is an alumnus of Derrick de Kerckhove
Derrick de Kerckhove
Derrick de Kerckhove is the author of The Skin of Culture and Connected Intelligence and Professor in the Department of French at the University of Toronto, Canada...

. Monico became more focused on how technology shapes human communication, behaviour, and thought and is currently researching under Roy Ascott
Roy Ascott
Roy Ascott is a British artist and theorist, who works with cybernetics and telematics. He is President of the Planetary Collegium.- Biography :...

 as part of the PhD CAiiA in the Planetary Collegium. Today is member of the International Programm Committee of the Isea 2011. Monico writes in online and print publications, and is New Media art commentator for Wired
Wired (magazine)
Wired is a full-color monthly American magazine and on-line periodical, published since January 1993, that reports on how new and developing technology affects culture, the economy, and politics...

Italian edition.

Metodology

After a research stint at the McLuhan Program he changed his expression channel from video to art, with a penchant for interactive installations, telematic art
Telematic art
Telematic art is a descriptive of art projects using computer mediated telecommunications networks as their medium. Telematic art challenges the traditional relationship between active viewing subjects and passive art objects by creating interactive, behavioural contexts for remote aesthetic...

, BioArt
BioArt
BioArt is an art practice where humans work with live tissues, bacteria, living organisms, and life processes. Using scientific processes such as biotechnology the artworks are produced in laboratories, galleries, or artists' studios...

, and various art-science combinations. Deeply influenced by Roy Ascott, Monico believes science and art can contribute to expanding global consciousness, but only with the help of alternative systems of knowledge. His modus operandi is based on a combination of science, art, philosophy, and esoteric knowledge in which the artist recognizes the paradoxical nature of knowledge and the contradictions inherent in formal epistemologies, and in his deep speculation his dealing with an hermeneutical approach. His metodology is a syncretic mixing critical theory and a pragmatic art approach that he applied as founder of the School of Media design & New Media Art at NABA.

Art career

Monico has changed his expression channel from video to art, with a penchant for interactive installations, telematic art
Telematic art
Telematic art is a descriptive of art projects using computer mediated telecommunications networks as their medium. Telematic art challenges the traditional relationship between active viewing subjects and passive art objects by creating interactive, behavioural contexts for remote aesthetic...

, BioArt
BioArt
BioArt is an art practice where humans work with live tissues, bacteria, living organisms, and life processes. Using scientific processes such as biotechnology the artworks are produced in laboratories, galleries, or artists' studios...

, and various art-science combinations.

Among his artworks is The Artist Formerly Known as Vanda (Tafkav - 2007/10) and Is there Love in the Technoetic Narcissus?. In 2009 he was curator for the first Italian solo show of bioartist Brandon Ballangée, Monstre Sacré .

Exhibitions

  • AMBER07: Body process arts festival. Istanbul, 9–17 November 2007. TAFKAV.
  • DARS: Milan, 14–21 October 2008. TAFKAV.
  • Premio Libero Ferretti: Ancona, 17–24 January 2009. TAFKAV.
  • Festival Feedback Inter-acto Ergo Sum: San Casciano Val di Pesa, Florence, 26–28 June 2009.
  • Palazzo della Permanente: Premio Libero Ferretti, Milan, 6–12 July 2009.
  • StreamFest 2009, Mostra Wet & Dry - Relazioni tra arte e natura nel contemporaneo tecnologico. Galatina, Italy, 2–12 August 2009. TAFKAV.
  • Mya Lurgo Gallery - Germinazioni curated by Martina Cavallarin: Lugano, Switzerland, 11 November 2009. TAFKAV.
  • PAV Parco d'Arte Vivente http://www.parcoartevivente.it/ - Diverse Forme Bellisme with Piero Gilardi, curated by Claudio Cravero: Turin, Italy, 5 February 2010 to 11 April 2010. TAFKAV.
  • Nowhere Gallery - Il Ciclo Dell'Alterità: The Artist Formerly Known As Vanda, and C'è amore nel Narciso technoetico? ("Is There Love In The Technoetic Narcissus?"), Milan, 11 June to 17 July 2010.
  • The Merchant of Venice, http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3D9ceVlZX0I/TcFviJ0Fn_I/AAAAAAAAAF4/fYBmnR2M3mQ/s1600/invito-1.jpg - Biennale Vegetale. Doppia con Caroline Bougoreau. Venezia, Italy, 1–12 June 2011. TAFKAV, Studio Monitor.
  • AMBER11: NEXT ECOLOGY. Istanbul, 4–13 November 2011. THE HYBRID CONSTITUTION.


Art Curacy

  • Monico, F. (2009). Monstre Sacré - Brandon Ballengee, Nowhere Gallery, Via del Caravaggio 12, Milano, 18 September 2009, Special Start Milano.

Conferences & Symposium Curacy


Articles

  • Monico, F. (2009). La soglia tra arte ed essere. D'ARS, N.198. June 2009, page 29-31 Special 53° Biennale di Venezia, Milano, ISSN 00116726.

Further reading

  • de Feo, Teresa. TAFKAV e un fiore di nome Vanda,article published in DIGIMAG N. 30 (2007 Dicembre - 2008 Gennaio).
  • Martini, Alberto Mattia. 2008 Marzo.TAFKAV The Artist Formerly Known as Vanda, Un metodo eversivo article published in D'ARS N. 193 (March, 2008, 48° Years from 1960).
  • Trivellin, Cristina. 2008 December.TAFKAV The Artist Formerly Known as Vanda article published in NOEMA Tecnologie e Società (14/12/2008).
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