Alessandro Ludovico

Alessandro Ludovico (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. He has published and edited several books, and has lectured worldwide. He also served as an advisor for the Documenta 12’s Magazine Project. He is one of the authors of the award-winning Hacking Monopolism trilogy of artworks (Google Will Eat Itself, Amazon Noir, Face to Facebook). (2022)

Publications

Books

Suoni futuri digitali: la musica e il suo deflagrante impatto con la cultura digitale, Apogeo, 2000, 180 pp. [1] (Italian)

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)
- Impresión posdigital: la mutación de la edición desde 1894, Universidad de los Andes, 2020, 264 pp. [4] (Spanish)

Tactical Publishing: Using Senses, Software, and Archives in the Twenty-First Century, forew. Nick Montfort, MIT Press (Leonardo), 2024, xii+324 pp. Publisher.

Editor

Neural magazine, Bari, since 1993. [5]

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.