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.

• 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.

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, 33 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)

See also

• Post-digital

Links

• http://neural.it
• http://postdigitalprint.org
• Profile on U Southampton
• Wikipedia