Alessandro Ludovico
Meta.Morf 2024 – [up]Loaded Bodies / Kjøpmannsgata Ung Kunst / Conference April 20 / Curator: Zane Cerpina
Neural 30 Years Anniversary: The Ecology of Interdependent Networks
The 30th anniversary of Neural, the renowned journal for critical digital culture and media art, is not intended as self-celebrating but as an opportunity to celebrate and nourish the support of an ecology of international interdependent networks. Some examples of these networks are: the communities of reference that sustain the economy, knowledge, and circulation of the journal, the experiments with archiving the history of media art through the Neural archive, the way in which artists have been given the opportunity to create interventions in the printed issues of Neural and the resulting passive preservation network of institutions, and the environmental sustainability of journal production as a joint endeavor with the printing, distribution and digital hosting facilities.
In the same collaborative and interdependent spirit of support, the latest issue, “Artificial Corporeality,” is a joint project with the current edition of Meta.Morf Biennale. Co-edited with Zane Cerpina, the issue has been conceived and produced to coincide with the biennale, expanding its theme and content within the spirit and guidelines of the journal. It will then become an independent addendum, still dependent on both sides, once again putting into action the constructive, collaborative, networking, and critically historicizing role of Neural.
Alessandro Ludovico (IT) 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 an Associate Professor at the Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton. He has published and edited several books, including Post-Digital Print (Onomatopee) and Tactical Publishing (MIT Press), 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).
Header Graphics: “Aquadisia” by Stephanie Rothenberg.