Francesco Monico
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February 27, 1968 Venice |
| Occupation | Critical Artist, Academic |
Francesco Monico PhD (born Venice, February 27, 1968) is an educator, broadcaster, researcher, artist in Italy.
Monico worked for ten years as a director, screenwriter and program chief in Italian broadcast, sperimentale and interactive TV, is both a Technoetic 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 at the University of Toronto. 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, Emanuele Severino, and Enrico Bellone.In the past he was a regular media commentator for the International Herald Tribune's Italian news section.
Today Monico is Director of the Accademia Media Film Arti Visive in Rome and both working on research and development in science technologies and arts with different companies. Former director of the Media Design and New Media Art Department he founded at the Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti Milano in Milan. Former professor of Theory and Method of Mass Media at the same institution, as well as founder director of the PhD program M-Node,Planetary Collegium, today known as T-node and a Senior Fellow of the McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology in Toronto, Canada. He is an alumnus of Derrick de Kerckhove. Monico became more focused on how technology shapes human communication, behaviour, and thought and is currently researching under Roy Ascott as member of the board of the international PhD program Planetary Collegium.Member of the Programm Committee of the Isea 2011. Monico writes in online and print publications, and did New Media art commentary for Wired Italian edition. As Director of the Planetary Collegium's M-Node he was part, with Roy Ascott, of the 2011 World Universities Forum Award for Best Practice in Higher Education. As Director of Research & Development project he settled up in 2013, with IOCOSE, the Transmodal Research between Art & Technology of STINNOVATIONCUP 2013. He was selected for the 2015 Italian edition of TED, as keen thinker about Higher Education, Cultural Management & Entrepreneurships at TEDxRoncade. Today Monico is Teacher of Sociology of Media at the Consorzio Universitario Pordenone ISIA Roma and Teacher of Social Digital Innovation at the Faculty of Scienze Matematiche, Informatiche, Multimediali of the Università of Udine.
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