For a detailed bio please, check http://www.capucci.org
Since the early ‘80 Pier Luigi Capucci has been concerned with the communication’s studies, the new media and the new art forms, and with the relations among arts, sciences and technologies. He has been professor at the Universities of Rome “La Sapienza”, Bologna, Florence, Urbino and at the SUPSI - University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland. Currently he is professor at the NABA in Milan, and in other institutions. Since 2008 he has been working as a supervisor in the M-Node PhD Research Programme of the Planetary Collegium (NABA - University of Plymouth).
He published the books "Realtà del virtuale. Rappresentazioni tecnologiche, comunicazione, arte" (Reality of the virtual. Technological representations, communication, art), 1993, on virtual technologies and the relationships between culture and sensorial representations; "Il corpo tecnologico. L'influenza delle tecnologie sul corpo e sulle sue facoltà" (The technological body. Technologies’ influence on the body and its faculties), 1994, on the impact of technologies on the human body; and "Arte e tecnologie. Comunicazione estetica e tecnoscienze" (Art and technologies. Aesthetic communication and technosciences), 1996, about art, sciences and technologies [in 2007 freely distributed under a Creative Common License -> http://www.noemalab.org/sections/specials/arte_tecnologie/main.html
He published more than 300 texts in books, magazines and conference papers in Italy and abroad. He has organized exhibitions, managed projects and participated to many conferences in Italy and abroad. He has been working in european projects on technological communications, and since 2004 he has been in the International Advisory Board of Ars Electronica of the Net Communities category.
He founded (in 1994) and directed the first italian online magazine, NetMagazine, later MagNet, a research project on the relationships between culture and technologies, in conjunction with the universities of Bologna and Rome “La Sapienza”, which lasted until December 1997." [here you can find the first issue on the Web http://www.noemalab.org/sections/specials/netmag_magnet/warning_1.html and the last issue http://www.noemalab.org/sections/specials/netmag_magnet/warning_2.html , a research project on the relationships between culture and technologies, in conjunction with the universities of Bologna and Rome "La Sapienza", which lasted until December 1997.
He is founder and director of "Noema" (http://noemalab.eu), a website devoted to culture-new technologies interrelations and influences (since 2000). "Culture" also means "habits", "lifestyles", "communications", "art", "society", "economy", "media", "philosophy"..., while "new technologies" should be intended in a broader meaning than the digital realm.
In 2004 he founded "mediaversi" (http://www.mediaversi.it), which he is the director of, a book series coproduced by Noema focused on new media, sciences and society, with an international Scientific Committee.
He has been working as a consultant in the field of new media (computer image, hypermedia, holography, telematics, and their applications) with public and private institutions and firms. Since 1992 he has been working on european projects on technological communications.
His theoretical activity is concerned with idioms, techniques and technologies of representation and communication in the communication and art realms, and with the technoscience-based art forms. In the field of applied research he works on the opportunities of social relationships raised by online communications and new media.
Detailed bio: http://www.capucci.org
Since the early ‘80 Pier Luigi Capucci has been concerned with the communication’s studies, the new media and the new art forms, and with the relations among arts, sciences and technologies. He has been professor at the Universities of Rome “La Sapienza”, Bologna, Florence, Urbino and at the SUPSI - University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland. Currently he is professor at the NABA in Milan, and in other institutions. Since 2008 he has been working as a supervisor in the M-Node PhD Research Programme of the Planetary Collegium (NABA - University of Plymouth).
He published the books "Realtà del virtuale. Rappresentazioni tecnologiche, comunicazione, arte" (Reality of the virtual. Technological representations, communication, art), 1993, on virtual technologies and the relationships between culture and sensorial representations; "Il corpo tecnologico. L'influenza delle tecnologie sul corpo e sulle sue facoltà" (The technological body. Technologies’ influence on the body and its faculties), 1994, on the impact of technologies on the human body; and "Arte e tecnologie. Comunicazione estetica e tecnoscienze" (Art and technologies. Aesthetic communication and technosciences), 1996, about art, sciences and technologies [in 2007 freely distributed under a Creative Common License -> http://www.noemalab.org/sections/specials/arte_tecnologie/main.html
He published more than 300 texts in books, magazines and conference papers in Italy and abroad. He has organized exhibitions, managed projects and participated to many conferences in Italy and abroad. He has been working in european projects on technological communications, and since 2004 he has been in the International Advisory Board of Ars Electronica of the Net Communities category.
He founded (in 1994) and directed the first italian online magazine, NetMagazine, later MagNet, a research project on the relationships between culture and technologies, in conjunction with the universities of Bologna and Rome “La Sapienza”, which lasted until December 1997." [here you can find the first issue on the Web http://www.noemalab.org/sections/specials/netmag_magnet/warning_1.html and the last issue http://www.noemalab.org/sections/specials/netmag_magnet/warning_2.html , a research project on the relationships between culture and technologies, in conjunction with the universities of Bologna and Rome "La Sapienza", which lasted until December 1997.
He is founder and director of "Noema" (http://noemalab.eu), a website devoted to culture-new technologies interrelations and influences (since 2000). "Culture" also means "habits", "lifestyles", "communications", "art", "society", "economy", "media", "philosophy"..., while "new technologies" should be intended in a broader meaning than the digital realm.
In 2004 he founded "mediaversi" (http://www.mediaversi.it), which he is the director of, a book series coproduced by Noema focused on new media, sciences and society, with an international Scientific Committee.
He has been working as a consultant in the field of new media (computer image, hypermedia, holography, telematics, and their applications) with public and private institutions and firms. Since 1992 he has been working on european projects on technological communications.
His theoretical activity is concerned with idioms, techniques and technologies of representation and communication in the communication and art realms, and with the technoscience-based art forms. In the field of applied research he works on the opportunities of social relationships raised by online communications and new media.
Detailed bio: http://www.capucci.org
