After a research stint at the McLuhan Program in Culture & Technology he changed his expression channel from video to art, with a penchant for interactive installations, telematic art, bioart and various art-science combinations. Monico believes science and art can contribute to expanding global consciousness, but only with the help of alternative systems of knowledge. His modus operandi is based on a combination of science, art, philosophy, and esoteric knowledge in which the artist recognizes the paradoxical nature of knowledge and the contradictions inherent in formal epistemologies, and in his deep speculation his dealing with an hermeneutical approach. His metodology is a syncretic mixing critical theory and a pragmatic art approach that he applied as founder of the School of Media design & New Media Art at NABA in Milano, Italy. Among his artworks is The Artist Formerly Known as Vanda (Tafkav - 2007) and Is there Love in the Technoetic Narcissus? (2010). In 2009 he was curator for the first Italian solo show of bioartist Brandon Ballangée, Monstre Sacré .
FRANCESCO MONICO
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