Francesco Monico

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Francesco Monico is an Italian researcher of Technoetic, mainly engaged in the Italian Academy of Fine Arts reform as Head of Media Design Department, Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti Milano - NABA, and Professor Theory and Method of Mass Media, in the same institution. Monico is also Director of the PhD Program M-Node^[1], Planetary Collegium and a Fellow of the McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology. He is an alumnus of Derrick de Kerckhove and scholar of Roy Ascott, as part of the PhD CAiiA in the Planetary Collegium. Former member of the Scientific Committee of the Museum Leonardo da Vinci della Scienza e della Tecnologia di Milano, former media commentator at the Herald Tribune/Italy Daily.

After a career in Italian broadcast television, Monico's interest were more focalized on how technology shapes human communication, behaviour and thought. After the specialisation study at the McLuhan Program he went to research with Roy Ascott and he changed his expression from video to art, with consideration toward interactive installation, telematic art, BioArt, and specializing in an art-science setting. His metodology is a syncretic approach in which is doing a mashup between critical theory and pragmatic art approach, for example, The Artist Formerly Known as Tafkav (i.e. Tafkav) ^[2]