Janez Strehovec
received his Ph.D. from the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia in
1988 in Aesthetics. Since 1993 he has been working as principal
researcher at the projects Theories of Cyberarts and Theories
of Cyberculture, both supported by the Slovenian Ministry of
Science and Technology. His recent research project involved in
the National Research Program for the next three years is Theories
of Internet Culture and Internet Textuality. In the nineties
he taught Sociology of Popular Culture at two faculties of University
of Ljubljana. He is the author of five books in the field of cultural
studies and aesthetics published in Slovene. His books include Technoculture,
the Culture of Techno (1998) dealing with the subject of techno
not just as a lifestyle issue and music movement but as a crucial
principle of the recent artificial realities. He has also written
in journals such as the Journal of Popular Culture, the Popular
Culture Review, A-r-c and CTheory, and has presented
his papers at various international conferences in Europe and the
United States. His essay Moving Words (On the theory of web
literary objects) was published in The Cybertext Yearbook 2001
(Ed. by M. Eskelinen & R. Koskimaa). He also deals with poetry,
both as theoretician and poet, and has published three books of
poems in Slovenia. His hobbies are mountain biking, backpacking
and alpine climbing. Every year he spends his summer vacation in
the French and Swiss Alps climbing the ridges of the highest European
mountains.
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