mario gerosa

Current

• professor of Multimedia and Virtual Landscapes at Politecnico di Milano
• founder at Synthravels
• caporedattore Architectural Digest at Conde Nast

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Past

• collaboration to the screenplay, actor with my SL avatar at VolaVola film
• author at Il Foglio letterario
• Curator Rinascimento virtuale exhibition at Natural History Museum Florence

• author at Meltemi
• author of a book about Second Life at Meltemi
• Professor of Landscape Communication at Faculty of architecture - Politecnico di Milano
• caporedattore Condé Nast Traveller at Conde Nast
• collaboratore at Arte - Giorgio Mondadori

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Education

• Politecnico di Milano
• liceo Volta

Connections

232 connections

Industry

Publishing

Websites

• My Blog
• My initiative

mario gerosa’s Summary

I have always been interested in imaginary worlds and fictional architectures. I graduated with a thesis about the imaginary locations of Marcel Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu. In 1991 I made an exhibition about the interiors of the locked room murders of John Dickson Carr.
I wrote about literary houses, tourism in video games, grand hotels in novels and in movies.
With Aurélien Pfeffer I wrote Mondi virtuali (Castelvecchi, 2006), an essay about virtual worlds.
Then I wrote Second Life (Meltemi, 2007) and Rinascimento virtuale (Meltemi, 2008). In 2009 I published "Il cinema di Terence Young", a book about the film director who launched James Bond.
I also launched the Convention for the Protection of the Virtual Architectural Heritage and I founded Synthravels, the first travel agency for tours in virtual worlds.
My avatar in SL is Frank Koolhaas

mario gerosa’s Specialties:

virtual worlds, imaginary architectures, responsive architectures, culture and events in Second Life, pop and kitsch culture

mario gerosa’s Experience

• professor of Multimedia and Virtual Landscapes

  Politecnico di Milano

  (Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Research industry)

  September 2008 — Present (1 year 5 months)

• founder

  Synthravels

  (Non-Profit; Myself Only; Leisure, Travel & Tourism industry)

  October 2006 — Present (3 years 4 months)

  www.synthravels.com
  the first travel agency for tours in virtual worlds

• caporedattore Architectural Digest

  Conde Nast

  (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Publishing industry)

  May 2005 — Present (4 years 9 months)

• collaboration to the screenplay, actor with my SL avatar

  VolaVola film

  (Entertainment industry)

  October 2008 — October 2009 (1 year 1 month)

• author

  Il Foglio letterario

  (Publishing industry)

  September 2009 — September 2009 (1 month)

  Author of a book about Terence Young, the film director of the first James Bond films

• Curator Rinascimento virtuale exhibition

  Natural History Museum Florence

  (Museums and Institutions industry)

  October 2008 — January 2009 (4 months)

  I was the curator of the Rinascimento virtuale exhibition, an event dedicated to the art of Second Life

• author

  Meltemi

  (Publishing industry)

  March 2008 — December 2008 (10 months)

  Author of Rinascimento virtuale and Second Life

• author of a book about Second Life

  Meltemi

  (Publishing industry)

  February 2007 — March 2008 (1 year 2 months)

• Professor of Landscape Communication

  Faculty of architecture - Politecnico di Milano

  (Educational Institution; 501-1000 employees; Architecture & Planning industry)

  October 2007 — February 2008 (5 months)

• caporedattore Condé Nast Traveller

  Conde Nast

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Publishing industry)

  September 1999 — May 2005 (5 years 9 months)

• collaboratore

  Arte - Giorgio Mondadori

  (Publishing industry)

  1994 — 1996 (2 years )

mario gerosa’s Education

• Politecnico di Milano

  Graduate , Architecture , 1982 — 1987

• liceo Volta

Additional Information

mario gerosa’s Websites:

• My Blog
• My initiative

mario gerosa’s Interests:

video games, old grand hotels postcards, movies

mario gerosa’s Groups:

OMNSH Observatoire des mondes numériques en sciences humaines, Paris (www.omnsh.org), Second Life

•    Professional Second Lifers
•    Florence Festival of Creativity - Festival della Creatività, Firenze (Toscana - Tuscany)
•    intoscana.it - Toscana business Club (social-networking in Tuscany)
•    Rinascimento Virtuale - Virtual Renaissance - art exhibition (Firenze - Florence)
•    InSide Job

mario gerosa’s Honors:

In the team of the winners of the Osram Competition in Second Life 2008
4th with Laura Cassarà at the Competion for a business plan for Second Life (project for a new search engine) 2007
Premio Pasinetti Cinema Nuovo - Prize for an essay of film critics (1987)

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