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, Theories of
Cyberculture, and Theories of Internet Culture and Internet Textuality,
supported by the Slovenian Ministry of Science and Technology. In the
nineties he taught Sociology of Popular Culture at two faculties of
University of Ljubljana. He is the author of six books in the field of
cultural studies and aesthetics published in Slovenia. 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. His most recent book is The
Internet Art (2004). He has also written in journals such as the Journal
of Popular Culture, the Popular Culture Review, A-r-c, Afterimage and
CTheory, and has presented his papers at various international conferences
in Europe, Mexico, Australia and the United States. His essays Moving
Words and Attitudes on the Move are published in The Cyber-Text Yearbook
2000 and 2002-2003 (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.
janez.strehovec@guest.arnes.si
