Brian Holmes

Brian Holmes is a cultural critic living in Paris and Chicago, writing about art, activism and social change, and traveling restlessly around the world to do it. He has a Ph.D. in Romance Languages and Literatures from the University of California at Berkeley and is the author of two books: _Hieroglyphs of the Future: Art and Politics in a Networked Era_ (Zagreb: Arkzin/WHW, 2002) and _Unleashing the Collective Phantoms: Essays in Reverse Imagineering_ (New York: Autonomedia, 2007), as well as innumerable articles published in journals, catalogues, books, tracts
and weblogs in many different languages. He was the English editor of publications for Documenta X, has collaborated extensively with the artist/activist groups Ne Pas Plier, Bureau d'études and (still ongoing) the 16 Beaver Group, and has been a longstanding contributor to Nettime and a member of the editorial committee of the journal Multitudes, among others. His project in a nutshell: autonomous, freely distributed, politically engaged criticism of art, technology, economics and culture, with a focus on the intensifying contradiction between abstract, unitary, finance-driven globalisation and the territorial grounds of human ecology.