Bertram Niessen

I am an electronic artist, teacher and sociologist. In 2001 I’ve been a founding member of the Milan-based experimental collective otolab with whom he investigates visual dramaturgic representation of sound. I teach theories, methodologies and tecniques of the audiovisual performance at NABA in Milan and in several other seminars and courses around Italy. I hold a PhD in Urban European Studies at the University of Miano-Bicocca (UNIMIB); my research in urban sociology investigates the relationships among city, creative economy and social innovation processes, with a special focus on artists co-optation in post-fordist economies. Now I am a post-doc researcher at the University of Milan (UNIMI) and I work on the EU projects EDUFASHION and Openwear, dealing with P2P economies, crowdsourcing and fashion. I am particularly interested in the social consequences of the undergoing transformations related to DIY 2.0, desktop manufacturing, network economies and bottom-up innovation.