CURRICULUM VITAE 1. Name: DE KERCKHOVE, Derrick Claude Frédéric 2. Degrees - Baccalauréat (Lettres classiques et Philosophie), 1961-1962, Ecole de Sorèze (Tarn, France) - B.A. (Classics & French Literature), 1963, University of Ottawa - M.A. (French Language & Literature), 1966, University of Toronto - Ph.D. (French Language & Literature), 1975, University of Toronto - Doctorat du 3e cycle (Sociologie de l'art), 1979, Université de Tours Graduate theses (i) Le sentiment du tragique dans les premières tragédies de Voltaire, supervised by Professor George Trembley, University of Toronto. (ii) Esquisse d'une sociologie sensorielle de la tragédie grecque: l'exemple d'Eschyle, thèse dirigée par Jean Duvignaud, professeur à l'université François Rabelais, U.E.R. des Sciences Sociales, Tours. 3. Current activities - CEO and Scientific Editor of Media Duemila - Scientific Adviser of Osservatorio TuttiMedia - Visiting Professor Politecnico of Milano 4. Past activities - 1963-67: Teaching Assistant, Universities of Ottawa and Toronto - 1967-75: Lecturer, University of Toronto - 1975-78: Assistant Professor, University of Toronto - 1976: Tenure awarded - 1978: Associate Professor, Department of French, University of Toronto - Spring 1983: Appointed to Graduate School - Spring/Summer 1987: Professeur Associé, Faculté des Lettres, Université de Nice (guest professorship for a period of six months - July 1990: Full professor Dept. of French U of Toronto - 1991-2008: Director McLuhan Program University of Toronto - 1989-2000: Professeur Associé, Université de Nice (alternate 1-2 month appointments during the Spring term, every year) - 2001-2003: (sessional appointments) Istituto Universitario Suor Orsola Benincasa, and Istituto Universitario Studi Orientali, Naples - 2002/2004-5/2008: Papamarkou Chair in Technology and Education - Library of Congress Washington, D.C. - April-June 2004: (sessional appointment) Faculty of Sociology, U Federico II (Naples, Italy) - 2001-2004: (sessional appointments) Dept. of Communications (Istituto Universitario Suor Orsola Benincasa, and Istituto Universitario Studi Orientali, Naples) - February-March 2004: (sessional appointment) Faculty of Engineering, University of Ancona - April-June 2005: (sessional appointment) Faculty of Sociology, U Federico II (Naples, Italy) - April-June 2006: (sessional appointment) Faculty of Sociology, U Federico II (Naples, Italy) - 2007-2014: Professor Faculty of Sociology, U Federico II (Naples, Italy) 5. Administrative Positions a. Positions within the University - 1972-79 : Associate Researcher at the Centre for Culture and Technology - 1976-79: Assistant to the Director, Graduate Centre for the Study of Drama - 1978-79 : Treasurer for the Program of Cinema Studies - 1981-82 : Director, Culture and Technology Seminar, St. Michael's College - 1981-82 : Coordinator of the TYSE (Third Year Studies Elsewhere programme), Department of French (Aix-en-Provence Programme only) - 1982-83 : Director, TYSE Program of French Studies at the Université de Provence (Aix-en-Provence) for the University of Toronto. - March 1982: Member of the Advisory Board of the McLuhan Programme in Culture and Technology, SGS - 1983-84: Acting Director for The McLuhan Program in Culture & Technology - 1984-89: Co-Director for The McLuhan Program in Culture & Technology . Member of the Search Committee for the Chairman of the English . Department at the University of Toronto. - 1986: Member of the Search Committee for the Dean of Division II - 1990-91 : Acting Director, McLuhan Program b. Positions outside the University - 1981-82: Treasurer, Association of Literary Translators of Canada(ATL/LTA) - 1984: Member of the Search Committee for the Chairman of the French - Department at Ryerson Polytechnical lnstitute. - 1987 (Spring and Summer): Professeur Associé, Faculté des Lettres, Université de Nice (guest professorship for a period of six months) - 1988: Member of the National Jury for Art Project Funding for the Media Arts Section, Canada Council - 1987-89: Member of the Steering Committee of The University of Toronto and Waterloo University Cooperative on Information Technology. - 1989: Member of the Evaluation Committee for the Visual and Media Arts section of the Ontario Arts Council 6. Honours - 1973: Recipient of the Award for Experiments in Communications at the XIIth Biennial of Sao Paolo, Brazil - 1995: Decoration from the French Government: "Palmes Académiques" - Since 1995: Member of the Club of Rome - Since 1998: Forum Fellow, World Economic Forum, Davos - 2002: 39th Annual Prize in Communications from the World Communications Laboratory in Gemona (Italy) - 2003: Award for excellence in communications research, Ericsson Enterprise, Rome Honorary degrees - 2004: Laurea d’onore, Università di Urbino, Italy - 2008: Premio della conoscenza, City of Turin, Italy 7. Professional Activities - 1969-80 : Scriptwriter and researcher for several projects with the Ontario Educational Communications Authority (OECA) - 1972-79: Associate Researcher at the Centre for Culture and Technology, University of Toronto - 1976-79 : Assistant to the Director, Graduate Centre for the Study of Drama, University of Toronto - 1978-79 : Treasurer for the Program of Cinema Studies - 1981-82 : Director, Culture and Technology Seminar, St. Michael's College, University of Toronto - March 82: Member of the Advisory Board of the McLuhan Programme in Culture and Technology, SGS. - 1983-84: Acting Director for The McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology - 1984-88 : Co-Director for The McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology - 1986: Cross-appointed to the Graduate Faculty of the Graduate Centre for the Study of Drama - 1988-89: Member of the Board of Directors, McLuhan Program - 1988-89 : Member of the Board, Innis Foundation - 1990-91: Acting Director, McLuhan Program . Member of jury for the Interactive Media Festival, Los Angeles . Member of jury for the Cyberstar Prize, Koeln . Member of jury for the Ars Electronica Art of the Web, Austria . Member of the Steering Committee of the Press/Enter exhibit, Toronto - 1991-2008: Montreal Member of the Steering Committee of Doors of Perception 3 on Information Ecology, Amsterdam - 2000-2002: Member of the Institut de Prospective of Vivendi Universal where I had the task of collecting data with the help of students on Wireless technologies and e-Commerce, The Future of Cities, The Intelligent Building, The medical conquest of lifetime, The Future of Work, Tele-education 8. Scholarly and professional activities during last 10 years - I was keynote speaker at about 20-25 conferences per year on the average since the last seven years, and guest speaker at another 20-25 per year (see sampling below for 1999-2004). - Member of juries for several Canada Chairs and Canadian Innovation Foundation grants that have successfully recommended over $20 million in awards (e.g. UQAM/Concordia collaborative on art and technology project or evaluation for projects of Québec’s FCAR, Montréal, Sept.10, 2001). - During 2002-3, I have consulted for the Department of External Affairs of the Canadian Government to develop Canada and Modernity, an exhibit now showing at the Cité des sciences et de l’industrie (Paris) to celebrate the first 400 years of France-Canada relations. - In the Fall of 2003, I was appointed co-chair, as the Canadian representative, of the Canada-Italy Business Council for ICT trade between Canada and Italy by the Department of External Affairs in Canada and the Ministero delle attivita produttive of the Italian government. Fields of research : Technopsychology, Psychotechnology, Neuro-cultural research, Art and communication technologies, Media Theory, Collaborative Educative Software, Connected Intelligence Keywords : techno-psychology, psycho-technology, media theory, art, collaborative software, connected intelligence education - The Return from Logos to (secondary) Mythos, in Guardiani, F. (edited by) What’s Next, Legas, New York, Ottawa, Toronto, Canada, 2010. - Filosofie di Avatar, in Caronia, A., Tursi, A. (edited by), Filosofie di Avatar. Immaginari, soggettività , politiche, Mimesis Edizioni, Milano, Italy, 2010. - L’uomo letterato, (October 2008) - (with Susca V., Transpolitica, ricreazioni delle culture digitali, Apogeo, 2008 - (with Tursi A.), eds., Dopo la democrazia, Apogeo, 2006 - (with Peter Eisenman, P. ; Saggio, A. The Zurich Manifesto (Furio Barzon, ed.), Testo&imagine, 2004 - (with Federman, M. ) McLuhan for Managers, New Tools for New hinking, Viking, 2003. - de Kerckhove, D. (ed.), La Conquista del tempo, Editori Riuniti, 2003. - The architecture of Intelligence (La Rivoluzione Informatica), Testo&Immagine, Torino and Basel, 2001. - Connected Intelligence, the Arrival of the Web Society, Toronto, Somerville House, 1997. - Brainframes, Technology, Mind and Business,Bosch & Keuning, Utrecht 1991. - La civilizzazione video-cristiana, Feltrinelli, Milano, 1991. - Les transinteractifs, Snvb, La Vilette, 1990. - (with C. Lumsden), The Alphabet and the Brain, Springer Verlag, 1988. - Understanding 1984, Unesco, Blackwell Publisher, Paris, 1984. - (with Iannucci, A.) McLuhan e la metamorfosi dell'uomo, Bulzoni, Roma 1984. Translated Books Connected Intelligence, Somerville Press (Toronto), 1997 (translated in Italian, Portuguese, Korean, Chinese, Spanish, Polish, French, Japanese, German, Dutch). - La pelle della cultura: indagine sulla nuova realtà elettronica, Genova, Costa & Nolan, 1996. - The Architecture of Intelligence, Birkhauser 2000 (translated in