Sergio Messina

Sergio Messina (September 18, 1959) is an Italian musician, radio maker, writer, teacher and tech critic.

In 1989 his no copyright, self distributed song Radiogladio got him international attention. Subsequently he produced "Curre curre guaglio"', 99 Posse's debut album, and then his own "La Vendetta del Mulino Bianco". As a remixer he's worked with many italian musicians, including Avion Travel, Casino Royale and Elio e le Storie Tese. His Radio art works have been produced and broadcasted by many stations worldwide since the late 80es, including the Italian RAI and the Austrian ORF. Since 1996 Messina has a page on the underground music magazine Rumore, and since 2003 he's a regular contributor and columnist for the Italian edition of Rolling Stone magazine, where he has a monthly column on alternative sexualities. He coordinates the Sound Design course at Istituto Europeo di Design in Milano, where he also teaches History of Pop Culture. Since 2000 he's researching on Realcore (his own term), digital amateur pornography freely distributed online; he presents this research in a live show entitled Realcore: the digital porno revolution. Mark Dery wrote in 2006: "Messina, 47, is the Margaret Mead of alt sex on the Internet."

References:

*cite paper | author=Jacobs, Katrien; Pasquinelli, Matteo; Jannsen, Marie | title=C'lick Me - A Netporn Studies Reader ISBN 978-90-78146-03-2 | publisher="Institute of Network Cultures" | date=2007 | url= | accessdate=

External links

* [http://www.sergiomessina.com/index.html Sergio Messina's homepage]
* [http://www.rollingstonemagazine.it/list.php?sezioneID=33 His Rolling Stone column]
* [http://www.kunstradio.at/BIOS/messinabio.html ORF Kunstradio page]
* [http://www.networkcultures.org/clickme/index.php?onderdeelID=18&paginaID=80 Interview with Mark Dery on C'lick Me - A Netporn Studies Reader (in pdf)]