Brian Holmes

Brian Holmes is an American Born (California) theorist, writer and translator living in Paris, France. He has worked with the French Graphics collective Ne Pas Plier (Do Not Bend) [ [http://subsol.c3.hu/subsol_2/contributors3/holmesbio.html Brian Holmes bio ] ] from 1999 to 2001. and the French cartography collective Bureau d'Etudes [ [http://www.countercartographies.org/activities/news/brian-holmes-visit-to-triangle.html Counter Cartographies Collective - Brian Holmes Visit to Triangle ] ] .

He holds a doctorate in Romance Languages and Literatures from the University of California at Berkeley, is the author of the book 'Hieroglyphs of the Future' [cite web | url =http://www.neural.it/nnews/hieroglyphsofthefuturee.htm |title= "Hieroglyphs of the Future - art and politics for a networked era" by Brian Holmes, WHW/Arkzin Communications, Zagreb, 2003 (ISBN 953-6542-83-8)] . He was the English editor of publications for Documenta X, Kassel, Germany, 1997. Holmes gives lectures widely in Europe and North & South America, is a frequent contributor to the international mailinglist Nettime, the art magazines Springerin [ [http://www.springerin.at/ springerin - hefte fuer gegenwartskunst ] ] (Austria) and Brumaria [ [http://www.brumaria.net/erzio/en/publication.html Brumaria.net - Publication ] ] (Spain) and the interdisciplinary journal Multitudes (France).

In recent years, Holmes has been co-organizing a series of seminars with the New York City based reading group 16 Beaver Group under the title Continental Drift [ [http://www.16beavergroup.org/drift/chapterone.htm Continental Drift a seminar with Brian Holmes ] ] , working on the issues of geopolitics and geopoetics. He maintains a blog [cite web|url=http://brianholmes.wordpress.com/ |title=Brian Holmes' blog] under the same name ('Continental Drift') with the additional subtitle 'the other side of neoliberal globalization'.

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