James DiGiovanna

James DiGiovanna is an award-winning film reviewer and filmmaker, and the author of a number of published short stories. Together with Bob Grimm, he is one of two Cinema Writers on the staff of Tucson Weekly. >, Tucson Weekly Masthead He is currently an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Department of Philosophy at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

Education

DiGiovanna received his PhD from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 2001. >, Stony Brook Philosophy Doctorates, Dissertations, and Degree Dates His doctoral thesis, Ethics and Aesthetics of Self-Creation, is an exploration of the idea, in Pico, Milton, Blake, Kierkegaard and Nietzsche, that humans are tasked with creating themselves.

Professional Work

DiGiovanna co-wrote, directed, and produced the film A Forked World (2004) together with Carey Burtt. >, IMDb Profile of A Forked World, 2004.

Currently, DiGiovanna teaches at Stony Brook's Manhattan graduate program in Philosophy of Art, and is working on the question of the creation of worlds in art and the effect of neural interface technologies and mechanical prostheses on identity and self realization.

He is also the Pop Culture Expert Editor at Amazon.com, for which he writes five reviews monthly and a newsletter. His writing, which appears regularly in the Tucson Weekly, includes an article in High Noon On The Electronic Frontier (MIT Press) and a story in 20 X 18 (Cooper Union Press).

Publications and Articles

• DiGiovanna, James. 1996. "Losing Your Voice on the Internet" in High Noon on the Electronic Frontier: Conceptual Issues in Cyberspace (Cambridge, MA: MIT).

References

External links

• > - IMDb Profile of James DiGiovanna

• > - Tucson Weekly archive of published reviews.

• > - Rotten Tomatoes archive of published reviews.

• > - "The Exam" by James DiGiovanna

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