Nicola Setari is Editor in chief of Janus magazine (www.janusonline.net). Crossdisciplinary European culture magazine created by the Belgian artist Jan Fabre. Editorial coordination of the magazine, writing texts, essays and introductions, fundraising, press contacts, financial management of the publication. Creation of network of contacts in the artistic, scientific and philosophical worlds. Publication of Janus20 (June 2006), Janus21 (December 2006), Janus22 (June 2007), forthcoming Janus23 (January 2008).
Got his PhD with the thesis: “From Iconoclasm to Iconoclash. Research in Contemporary Iconoclast Strategies” (March 2008). The thesis is dedicated to the definition of what iconoclasm is today when thought in relation to its political and religious history. The thesis focuses also on iconoclast strategies in contemporary art, with six case studies. Prof. Paolo Fabbri, who teaches semiotics of the arts at the IUAV University in Venice, is the thesis supervisor.
Invited as International Scholar in philosophy at the Catholic University of Leuven, for the academic year 2005-2006, supervised by Prof. Herman Parret.
Assistant of professor Pier Luigi Sacco at the Faculty of Arts and Design of IUAV University of Venice, for his course on Economy of the Spectacle. Directs a seminar on Régis Debray’s médiologie. (2004)
Enrollment in the MA in Media and Communication at the European Graduate School in Saas Fee, Switzerland. (www.egs.edu)
Intensive seminars with professors Jean Baudrillard Jean-Luc Nancy, Jacques Derrida, Giorgio Agamben, Alain Badiou, Avital Ronell, Hubertus von Amelunxen and Slavoj Zizek.
Previous studies in Milano, Paris and Providence