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Fran Ilich, a writer and media-artist, is the author of the novels Metro-Pop and Tekno Guerrilla. He has directed 2 seminars on digital and media narrative for Universidad Internacional de Andalucía, in Seville. He has taken part in the Berlinale Talent Campus, the Walker Art Center, ARCO, Big Torino, the Streaming Cinema festival, Antídoto (International Seminar of Cultural Initiatives in Areas of Conflict), Interactive Frictions and Transmediale, to quote some.

He was the editor @ large of the magazine Sputnik Cultura Digital and the scriptwriter for Interacción (Discovery Channel).

He has directed festivals such as Cinemátik 1.0, <net.net.net.mx> and Borderhack. He was one of the co-organisers of the Make World festival (Munich) and the curator of the electronic music programme at the 2nd Independent Record Labels Fair (Mexico). He founded the Nettime-lat mailing list and worked as a researcher in the Open Business project (FGV Brasil).

He has been a guest professor in the interdisciplinary master's degree in Latin American studies (Universität Wien and Latinamerika Institut). He is currently studying Latin American Studies at Alliant International University and in charge of administrating the server possibleworlds.org, which he launched as a project for the Sixth Declaration of the Lacandon Jungle by the Zapatist National Liberation Army. He was invited to participate in the Documenta 12 Programme with the publication Sab0t.