Paolo Pedercini was Born in 1981 somewhere in Northern Italy, he's currently based in Pittsburgh after surviving in Milan, studying in Troy, NY and lounging around in Brooklyn.
At the present moment he's mostly a teacher at Carnegie Mellon University, a game designer working under the project name molleindustria but he often poses as artist or new media expert. He loves independent cinema, electronic music and pretty much all the rock that you don't hear on the radio. He's an urban bike polo enthusiast and he utterly despises every other sport. He doesn't like being portrayed but here you can find a rare picture of him.

Mail:
paolo [at] molleindustria [dot] it

Twitter:
http://twitter.com/molleindustria

To download a conservative PDF CV use this link (updated 2008).

2009 - Now
Visiting professor. Teaching classes as Game Design for Artists, mavericks and troublemakers, Electronic Media Studio II (video) at Carnegie Mellon University's School of Art.

2006 - Now
Independent game designer. Developing serious and casual games for game portals, companies and associations.

2007 - 2008
Teaching assistant. Teaching basic tools from the Adobe suit at RPI, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

2005 -2007
Teacher of new media communication. Teaching Flash 8, advanced level, oriented to data visualization project at NABA, New academy of fine arts.

2006
Multimedia community specialist. Designing social software for Sky Italia.

2005 - 2006
Creative director and web developer. Creating online and "below the line" alternative marketing campaigns, designing and developing online contents for guerrilla marketing

2004 - 2005
Graphic and Web designer. Designing and developing websites and magazines for Studio Rodighiero Associati .

Pre-2004
Cartoonist/illustrator, letterman, grocery store associate, steelworker, fast food crew, food worker, plastic worker.

2007 - 2009
MFA, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) Integrated Electronic Arts
Areas of Specialization:
experimental game design, video, tactical media.

2001 - 2004
BA, Libera Accademia di Belle Arti (LABA)
Visual arts and multimedia communications
Areas of Specialization:
Web/interaction design, net.art, new media.

2010

Memory Reloaded: the downfall

A hacked matching game for these unstable times.
Online game


Inside a dead skyscraper

Exploratory game based on a song.
Music video game


Run Jesus Run

The life of Jesus in 10 seconds and 8 bits.
Christian game

2009

Every day the same dream

A existential game about alienation and refusal of labor.
Online game


Ergon / Logos

Fast-paced, text-based non-linear avantgardish stream of consciousness.
Unidentified playable object

Welcome to the desert of the real

Reverse propaganda video about post-traumatic stress disorder filmed with the recruiting game America's Army.
Machinima video 6'

The 21st Century Home

An inflatable, no-tech, blacklight-powered, Real Virtuality experience.
Immersive installation

2008

Missed connections

A forensics investigation of physical disconnection based on classified ads found on craigslist.
Experimental Video 7'

Oiligarchy

A commentary on oil industry, lobbying and fossil fuel depletion.
Online game

Permitted Habitats

Interactive map of genetically modified organisms released for field tests from 1987 to 2008. Collaboration with Center for PostNatural History.
Data visualization

The Free Culture Game

Playable theory about the struggle between free culture and copyright.
Online game

Faith Fighter

A cathartic tool for religious hate.
Online game

2007

Terminal Air

Dynamic mapping of flights involved in the CIA extraordinary rendition program. Collaboration with Institute for Applied Autonomy and Trevor Paglen.
Data visualization

Serpica Naro Lab

Online community for independent open source fashion. Collaboration with Serpica Naro collective.
Alternative web 2.0 platform

Operation Pedopriest

Newsgame about child abuses within the clergy.
Online game

2006

McDonald's Videogame

Anti-advergame highlighting the unethical practices of the fast food company.
Online game

2005

Where Next

Online platform for betting on terrorist attacks inspired by an actual DARPA program. Collaboration with guerrigliamarketing
Net.art project

Embrioni in fuga (Embrio Run)

Propaganda game for a referendum on stem cell research.
Online game

Ricordibastardi
The first Italian mash up album. 14 tracks remixing classic italian songwriters and modern pop-rock songs. Illegal record

2004

Enduring Indymedia

Instant game about the seizure of Indymedia server hardware.
Online game

MayDay NetParade

Virtual parade for the precarious workers. Collaboration with Chainworkers
Net.art project

Queer Power
A queer detournement of the fighting game genre.
Online game

Papa Parolibero

Satirical tool deconstructing the language of the Catholic establishment.
Software toy

2003

Tuboflex

Dystopic commentary of precarious labor.
Online game

Orgasm Simulator
Sex themed rhythm game about a subtle form of gender oppression.
Online game

Tamatipico

Virtual pet parody about the exploitation and control of a worker.
Online game

Media contagiosi
(Contagious media)
A short pop essay about viral media.
Published in Skizomedia by Franco "bifo" Berardi, derive/approdi 2006.

7 Giorni in una seconda vita
(7 days in a second life)
One of the first critical reportage about Second Life and MMORPGs.
Published in Cluster magazine 2005.

Radical game design
Notes on video game rethorics.
Published in A mínima / revista de arte y nuevas tecnologías 2006

Paolo Pedercini runs a blog on video games and politics and occasionally writes for neural magazine and videoludica. He contributed to the book Second Life by Mario Gerosa (Meltemi Editore, 2007) and is in the scientific comitee of the exhibition Avatar: an experience in the virtual world at Museo Tridentino di Scienze Naturali of Trento.
Selected articles from neural (English).....

Paolo's work has been covered by most of the Italian major newspapers and magazines and on several international media as The Guardian, El Pais, BBC, Liberation, LA Times, Le Monde, Der Standard, Washington Post, EDGE, Business Week, Playboy Brazil, Gamasutra, Wired, CNET among the others.

The Molleindustria project is featured in the books:

Games of Empire: Global Capitalism and Video Games by Nick Dyer-Witheford and Greig de Peuter (Univ Of Minnesota Press 2009)

Persuasive Games: The Expressive Power of Video Games by Ian Bogost (MIT press 2007)

Networking: la rete come arte by Tatiana Bazzichelli (Costa & Nolan 2006)

Tactical Media by Rita Raley (U. of Minnesota Press, 2009)

Das Spiel und seine Grenzen by Mathias Fuchs and Ernst Strouhal (2010)

Steal this computer book 4.0 By Wallace Wang (No Starch Press, 2006).


Paolo Pedercini appears in the documentaries Playing Columbine and Culture Jamming: Media Actionism in the 21th Century.