Milos Rankovic is an artist and researcher currently living in Bergen (Norway). He completed his BA, MA and PhD in Fine Art in UK where, until 2006, he also taught digital art at the University of Leeds. His doctoral research study was funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), and its project website (asnakedgene.com) is archived by Rhizome.org (at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York). Apart from a group show in Bradford (UK) and Brno (Czech Republic), his recent work has so far only been shown in the several venues in California (e.g. Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University; and Los Angeles Center for Digital Art). Some of the results of his study are described in his book chapter, Frozen Complexity, in Thinking Through Art: Reflections on Art as Research, ed. by Katy MacLeod and Lin Holdridge (Routledge, 2006). A a more technical introduction, Aesthetic Selection of Naked Genes, is now available in the proceedings of ACM Multimedia Interactive Art Program 2007.

