Francisco J. Ricardo

Francisco J. Ricardo is an American media theorist and filmmaker. He is a founding editor of International Texts in Critical Media Aesthetics book series, which included his contribution The Engagement Aesthetic, published in 2013. He is known for his film F for Franco.
Early life and education
Ricardo was born in 1962 in Havana, Cuba. When he was seven, his family moved to Madrid, Spain, and two years later, to New York City. His father, an architect and professor at the University of Havana, had studied under Josef Albers during Albers's residency in Havana. His mother had been a gymnast and had founded a "Health Bauhaus" based on alternative nutrition in the United States.
Ricardo studied at Harvard University, receiving an Ed.M. He later received a PhD in Humanities Computing conferred through the University Professors Program of Boston University. At Boston University, he worked as a Research Associate. Ricardo later taught art theory at the Rhode Island School of Design.
Reception
Ricardo's approach has been acknowledged as contrary in process to narrative methods used in conventional filmmaking, often driven by his perspective as a scholar.
Of F for Franco, the phenomenological approach to generating James Franco's subjective experience is an explicitly visual part of the content, suggesting that experiences rather "facts" are being recounted. Calling it "an astute examination of the driving themes in Franco's work and a cohesive portrait of the artist," The Hollywood Reporter stated that "Ricardo's excitement about digital-media opportunities for new forms of synthesis is persuasive."
Other interests
Ricardo has a podcast, "The Mind of Francisco Ricardo.
Books and publications
* Ricardo, Francisco J. (2013). The Engagement Aesthetic: Experiencing New Media Art through Critique. Bloomsbury Publishing USA.
* Ricardo, Francisco (2010). The Object-Image. In ASPECT, Volume 15: Influence and Reference, Boston, MA
* Ricardo, Francisco J., ed. (2009). Literary Art in Digital Performance: Case Studies in New Media Art and Criticism. Bloomsbury Academic.
* Ricardo, Francisco J., ed. (2009). Cyberculture and New Media. Amsterdam: Rodopi Press.
* Ricardo, Francisco J. (2008). Spirited Gestures, Rational Views. In M. Jahn, C. Hopkins, B. Golonu (Eds.), (2009) Recipes for an Encounter. Vancouver, Canada: Western Front.

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