Mogens Jacobsen was born in Rome, Italy, but lives in Copenhagen, Denmark. Initially he studied math and later media science at the University of Copenhagen. In the 90ties he embraced the internet and became one of the pioneers in Danish net.art. In 2001 he left screen-based art and has since mainly been focusing on installations and critical eccentric artifacts. He is a founding member of the Danish art group Artnode.org (1995). Since 2010 he has be teaching at the IT University of Copenhagen.