Participant Biographies
 Allucquére Rosanne "Sandy" Stone is Associate Professor and Founding Director of the Advanced Communication Technologies Laboratory (ACTLab) and the Convergent Media program of the University of Texas at Austin; Senior Artist at the Banff Centre for the Arts; and Fellow of the Humanities Research Institute, University of California, Irvine. In various incarnations she has been a filmmaker, rock 'n roll music engineer, neurologist, social scientist, cultural theorist, and performer. She is the author of numerous publications including The Empire Strikes Back: A Posttranssexual Manifesto, and The War of Desire and Technology at the Close of the Mechanical Age, both of which are available in a wide selection of translated editions. She lives in Austin, Texas and Santa Cruz, California with her husband Cynbe ru Taren (aka Jeffrey Prothero) and their cat, /dev/cat. |
 Sandy Baldwin (Ph.D, New York University) is Assistant Professor of English and Director of the Center for Literary Computing at West Virginia University. Under his leadership, the CLC develops projects such as: The Phenomenology of the Virtual, an ongoing collaboration with the artist/theorist Alan Sondheim on experience and performance in virtual environments; The Plain_Text Project, facilitating discussion and debate on the agency and programming of writing technologies; ongoing collaborations with the Electronic Poetry Center at SUNY Buffalo, including co-organizing and hosting recent E-Poetry Festivals and Symposia; a series of digital cultural archiving and hosting projects, through partnerships with UbuWeb, Spoons, Cyhist (Community Memory), wryting-l, and others; "the loop," a website for creative hypermedia, curated and designed in cooperation with the WVU MFA program; as well as a number of other projects specific to WVU. Baldwin's own research focuses on digital literature, especially poetry, and on the cultural studies of new media. He has a forthcoming book on nanotechnology and cultural theory, another forthcoming book co-written with Alan Sondheim on the analog and the digital, and another book in progress on codework and poetics. Baldwin was a member of several groups pioneering chat room poetry and performance in the early 1990's, with widely published work and performances around the world (including at Lollapalooza). His own codework and processed poetry is widely published in print and online. His recent creative work, featured in multimedia publications and as the subject of essays and conference papers, focuses on 1) interactive spatial poetry in computer game environments; and 2) hybrids of machinima, video, and codework. |
 Jay David Bolter is Director of the Wesley New Media Center and Wesley Chair of New Media in the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His work with computers led in 1984 to the publication of Turing's Man: Western Culture in the Computer Age, a book that was widely reviewed and translated into several foreign languages. Bolter's second book, Writing Space: The Computer, Hypertext, and the History of Writing, published in 1991 (second edition 2001), examines the computer as a new medium for symbolic communication. Together with Michael Joyce, Bolter is the author of Storyspace, a program for creating hypertexts for individual use and World Wide Web publication. In Remediation (MIT Press), written in collaboration with Richard Grusin, Bolter explores the ways in which new digital media, such as the World Wide Web and virtual reality, borrow from and seek to rival such earlier media as television, film, photography, and print In the Fall of 2003, MIT Press published Windows and Mirrors, a book written in collaboration with Diane Gromala on the significance of digital art for the new media revolution. In addition to writing about new media, Bolter is collaborating to construct new digital media forms. Together with Blair Macintyre, he is building an Augmented Reality (AR) system for informal education, art and entertainment. |
 Matthew G. Kirschenbaum is Associate Director of the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities and Assistant Professor of English at the University of Maryland, where he specializes in digital studies, applied humanities computing, images and visual culture, and postmodern/experimental literature. He has a Ph.D. in English from the University of Virginia, and was trained in humanities computing at Virginia's Electronic Text Center and Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities. His dissertation was the first electronic dissertation in the English department at Virginia and one of the very first in the nation. Kirschenbaum's current book project is entitled Mechanisms: New Media and the Forensic Textuality. The manuscript is under contract to the MIT Press and will be out in Fall 2007. He is a Project Director for nora, a multi-institutional Mellon-funded initiative to develop advanced text mining and visualization tools for digital humanities collections. With Amit Kumar, he developed the Virtual Lightbox, an online tool for image comparison. He is Articles Editor for Digital Humanities Quarterly and sits on the Board of Directors of the Electronic Literature Organization, as well as on the editorial boards of Postmodern Culture, Textual Cultures, and Text Technology.
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 Tom Lamarre is currently a professor in the Departments of East Asian Studies and Art History & Communication Studies at McGill University. His research interests lie in the History of Thought, History of Media, and Aesthetics. His first book, Uncovering Heian Japan: An Archaeology of Sensation and Inscription (2000), looked the relations between calligraphic inscription and cosmopolitanism in early Japan. His second book, Shadows on the Screen: Tanizaki Jun'ichirô on Cinema and Oriental Aesthetics (2005), deals with silent film, film theory and literature of the 1920s, centering on the film work of Tanizaki. He has recently completed a book on Japanese animation and new media entitled Difference in Motion: Varieties of Anime Experience. |
 Margaret Morse is a Professor of Film and Digital Media and Chair of the Digital Art/New Media M.F.A. program at the University of California at Santa Cruz. She has published numerous articles on media art and culture as well as two books: Virtualities: Television, Media Art and Cyberculture (Indian UP 1998) addresses the cultural shift from electronic to digital culture; Hardware, Software, Artware (Cantz Verlag & ZKM 1997) presents the work of new media and digital artists who had residencies at the ZKM in Germany. She has two books in progress, a monograph on Leni Riefenstahl's Triumph of the Will and an update on shifts in digital culture after the late 1990's. She is co-editor of the new University of California Press series Technoculture and the Arts. |