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Ethan J. Leib, Ph.D. |
is assistant professor of Law at the Hastings College of Law, University of California in San Francisco (beginning in July 2005). His recent work includes Deliberative Democracy in America (Penn State University Press, 2004)
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McKenzie Wark, Ph.D. |
is professor of Cultural and Media Studies at the Lang
College, New School University in New York City. His recent works include A
Hacker Manifesto (Harvard
University Press, 2004), Dispositions (Salt Books, 2002) and Virtual
Geography (Indiana University Press, 1994).
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Juan Bruce-Novoa, Ph.D. |
is professor of Spanish and
Portuguese at the University of California at Irvine. His recent works include Only The Good Times (Arte
Público Press, 1995) and RetroSpace: Collected Essays on Chicano Literature
(Arte Público Press, 1990).
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Constantine Sandis |
is
about to submit his PhD on The Things we Do and Why we Do Them at the University
of Reading. He also teaches in the Philosophy Department there, as well as at
the University of Bath (Division of Lifelong-Learning), and for the Royal
Institute of Philosophy. See also:
http://www.sandisproductions.com/
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Robert Pepperell |
Robert
Pepperell is a member of Polar (The Posthuman Laboratory for Arts Research) and
a lecturer in Contemporary Art Theory at University of Wales College,
Newport. He is also associate
editor of Leonardo Reviews.
His works include The Posthuman Condition (Intellect, 1995) and The
Postdigital Membrane (Intellect, 2000) in collaboration with Michael Punt.
A revised version of his first book, entitled The Posthhuman Condition:
Consciousness Beyond the Brain, has also recently been published
(Intellect, 2003).
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Thorsten Botz-Bornstein, Ph.D. |
is
currently a visiting/teaching scholar in
the department of Philosophy at Zhejiang University in China. Previously he was lecturer in Pan-Asian
Studies at Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, France. His recent books include Place
and Dream: Japan and the Virtual (Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, 2003),
and his work has appeared in Cinetext, Ctheory.net, Film-Philosophy
International Salon-Journal and others.
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Michael H. Goldhaber |
Is
completing a book on the attention economy. His work has appeared in journals such as First Monday,
Wired.com, Telepolis and others.
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Jason Sperb |
is a DeRoy fellow and
doctoral student in English at Wayne State University. He holds a master’s in Film Studies
(Oklahoma State University, 2004).
His work has recently appeared in the Quarterly Review of Film and
Video.
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Harry Polkinhorn, Ph.D. |
Professor
of English, San Diego State University
Harry Polkinhorn is an experimental
poet/artist, translator, and editor whose works have been exhibited and published
worldwide. He has published over thirty books of poetry, fiction, translation,
and edited collections. His areas of scholarly interest focus on the
international avant-garde and the culture of the U.S.-Mexico border region. He
has translated works from Italian, Portuguese, German, and Spanish. Blue Shift
(a book-length poem) was published by Ex Nihilo Press, San Francisco (1999). He
is currently preparing a bilingual English/Spanish anthology of poetry by Baja
California poets to be published by Junction Press. He was educated at the
University of California, SDSU, New York University, the Kunstgewerbeschule of
the City of Zürich, and Pacifica Graduate Institute. He is a permanent visiting
professor in the Ph.D. program in Semiotics and Communication of the Pontifical
Catholic University of Sãão Paulo, Brazil. He is Director of San Diego State
Press.
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August Highland |
August Highland's work has
appeared in Harvard's visual poetry exhibition, "Errata and
Contradiction" Spring 2004, milkmag.org, interpoetry.com and others. He says of his visual poetry,
"Whether my paintings are hung in homes, galleries, museums, hotels, or
corporations, I want my paintings to remind people of their
greatness." For more on
August Highland:
www.august-highland.com
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Anton Karl Kozlovic |
is a Ph.D. candidate in Screen Studies,
School of Humanities, The Flinders University of South Australia. He is interested in Religion-and-Film,
Interreligious Dialogue, DeMille Studies, Computer Films and Popular Culture.
He is currently writing a doctoral dissertation on the biblical cinema of Cecil
B. DeMille and is the co-editor of the forthcoming book Religion and Popular Culture.
He has published articles in Australian Religion Studies Review,
Compass: A Review of Topical Theological, Counterpoints: The Flinders
University Online Journal of Interdisciplinary Conference Papers, The Furrow: A
Journal for the Contemporary Church, Effective Teaching, Journal of Christian
Education, Journal of Contemporary Religion, Journal of Mundane Behavior,
Journal of Religion and Popular Culture, Journal of Religious Education, The
Journal of Religion and Film, Kinema: A Journal for Film and Audiovisual Media,
Labyrinth: An International Journal for Philosophy, Feminist Theory and
Cultural Hermeneutics, Latent Image: A Student Journal of Film Criticism,
Marburg Journal of Religion, Metaphilm, Nowa Fantastyka, Organdi Quarterly,
Quodlibet: Online Journal of Christian Theology and Philosophy, Reconstruction:
Studies in Contemporary Culture, Religious Education Journal of Australia,
Science as Culture, Teaching Sociology and 24 Frames Per Second. His latest
critical entries and book chapters have been published in The Wallflower
Critical Guide to Contemporary North American Directors (Allon, Y., Cullen, D.,
& Patterson, H., 2001) and Sex, Religion, Media (Claussen, D. S., 2002). He can be contacted at either
Anton.Kozlovic@flinders.edu.au or AntonKozlovic@hotmail.com.
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Temenuga Trifonova, Ph.D. |
is a lecturer in Film and Digital Media
at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She has written on film theory, time in contemporary cinema,
special effects, science fiction cinema, film remakes, the postmodern sublime,
Continental philosophy and American literature. Her articles have appeared in International Studies in
Philosophy, Postmodern Culture, SubStance, Quarterly Journal of Film and Video,
CineAction, Kinema: a Journal for Film and Audiovisual Media, Film and
Philosophy and others.
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Catharina Landström,
Ph.D. |
is a researcher in the Dept. of History of
Ideas and Theory of Science, Göteborg University, in Sweden.
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Alan Sondheim’s |
books include the anthology Being
on Line: Net Subjectivity (Lusitania, 1996), Disorders of the Real (Station
Hill, 1988), and .echo (alt-X digital arts, 2001) as well as numerous other
chapbooks, ebooks, and articles. His videos and films have been shown
internationally. Sondheim co-moderates several email lists, including
Cybermind, Cyberculture, and Wryting. For the past decade, he has been working
on an "Internet Text," a continuous meditation on philosophy,
psychology, language, body, and virtuality. Sondheim lives in Brooklyn; he
lectures and publishes widely on contemporary art and Internet issues. In 1999,
Sondheim was the second virtual writer-in-residence for the trAce (sic) online
writing community (Nottingham, England). He is currently associate editor of
the online magazine Beehive, and one of the editors of Nettime's Unstable
Digest. In 2001, Sondheim assembled a special topic for the America Book Review
on Codework. His video/soundwork has often been screened at Millennium Film
(NYC), as well as a number of other venues. Sondheim teaches in the trAce
online writing program; in 2000-2001 he taught new media at Florida
International University in Miami. He currently works in video, cdrom,
performance, sound, and text, often in collaboration with Azure Carter, Foofwa
d'Imobilite, and others.
Relevant URLS:
http://www.asondheim.org/
Trace Projects at http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/writers/sondheim/index.htm
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James Charles Fox, Jr. |
received his B.A.
(1999) in Creative Writing from the University of New Orleans in Louisiana
and Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. He will receive
his M.A. (2005) in English, with a specialization in Writing, from
the State University of New York at Albany. Two of his one-act
plays, Penguin Politics (1997) and To Hope Against Hope (2004),
were produced at the University of New Orleans where he also received the
2004 Academy of American Poets College Prize for "Camille" and
"On Waking", featured in the Ellipsis literary magazine,
issue 32 (2004). He is currently working on
an experimental film based on the cinematographic poetry and
poetics of Louis Zukofsky.
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Paula Murphy |
is currently completing her doctoral
thesis in Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, Ireland entitled,
‘The Post-Millenial Self’. Her
areas of specialization are contemporary Irish literature and film, Lacanian
psychoanalytic theory and film theory.
She has given many papers on
these topics and has chapters forthcoming in ‘Spec(tac)ular Society: French
Theory Interpreting Globalisation’ in Globalisation
and France (2004, New York: Peter Verlang) and ‘From Post-Industrial to
Post-Modern: the Changing Face of Irish Cinema’ in Engaging Post-Modernity (2005, London: Pluto Press).
http://www.mic.ul.ie/english/Paula's
Home Page.htm
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Nicholas Ruiz III |
is a graduate teaching instructor
and doctoral student in the Interdisciplinary Program in the Humanities at
Florida State University. His
areas of interest include global capital, critical theory, culture and society;
his work has appeared in Rhizomes.net,
Reconstruction, Media/Culture.org.au and The International Journal of Baudrillard
Studies. He holds a
master’s in Liberal Arts (University of North Carolina, 2003) and a
baccalaureate in Molecular and Microbiology (University of Central Florida,
1996). He is also the editor of Kritikos.
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David J. Tremblay |
MFA candidate, Columbia College
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Kyle A. Wiggins |
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Jayne Fenton Keane (JFK) |
for further info, please visit her website, “The Stalking Tongue” at www.poetinresidence.com JFK is also a Ph.D. student in Poetry at Griffith University in Australia.
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