Editorial Board

The team is supported by an international Editorial Advisory Board of new media writers, artists and critics sharing a background of practice on the web:

Editorial Advisory Board
Andy Campbell
John Cayley
Sean Cubitt
Claire Dinsmore
Carolyn Guertin
Deena Larsen
Talan Memmott
Kate Pullinger
Rita Raley
Martin Rieser
Alan Sondheim
Rob Wittig

Andy Campbell
Andy Campbell is a writer and web artist who creates work mainly for the internet. He works extensively with reader development agency Opening the Book Ltd www.openingthebook.com, in collaborative video and new media with One to One Productions www.one2one-connected.com and has created a website called Digital Fiction www.digitalfiction.co.uk which aims to explore the possibilities of multimedia narratives.

John Cayley
John Cayley is a London-based poet, translator and publisher. He is the founding editor of Wellsweep, a small press which has specialised in literary translation from Chinese, and he is known internationally for his writing in networked and programmable media (www.shadoof.net/in). Cayley is the recent winner of the Electronic Literature Organization's Award for Poetry 2001 (www.eliterature.org). His last book of poems, adaptations and translations is 'Ink Bamboo' (London: Agenda & Belew, 1996). Cayley has lectured on the writing programme at the University of California, San Diego, where he was also a Research Associate of the Center for Research in Computing and the Arts (CRCA). He is an Honorary Research Associate in the Department of English, Royal Holloway College, University of London, and an Honorary Fellow of Dartington College of Arts, closely associated with their Performance

Sean Cubitt
Sean Cubitt is Professor of Screen and Media Studies at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. Previously Professor of Media Arts at Liverpool John Moores University, he is the author of Timeshift: On Video Culture (Comedia/Routledge, 1991), Videography: Video Media as Art and Culture (Macmillans/St Martins Press, 1993), Digital Aesthetics (Theory, Culture and Society/Sage, 1998) and Simulation and Social Theory (Theory, Culture and Society/ Sage, 2001) as well as nearly 300 articles, chapters, papers and catalogue essays on contemporary arts, culture and media. He has edited "Third World Wide Web", a special edition of Third Text (n.47, Summer 1999) on new media in non-Western contexts, and co-edited 'FX, CGI and the question of spectacle", a special issue of Screen (v.40 n.2, Summer) with John Caughie, and "Fictions and Futures", a special issue of Futures (v.30 n.10, December) with Ziauddin Sardar. A member of the editorial boards of Screen, Third Text, The International Journal of Cultural Studies, Futures, Time and Society and the Journal of Visual Communication, Leonardo Digital Reviews, the Iowa Web Review, and most recently trAce. He has lectured and taught on four continents, and his work has been published in Hebrew, Arabic, Korean and Japanese as well as several European languages in publications from Latin and North America, Europe, Asia and Australasia. He is currently working on a book, FX: Time and the Cinema of Special Effects for MIT Press and coediting Aliens R Us: Postcolonial Science Fiction with Ziauddin Sardar for Pluto Press and The Third Text Reader with Rasheed Araeen and Ziauddin Sardar for Athlone/Continuum. He has also curated video and new media exhibitions and authored videos, courseware and creative hypertext, one at the Slade School in London and another at the University of Waikato. He can be contacted at seanc@waikato.ac.nz.

Claire Dinsmore
Claire Allan Dinsmore is the freelance Assistant Web Editor for trAce and the trAce School. She is the creator of the award winning site Another Form of Intervention and the editor and designer of cauldron & net: an electronic journal of the arts & new media. She has completed MFA studies at Cranbrook Academy of Art and holds a BFA from Parsons School of Design/The New School for Social Research. Ms. Dinsmore has exhibited worldwide and has been published as an artist, critic, essayist and poet. She is listed in Who's Who of the East, Who's Who of American Women, and The World Who's Who of Women. Her work is in the permanent collections of the American Craft Museum, The National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, The Montreal Museum of Art, and The Dursky Museum, as well as within numerous private collections. In 1999 she was selected as a Pushcart Prize nominee for her text poetry. Presently she is a web designer and president of Studio Cleo where she works as a new media artist and indulges herself in such anachronistic pursuits as bookmaking and metalwork.

Carolyn Guertin
Carolyn Guertin is a poet and scholar of the new media arts, specializing in the feminist avant-garde, at the University of Alberta, Canada. Curator of Assemblage: The Women's New Media Gallery and inhabiting a studio at the trAce Online Writing Centre, her own creative and critical works have been published internationally in print and online. She is also a literary adviser to the Electronic Literature Organization
http://www.ualberta.ca/~cguertin/

Deena Larsen
Deena Larsen is a confirmed hypertext/new media addict who is subversively trying to get others to share her dangerous addictions. She has co-hosted the trAce/ELO chats with Helen Whitehead and organized many writers workshops both online and in person.
http://www.deenalarsen.net

Talan Memmott
Talan Memmott is a hypermedia artist/writer from San Francisco, California. He is the Creative Director and Editor of the online hypermedia literary journal BeeHive as well as BeeHive's new ebook project - Microtitles. His own hypermedia work has appeared widely on the Internet. In 2001 he was awarded the trAce/Alt-X New Media Writing Award for his work "Lexia to Perplexia", which also received honorable mention for the Electronic Literature Organization's award in fiction. He is a tutor for the trAce Online Writing School, and has been a speaker, panelist, reader and performer at various Conferences and Universities.
memmott.org/talan

Kate Pullinger
Kate Pullinger has been working as a print-based writer since 1988. Her books include the novels The Last Time I Saw Jane, Where Does Kissing End?, and, most recently, Weird Sister, as well as the short story collection, My Life as a Girl in a Men's Prison. She co-wrote the novel of the film 'The Piano' with director Jane Campion. Kate Pullinger also writes for film and television; her feature-length screenplay 'Lily' is currently in development with Box TV. She has lectured and taught widely. In 1995/96 she was Judith E Wilson Visiting Fellow at Jesus College, Cambridge; she currently teaches undergraduates at Randolph Macon Women's College at the University of Reading, is an advisor for the University of Middlesex Creative Writing MA, and is visiting Writing Fellow at The Women's Library, London Guildhall University. She is also a Research Fellow at trAce, looking at forms of online narrative and new media writing.
http://www.katepullinger.com

Rita Raley
Rita Raley is Assistant Professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she teaches courses in the digital humanities and global literary studies. She is completing work on one book, Global English and the Academy, and also currently at work on a book about digital textuality. Her most recent articles address hypertext and performance; the electronic empire; codework; and the rhetoric of digital media. Her ancillary research topics include codework, net.art, machine translation, courseware, and molecular computing.

Martin Rieser
Initially educated in English Literature and subsequently in Fine Art. He has exhibited internationally using a variety of media, including graphic arts and photography. He works as a lecturer,writer and media artist. He curated The Electronic Print (Arnolfini 1989), and directed Media Myth & Mania for the Silver to Silicon CD-ROM (1993), exhibited at Watershed Gallery (Bristol), Focal Point Gallery (Southend), Photographer's Gallery, London, ICA ( London), Milia(Cannes). Interactive exhibitions include Screening the Virus website (ArtAids 1996), Understanding Echo, Interactive installation (Cheltenham Festival of Literature 2000) and Labyrinth, CD-ROM and installation 1998 (F-Stop, Bath), Electronic Forest interactive installation 1990-91 (Prema/Bristol). He has presented papers and work at international conferences including the Oberhausen Kurzfilmtage, Germany 1997, ISEA 95 Montreal, ISEA 96 Rotterdam, ISEA 97 Chicago, Creativity and Cognition 1999. He has been involved with digital media as an electronic artist since 1981 and has worked intensively with interactive multimedia for the past ten years. Currently he is Senior Lecturer in Digital Media at Bath Spa University, formerly he lectured at Napier University Edinburgh and the University of the West of England, Bristol.

Alan Sondheim
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, books and articles. His videos and films have been shown internationally.
Sondheim co-moderates several email lists, including Cybermind, Cyberculture, and Wryting. For the past several years, he has been working on an "Internet Text," a continuous meditation on philosophy, psychology, language, body, sexuality, 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, originating in Nottingham, England. He is currently Associate Editor of the online magazine Beehive, and assembled a special topic for the America Book Review on Codework. His video/soundwork has been recently screened at Millennium Film (NYC), as well as a number of universities and other venues. Sondheim teaches in the trAce online writing program, and last year was at Florida International University in Miami. He currently works in video, cdrom, performance, sound, and text, often in collaboration.

Relevant URLS:
Work at http://www.anu.edu.au/english/internet_txt
Older at http://lists.village.virginia.edu/~spoons/internet_txt.html
Trace Projects at http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/writers/sondheim/index.htm
CDROM of collected work 1994-2002 available: write sondheim@panix.com

Rob Wittig
Electronic author Rob Wittig's background includes a 1987 Fulbright Scholarship to Paris to study technical, artistic, and theoretical aspects of creating visual/verbal literary works with online publishing technologies, on the invitation of Jacques Derrida, Jean-Francois Lyotard, and the Centre Georges Pompidou. In the early 1980s Rob co-founded IN.S.OMNIA, an literary electronic bulletin board system deemed 'legendary' by cyber-chronicler Howard Rheingold. Rob's book, "Invisible Rendezvous, Connection and Collaboration in the New Landscape of Electronic Writing", Wesleyan University Press, 1994, is an analysis of these spirited projects. Rob now directs TANK20_language_arts (www.tank20.com) an electronic literature publisher, and teaches in both literature and graphic design programs.