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Contributor Biographies:
Sara Tucker
Rachel Greene
Theresa Senft
Kathy Brew
Tina LaPorta
is Director of Digital Media at Dia Center for the Arts, where she has produced the artists' projects for the web since the series began in 1994. Tucker graduated from the University of Iowa in 1990 with degrees in German and Communications.
is the Editor of RHIZOME, an on-line publication about new media art. She was a Juror for the 1997 Casas Das Rosas Web Art Competition in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Curating experience includes "My Favorite Web Sites are Art," for a national Canadian Art Festival, and an on-line show (title forthcoming) with Heath Bunting. She has spoken about new media art at institutions including Parsons, New York University, The Slade (UK), and The Royal College of Art (UK).
is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Performance Studies at New York University. She will be finishing her dissertation in 1999 on the subject of FEMINETIQUETTE: Feminism, Performance and the Internet. Theresa has written a weekly column called "Baud Behavior" for Prodigy Internet and co-edited a Special Issue of Women & Performance devoted to the theme "Sexuality & Cyberspace: Performing the Digital Body " with Echo Founder, Stacy Horn. She is also the host of two conferences on Echo's BBS: Lambda (Queer Issues) and House of Thought (Philosophy for Beginners.)
has been working in the fields of contemporary art and media since 1975 as a producer, curator, and writer. She recently worked for two seasons as Senior Associate Producer for City Arts, WNET's weekly Emmy award-winning series on the arts, and has continued an association as an independent producer. She is the first Director of Thundergulch, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's new arts and technology initiative located in the New York Information Technology Center. She has also worked over the years with several individual artists and producers on a range of media projects, including artists Carolee Schneemann, Lynn Hershman, Victoria Vesna, and Emiko Omori.
has recently been an Artist-in-Resident at Ars Electronica's FutureLab (Linz, Austria) where she has produced a Web specific video installation titled TRACES. Most recently, her work Translate { } Expression has been included in Leonardo's Electronic Gallery (MIT press.) Tina's work is also included on several World Wide Web Sites including the ALT-X exhibition, "Being in Cyberspace," the United Nations' Fourth World Conference on Women (Beijing, China), and the Women and Performance On-Line Journal "Sexuality in Cyberspace." Last year, Ms. LaPorta produced CyberFemme TV, an experimental television series on Manhattan Cable Television.