PROFILES OF CONTRIBUTORS
University of Kent	Dave Boothroyd	Dave Boothroyd is Lecturer in Cultural Studies at the University of Kent, England. His recent publications have appeared in a number of edited collections including The Politics of Sexuality, eds. Carver and Mottier (London: Routledge, 1998), Deconstructions: An Anthology, ed. N. Royle (London: MacMillan, 2000) and ‘Nihilism Now’: Monsters of Energy, eds. K. Ansell-Pearson & D. Morgan (London: MacMillan, 2000) and The Limits of Death. eds. Smith, Morra Robson (Manchester: M.U.P:2000) as well as in several journals including Philosophy Today, Man And World and Parallax. He is currently writing a book entitled Culture on Drugs: Narco-cultural Studies of High Modernity for Manchester University Press.
University College Northampton	Diane Morgan	Diane Morgan is Senior Lecturer in Literary and Cultural Studies at University College Northampton. She is the author of Kant Trouble (Routledge, 2000) and co-editor, with Keith Ansell-Pearson, of Nihilism Now!: Monsters of Energy (MacMillan, 2000). Other work has appeared in the journals Tekhnema and Angelaki. Her current book project is on the subject of cosmopolitics and it proposes a reevaluation of the German humanist tradition.
Center for Bioengineering MIT	Donald E. Ingber	'Interview' - Donald E. Ingber, M.D.,Ph.D. is Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School.  He is also a member of the Departments of Surgery & Pathology at Children's Hospital and of various engineering centers at Harvard and MIT.  Ingber pioneered the concept that living cells and tissues mechanically structure themselves using an architectural  system  first described by Buckminster Fuller, known as tensegrity.  In addition to his work on cell structure, he discovered TNP-470, the first angiogenesis inhibitor to enter clinical trials for the treatment of human cancer.  He also is the founder of Tensegra, Inc., a company that creates advanced medical devices with biologically inspired properties.  Ingber's paper, "The Architecture of Life", which describes his contributions to fundamental research in cell structure over the past  twenty years was published as the cover article in Scientific American in January, 1998.
Rutgers University	Ed Cohen	Poesis, Autopoesis, Autopoethics - Ed Cohen teaches cultural and gender studies at Rutgers University.  His work explores how and why complex social, political, economic, and personal relations are predicated on differential valuations of "the body" as a metonym both for human personhood generally and for individual subjects in particular.  He has written extensively on gender and sexuality including Talk on the Wilde Side: Towards a Genealogy of a Discourse on Male Sexualities (Routledge, 1993).
Princeton University	Mark Hansen	Internal Resonance, or Three Steps Towards a Non-Viral Becoming - Mark Hansen teaches cultural theory and media studies at Princeton University. He is author of Embodying Technesis: Technology Beyond Writing (Michigan, 2000). He is currently at work on two projects: a theoretical account of cultural agency in light of recent work in cognitive and biological sciences and a study of new media art focusing on the role of affect and embodiment. With Taylor Carman, he is co-editor of and contributor to the Cambridge Companion to Merleau-Ponty (forthcoming from Cambridge University Press, 2001).
Manchester Metropolitan University	Gary Banham	'Transcendental Philosophy and Artificial Life' - Gary Banham is a Research Fellow in Transcendental Philosophy Manchester Metropolitan University. He is the author of Kant and the Ends of Aesthetics (2000) and co-editor of Evil Spirits: Nihilism and the Fate of Modernity (2000) and recently co-edited a special issue of Tekhnema: Journal of Philosophy and Technology on teleology.  He is also General Editor of the new philosophy series 'Renewing Philosophy' which is in preparation with Palgrave. He is currently working on a book on Kant's practical philosophy.
S.U.N.Y at Buffalo	Mary Flanagan	'Spatialized MagnoMemories (feminist poetics of the machine)' - Mary Flanagan is an academic and experimental media maker interested in exploring gender implications at the intersection of art and science, including virtual space, the body, and narrative,especially women's stories, that are not primarily highlighted in technoculture. She teaches courses on gender and technology at SUNY (Buffalo). Particular interests include feminist gaming research, viral art, biologic art, webart, installation, and VR worlds research/construction. Recent creative works include the interactive VRMLenvironment [recovery] (1998), [The Perpetual Bed] (1998-9), and the computer virus [phage] (1999 - 2000), which creates a feminist map of the machine. Before entering university teaching, Flanagan was a producer of edutainment CD-ROMs and Web experiences in Austin TX. mary@maryflanagan.com; http://www.maryflanagan.com/
Georgia Institute of Technology	Sandy Baldwin	'Nanotechnology or SimLife (World)' - Sandy Baldwin is a Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is currently completing a book-length project on the role of mnemotechnics and the arts of memory in new media technologies. His essay in Culture Machine is the basis for an upcoming project on the topic of "technology beyond phenomenology." Sandy also creates and performs technologically-mediated experimental poetries
Purdue University	Jesse Cohn	'Believing in the Disease: Virologies and Memetics as Models of power Relations in Contemporary Science Fiction' - Jesse Cohn an assistant professor of English at Purdue University North Central, is working on a book exploring the tradition of anarchist engagement with central questions of literary theory (language, culture, aesthetics, identity, and most significantly, representation) and proposing, via a critique of that tradition, a different form of anarchist literary theory.  He welcomes email on the subject at jcohn@purduenc.edu.
Penn State University	Alex Reid	'Panoptic Technologies and their Machinic Becomings' - Alex Reid is Assistant Professor of Humanities and Writing at Penn State University. His recent work has also appeared in Theory/Event and Pre/Text.
University of New South Wales	Melinda Rackham	'carrier becoming symborg' - Melinda Rackham is a net.artist and writer living in Sydney, Australia who has been working online since the mid 1990s in the www.subtle.net domain. Her award winning web sites have been shown extensively at international festivals, and she is currently completing a Phd in Virtual Media at the College of Fine Arts, University of NSW. Visit http://www.subtle.net/exhibit.html for more details.
Concordia University	Grayson Cooke	'The face: What a horror' - Grayson Cooke is currently completing a PhD in machinic thought at Concordia University in Montreal. A multi-disciplinary producer and web designer, he also works in association with Montreal design and branding company Entechnevision <http://www.entechnevision.com/, and is currently setting up the Australasian wing of this company, Civilized Machine Productions <http://www.civilizedmachine.co.nz/.
Rutgers University	Eugene Thacker	' Lacerations: The Invisible Human Project' - Eugene Thacker <mailto:maldoror@eden.rutgers.edu teaches technology & culture at Rutgers University. His writing on bodies and technologies have recently appeared in: Ars Electronica: Lifescience (ed. Gerfried Stocker, Springer, 1999), Body Modification (ed. Mike Featherstone, Sage, 1999), and Machine Times (ed. Andreas Broeckman et al., NAI/V2, 2000), as well as the journals Art Journal, Ctheory, and Leonardo. He lives in New  York, where he is a contributing editor at The Thing, and a collaborator with Fakeshop <http://www.fakeshop.com/.