PROFILES OF CONTRIBUTORS
University of California Los Angeles	N. Katherine Hayles	'Deeper into the Machine: The Future of Electronic Literature' - N. Katherine Hayles is Professor of English in the English Department at the University of California Los Angeles in the US. Her many books include Chaos Bound: Orderly Disorder in Contemporary Literature and Science (Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1990), How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics (Chicago, Illinois: University of Chicago Press, 1999) and Writing Machines (Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2002).
University of Colorado	Mark Amerika	'Literary Ghosts' - Mark Amerika is Professor of Digital Art at the University of Colorado in the US. His numerous books include the novels The Kafka Chronicles (1993) and Sexual Blood (1995). In 1993, he started The Alt-X Online Publishing Network, while in 1997 he launched the GRAMMATRON hypermedia narrative project, the first part of his net art trilogy, which also includes  PHON:E:ME (1999) and FILMTEXT (2001) http://www.markamerika.com
Ohio University	Ted Striphas	' Book 2.0' - Ted Striphas is a Lecturer in the School of Interpersonal Communication at Ohio University in the US. As well as editing a special issue of the journal Cultural Studies exploring the problematics and possibilities of institutionalization, he has published in The International Journal of Cultural Studies;The Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies; Culture Machine and Cultural Studies.
University of Paisley	Andy Miah	'(e)text: Error...404 Not Found! or The Disappearance of History' - Andy Miah is Lecturer in Media, Bioethics and Cyberculture at the University of Paisley in Scotland. He is co-editor of the special book edition of the refereed journal Research in Philosophy and Technology (Elsevier Science, 2002) and author of Genetically Modified Athletes: Biomedical Ethics, Genes and Sport (London: Routledge, 2003).  His writing on various aspects of identity, gender and sexuality in cyberspace has been published in Media, Culture & Society;Spark-Online; Sp!ked; New Scientist and the Times Higher Education Supplement.
Middlesex University	Gary Hall	' The Cultural Studies e-Archive Project (Original Pirate Copy)' - Gary Hall is Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at Middlesex University, England. He is the author of Culture in Bits (London and New York: Continuum, 2002),  co-editor of Authorizing Culture (1996), Taking Risks with the Future (1999) and The University Culture Machine (2000), and general commissioning co-editor of Continuum's Technologies book series. His work has appeared in numerous journals including Parallax, Surfaces and The Oxford Literary Review, as well as the collections Psycho-Politics and Cultural Desires, eds J. Campbell and J. Harbord (London: Taylor and Francis, 1998) and The Cyborg Experiments, ed. J. Zylinska (London and New York: Continuum, 2002).
Georgia Institute of Technology	Alan Clinton	'Wavespeech, Tapespeech, Blipspeech' - Alan Clinton is currently a Brittain Fellow at Georgia Institute of Technology in the US, where he is working on a book manuscript entitled The Mechanical Occult: Automatism, Modernism, and the Specter of Politics.  He primarily publishes work concerning the influence of technology on poetry of the 20th-century.
Birkbeck College, University of London	Charlie Gere	'Can Art History Go On Without a Body?' - Charlie Gere is Lecturer in Digital Art History in the School of History of Art, Film and Visual Media at Birkbeck College, University of London, England. He is the author of Digital Culture (London: Reaktion Books, 2002). His research on art history and digital culture has appeared in numerous collections, including Computing and Visual Culture,  ed. T. Szraijber (London: CHArt, 1999), Intelligence: New British Art 2000, (London: Tate Gallery, 2000), Nothing, eds G. Gussin and E. Carpenter (London: August Books, 2001) and  Multi-London, ed. J. Kerr (London, Reaktion Books, 2002).
University of New South Wales	Anna Munster	'"This Fanciful and Colourful Image": The Image of New Media within the Contemporary Art-Science Nexus Why Read?' - Anna Munster is a Lecturer in Digital Media Theory in the School of Art History and Theory at the College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Australia. Her work has appeared in the journals Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art and CTheory, and the edited collection Fibreculture - Politics of a Digitial Present: An Inventory of Australian Net Culture, Criticism and Theory, eds H. Brown, et al. She is currently working on a book provisionally titled Disturbing the Machine: Embodiment, Aesthetics and Technology in the Time of the Digital, and together with Elspeth Probyn, editing Body-to-Body: A Corporeal Reader (London and New York:  Routledge, forthcoming). She is also a digital artist. Her online art work includes wundernet‚ which explores the relationship between baroque and digital topologies and affects. http://wundernet.cofa.unsw.edu.au
University of Technology, Sydney	Cathryn Vasseleu	What is Virtual Light?' - Cathryn Vasseleu is Lecturer in Philosophy at  the University of Technology, Sydney. She is the author of Textures of Light: Vision and Touch in Irigaray, Levinas and Mereau-Ponty (London: Routledge, 1998). Her publications also include contributions to the journals Parallax, Angelaki and Hypatia, as well as the collections Vision in Context, eds M. Jay and T. Brennan (New York: Routledge) and Vital Signs: Feminist Reconfigurations of the Bio/Logical Body, eds J. Price and M. Shildrick (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University  Press).
University of New South Wales	Chris Chesher	'Layers of Code, Layers of Subjectivity' - Chris Chesher  teaches new media theory and practice in the School of Media and Communications at the University of New South Wales, Australia. He is a facilitator on the new media and Internet studies mailing list fibreculture, and organiser of the conference 'Fibreculture 2002: Networks of Excellence' at Sydney's Museum of Contemporary Art. His work has appeared in the collections Virtual Politics: Identity and Community in Cyberspace, ed. D. Holmes (London: Sage, 1997) and Deleuze and Guattari: Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers, ed. G. Genosko (London : Routledge, 2001) and various journals including CTheory, Cultronix and Convergence.
University of Florida	Gregory L. Ulmer	'After Method: The Remake (Introduction to Ackeracy in Reporting)' - Gregory L. Ulmer is Professor of English and Media Studies at the University of Florida in the US. He is the  author of Applied Grammatology (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins,1985), Teletheory: Grammatology in the Age of Video (London: Routledge, 1989), Heuretics: The Logic of Invention (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 1994) and Internet Invention: From Literacy to Electracy (New York: Longman, 2002).
Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/ Musique	Bernard Stiegler	'Our Ailing Educational Institutions')' - Bernard Stiegler is Director of the Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique, Paris, France. He is the author of the 3 volume work La technique et le temps which includes: La technique et le temps, vol.1, la faute d'Épimethée (Paris: Galilée, 1994), La technique et le temps, vol. 2, la désorientation (Paris: Galilée, 1996), and La technique et le temps, vol. 3, le temps du cinéma (Paris: Editions Galilée, 2001). He is also co-author (with Jacques Derrida) of Echographies of Television (London: Polity Press, 2002).
Trinity and All Saints, College of the University of Leeds	Stefan Herbrechter	'Our Ailing Educational Institutions)' - Stefan Herbrechter the translator of Bernard Stiegler's essay, is Senior Lecturer in Cultural Analysis at Trinity and All Saints, College of the University of Leeds, England. His publications to date include Lawrence Durrell, Postmodernism and the Ethics of Alterity, Postmodern Studies 26 (Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 1999) and Cultural Studies: Interdisciplinarity and Translation, Critical Studies (Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2002). He is currently working, together with Ivan Callus (University of Malta), on aspects of interdisciplinarity, post-theory and posthumanism.