PROFILES OF CONTRIBUTORS
Italy	Bifo (Franco Beradi)	'Biopolitics and Connective Mutation ' - Bifo (Franco Beradi) has been a philosopher and political/media activist since the days of autonomia and Radio Alice. Co-founder of Rekombinant, an Italian website dedicated to new media activism (http://www.rekombinant.org/), his latest book, Il Sapiente, il Mercante, il Guerriero: dal Rifiuto di Lavoro al Cognitariato, was published by DeriveApprodi in 2004 and is currently being translated into English.
University of Western Australia	Oron Catts	'Big Pigs, Small Wings: On Genohype and Artistic Autonomy' - Oron Catts is an artist/researcher and a curator.  Co-founder and Artistic Director of SymbioticA - The Art & Science Collaborative Research Laboratory at the School of Anatomy & Human Biology, University of Western Australia, he also founded the Tissue Culture and Art Project in 1996. He has exhibited and published internationally in various books and journals, including the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, Technoetic Arts, Leonardo and Thresholds.
Macquarie University	Melinda Cooper	Melinda Cooper is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Sociology Department, Division of Society, Culture, Media and Philosophy, Macquarie University, Australia. Her work has appeared in Theory and Event, Alternatives, Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, and Theory, Culture and Society.
Scotland and Berlin	Keith Farquhar	'Peace' - Keith Farquhar is an artist working in Scotland and Berlin. He has recently exhibited at the Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London. Solo exhibitions for 2005 include Gallery Neu, Berlin; New York Arts Club and Inverleith House, Edinburgh. To view his work in depth visit www.keithfarquhar.co.uk.
Middlesex University	Andrew Goffey	Andrew Goffey is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Media, Communications and Culture at Middlesex University, England. He writes on issues concerning the relationship between philosophy, culture and society and his work has appeared in Radical Philosophy, Mediactive and M/C Journal. He is currently researching a book exploring some of the relations between the life sciences, technology and culture.
University of East London	Steve Goodman	'The Affect of Nanoterror' - Steve Goodman runs the MA Sonic Culture in the School of Cultural and Innovation Studies at the University of East London, England. He is currently editing a collection of essays by the Cybernetic Culture Research Unit (Ccru), and writing a book on sonic warfare.
Australian National  University	Maria Hynes	'Rethinking Reductionism' - Maria Hynes teaches Sociology at the Australian National University. She has written on the relationship between ethics, aesthetics and biological science. Other research interests include the politics of global resistance, with a specific focus on the use of humour for political resistance. She has an ongoing interest in the role of art in the age of terrorism.
Rice University	Hannah Landecker	'Living Differently in Time' - Hannah Landecker is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Rice University in Houston, Texas, US.  Her research interests include twentieth century cell biology, microcinematography, and the anthropology of biotechnology.  Her work has appeared in Critical Inquiry, Grey Room, Science in Context and Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences. She is currently completing a book entitled Technologies of Living Substance: Cells and Biotechnology, 1900 to Now.
University of New South Wales	Anna Munster	'Why is Bioart Not Bioterrorism?' - Anna Munster is a writer, artist and educator. She is a Senior Lecturer at the College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Australia. A facilitator of the online project 'fibreculture' (www.fibreculture.org) and a member of the 'fibreculture journal' editorial committee, she is currently completing a book for the University of New England Press on new media aesthetics and bodies entitled Materializing New Media. She is also the recipient of an Australian Research Council Discovery Grant investigating the relations between bodies and information in new media aesthetics, with particular emphasis on biotechnologies and bioart.
University of New South Wales	Andrew Murphie	'Differential Life, Perception, and the Nervous Elements' - Andrew Murphie is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Media, Film and Theatre, University of New South Wales, Australia. He has published on contemporary cultural theory, particularly the work of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, virtual media, network ecologies and digital aesthetics, performance and the visual arts, and popular music. He is the co-author with John Potts of Culture and Technology (Palgrave, 2003) and editor of the 'fibreculture journal' (http://journal.fibreculture.org/). His current research focuses on the cultural politics of models of cognition, perception and life, and he is working on three books: Mutations in the Perception of Matter: Media, Cognition, Life and the End of Modern Culture; Ghosts at the Edge of Infinity: Affect and the Limits of Theory; and Electronicas: Differential Media/Media as Difference.
University of East London	Luciana Parisi	'The Affect of Nanoterror' - Luciana Parisi runs the MA Cybernetic Culture at the School of Social Sciences, Media and Culture, University of East London, England. Her research focuses on the evolution of communication, biodigital technologies, affective perception and micropolitics of sex. She recently published Abstract Sex. Philosophy, Biotechnology and the Mutations of Desire (Continuum Press, 2004).
University of New South Wales	Kane Race	'Recreational States' - Kane Race lectures in Health, Sexuality & Culture at the University of New South Wales, Australia, where he recently completed his doctoral thesis, Pleasure Consuming Medicine. His work has appeared in a number of journals, including Australian Humanities Review, Cultural Studies Review, Social Science & Medicine and Sexualities.
University of Sussex	Julien Reid	'Immanent War, Immaterial Terror' - Julian Reid is Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Sussex, England. He has published in journals such as Space and Culture, Millennium: Journal of International Studies and Alternatives. He is currently working on two monographs that deal with the biopolitics of war: Infinite War and The Liberal Way of War (with Michael Dillon).
Georgia Institute of Technology	Eugene Thacker	'Nomos, Nosos and Bios' - Eugene Thacker is Assistant Professor in the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture at the Georgia Institute of Technology in the US. He is the author of two books: Biomedia (University of Minnesota Press, 2004) and The Global Genome (MIT Press, 2005). He also works with the Biotech Hobbyist collective.
University of Western Australia	Ionat Zurr	'Big Pigs, Small Wings: On Genohype and Artistic Autonomy' - Ionat Zurr is an artist/researcher and a curator. Exhibited Artist in residence at SymbioticA - the Art & Science Collaborative Research Laboratory at the School of Anatomy & Human Biology, University of Western Australia, he also co-founded the Tissue Culture and Art Project. He is a PhD candidate researching the ethical and epistemological implications of wet biology art practices and has published internationally in various books and journals, including the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, Technoetic Arts, Leonardo and Thresholds.