8 Track Rhapsody - Gary Genosko is Canada Research Chair in Technoculture. He specializies in the study of anti-surveillance struggles, real world hacking, and the informatics of subjugation. He has authored and edited multiple volumes on Jean Baudrillard, Félix Guattari, and Marshall McLuhan. He is editor of The Semiotic Review of Books. http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/epc/srb
Rhythms and Refrains: A Brief History of Australian Electronica - Ross Harley is Senior Lecturer in the School of English, Media and Performing Arts at the University of New South Wales, Australia. He is a new media artist whose audio/video work has been exhibited at the New York MoMA, the Pompidou Centre, the Tate Modern. He has written about contemporary music culture and technology for journals, books and popular magazines since the 1980s. Most recently he is co-author of Aviopolis: A Book About Airports (London: Black Dog Publishing, 2004).
Painting in the Light of Digital Reproduction - Dan Hays is a London based artist who has exhibited widely both nationally and internationally. In 2006 his solo exhibition, Impressions of Colorado, toured to Manchester Art Gallery, Southampton City Gallery and the Djanogly Gallery, Nottingham. It was funded by Arts Council England and the National Lottery with an accompanying exhibition catalogue, including an essay by Richard Dyer and an interview with Ben Tufnell (Southampton City Gallery, 2006). Other recent solo exhibitions include Deliverance, Void Gallery, Derry, N. Ireland, 2007, and Twilight in the Wilderness, Platform, London, 2006. His work is included in many art collections including the Tate Gallery, Walker Art Gallery, and the Arts Council Collection.
The Hallucinatory Life of Tape - Paul Hegarty teaches philosophy and cultural studies in the Department of French, University College Cork. He is author of Georges Bataille (Sage, 2000), Jean Baudrillard (Continuum, 2004) and Noise/Music (Continuum, 2007).
Vinyl is Dead, Long Live Vinyl - Greg Hainge is currently Senior Lecturer in French and Head of the French Program at the University of Queensland, Australia. He is the author of a monograph on Céline and has published numerous articles in professional journals and collected volumes on literature, film, Critical Theory and music. He is the President of the Australian Society for French Studies and serves on the editorial boards of Etudes Céliniennes and Culture, Theory and Critique-for which he recently co-edited a special issue on noise with Paul Hegarty. He is currently preparing a monograph on cultural manifestations of noise.
Rhythms and Refrains: A Brief History of Australian Electronica - Andrew Murphie is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Media, Film and Theatre, University of New South Wales, Australia. He has published on the work of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, cultural theory, virtual media, network ecologies and popular music. He is editor of the Fibreculture Journal (http://journal.fibreculture.org/). His current research focuses on the cultural politics of models of cognition, perception and life; media ecologies; and electronic music. Recent online publications include 'Differential Life, Perception and the Nervous Elements: Whitehead, Bergson and Virno on the Technics of Living' in Culture Machine (2005) and 'The Mutation of "Cognition" and the Fracturing of Modernity: cognitive technics, extended mind and cultural crisis' in Scan (2005). He is a Chief Investigator (with Dr Anna Munster) on an Australian Research Council Discovery Project, 2007-1010: Dynamic Media: innovative social and artistic developments in new media in Australia, Britain, Canada and Scandinavia since 1990.
Pulse Demons - Eugene Thacker is associate professor in the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is the author of Biomedia (University of Minnesota, 2004), The Global Genome (MIT Press, 2005), and co-author with Alex Galloway of The Exploit (University of Minnesota, 2007). His CD, Sketches for Biotech Research, is available from Extreme Records.
Mapping the Studio - Jérôme Hansen is a Belgian doctoral candidate and associate tutor in the Department of Media and Film at the University of Sussex, Brighton, UK. His dissertation explores the contemporary uses of sound in the arts and the formation of alternative sensory (sub)cultures. He is a member of the Francophone branch of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM) and has translated articles from major scholars in the field of Sound Studies. Forthcoming publications: ‘Sound Art/ Savage Art: the Creative Spaces of Phonography’, in Les Arts Moyens Aujourd’hui; ‘The Diet-ethics of Blandness: Barthes and Jullien (review essay), in The Senses & Society. http://www.sussex.ac.uk/mediastudies/profile142426.html