About the Contributors

Teri Hoskin [ti@va.com.au] is a visual artist and writer. She tries to generate places where the text falls apart, where it vibrates, (wave, movement and force). This writing is integral to her practice which spans two fields; mixed media installation work for contemporary gallery spaces and site editor and assembler for the Electronic Writing Research Ensemble. Teri lives and works in Adelaide South Australia.

Oliver Lowenstein [fourthdoor@pavilion.co.uk] runs Fourth Door Review, the green cultural and new media magazine. He writes for a number of other journals and also co-ordinates 'the Cycle-Station Project, a green design and transport project. He is working on various books (though whether these will see the light of day is another matter) and teaches part-time at Falmouth College of Art.

Talan Memmott is a writer living and working in San Francisco, California. He comes to writing from a background in fine art, having studied painting, installation, video and performance art, as well as critical theory. His hypertext work has appeared in the online publications Perforations, Perihelion and Big Bridge. Memmott currently works in the multimedia field as Production Director for the web development firm PERCEPTICON and serves as Creative Director for the literary hypermedia journal BeeHive.

Tom Rodwell is from Sheffield in England, though he is currently living in New Zealand. He has a 'degree' in philosophy and English. He wiles away the hours writing, playing, and recording unusual music. He is currently making homebrew beer. It is entirely conceivable that some of his recordings may become available via his label Inutilitous Recordings. One of his e-mail addresses is thooom@hotmail.com, though there are others.

Alan Sondheim writes on and about the Internet; his work may be found at http://www.anu.edu.au/english/internet_txt. He edited Being On Line, Net Subjectivity (Lusitania, 1997) and an issue of New Observations on Cultures of Cyberspace. His latest publications were two chapbooks, The Case of the Real, Potes and Poets, 1997. Sondheim lives in Brooklyn with a cat and cacti. He will be Virtual Writer-in-Residence for trAce, from September 1999 - February 2000.

Mark Stephens is an Adelaide-based artist and writer. He has published essays and reviews for Artlink, Art Monthly and Broadsheet and also writes the occasional catalogue essay. Mark has been involved in a number of projects for the Electronic Writing and Research Ensemble(EWRE) in South Australia. The projects 'Ginger' and 'Ensemble Logic' can be found at http://ensemble.va.com.au. Credits: two lines of this scroll poem were taken from 'The passion according to GH' by Clarice Lispector. A small portion of this poem is part of an ongoing email correspondence with Teri Hoskin. I have borrowed approximately one quarter of this piece from a previous poem of mine, 'Suzerain.' This text can be found at the EWRE.

Eugene Thacker [maldoror@eden.rutgers.edu] teaches at Rutgers University and directs [techne] New Media + Digital Art. He is currently working on the body-technology relationship in biotech and genomic analysis.