Joanne McNeil is a writer and researcher interested in the ways technology is shaping art, politics, and society. She writes about things like broken iPhones, virtual assistants in airports, the Chelsea Manning trial, and the future of novels. Her essays and reviews have appeared in Modern Painters, Domus, Wired UK, Frieze, LA Times, Paris Review Daily, The Boston Globe, n+1, Jacobin, Dissent, and other web and print publications. She was a 2012 USC Annenberg/Getty Arts Journalism fellow. She is a contributor to Art and the Internet (Black Dog Publishing, 2014) and has written a wide range of catalog essays. Formerly the editor of Rhizome.org, she developed all content published on Rhizome News and the Rhizome blog. (2011, 2012 roundups.) Through Rhizome and with FACT, she co-curated online programming for the 2012 Liverpool Biennial. Earlier, she founded and edited the blog The Tomorrow Museum. An essay of hers was listed in The Verge’s “Best Writing of 2013.” She has lectured internationally including at Lighthouse (Brighton, UK), Centro in Mexico City, and Digital October in Moscow. She studied economics at George Mason University, where she was a University Scholar. She met the Philip K. Dick android before it lost its head. She is currently writing a book on privacy and internet culture. Enrico Boccioletti is an artist and musician based in Milan—active under multiple names (Death in Plains, 4SICSX, spcnvdr and Enrico B)—in the fields of post-conceptual, new vernacular, performance and sound. In his work he explores relations and value in networked communities; perception of the self and expectation, performance anxiety under conditions of over-exposure to information; space/time compression in the over-excited lifestyles of an accelerated culture; and reality as mediated through the screen. Exhibitions and performances include, among others: Fondazione Pastificio Cerere, Roma; 319 Scholes, New York; Istituto Svizzero di Roma, Milano; Live Arts Week/MAMbo, Bologna. He also works for Mousse Magazine and Vdrome. http://www.spcnvdr.org Kimberly Alidio is originally from Baltimore, Maryland and currently lives in Austin, TX. She is the author of Solitude Being Alien, a poetry chapbook published by Dancing Girl Press. Her critical essays appear in the Center for Art and Thought Artist-in-Residence blog, Social Text, and American Quarterly. She has published poems in several anthologies, the Center for Art and Thought, Drunken Boat, Spiral Orb, ESQUE, Bone Bouquet, Fact-Simile, Lantern Review, and Make/shift. She holds a Ph.D from the University of Michigan, and fellowships from the University of Illinois Asian American Studies Program, the National Academy of Education/ Spencer Foundation, the Naropa University Summer Writing Program, VONA/Voices of Our Nation, and the Kundiman Asian American Poetry Retreat. http://kimberlyalidio.tumblr.com Aisha Sasha John is a dance improviser and author of THOU (BookThug 2014) and The Shining Material (BookThug 2011). She lives in Toronto. http://aishasashajohn.tumblr.com Liz Kinnamon is a PhD student in Gender & Women’s Studies at the Unviersity of Arizona and currently works as online editor for Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory and managing editor for Feminist Formations.
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