editorial collective:
Autonomedia (USA)
Geoff Cox (UK)
Joasia Krysa (UK/PL)
Anya Lewin (USA/UK)
Malcolm Miles (UK)
Hugo de Rijke (UK)
Autonomedia
Autonomedia is an autonomous zone for arts radicals in both old and new media.
They publish books on radical media, politics and the arts that seek to transcend party lines, bottom lines and straight lines.
They also maintain the Interactivist Info Exchange, an online forum for discourse and debate on themes relevant to the books they publish.
http://www.autonomedia.org
Geoff Cox
Dr Geoff Cox is an occasional artist and projects organiser as well
as currently lecturer at the University of Plymouth, UK, and Transart
Institute (Donau University, Krems, Austria). He has a research
interest in software culture expressed in various critical writings and
projects, such as the co-curated touring exhibition
'Generator' (2002/03) and his PhD thesis
'Antithesis: The Dialectics of Software Art' (2006). He co-edited
'Economising Culture' and 'Engineering Culture' as part of the DATA
browser series (Autonomedia 2004 & 05). He is also a trustee of Kahve-
Society, on the council of management of Spacex gallery, and a
trustee of the UK Museum of Ordure.
http://www.anti-thesis.net/
Joasia Krysa
Joasia Krysa is an independent curator and lecturer in Art and Technology at
the University of Plymouth (UK), where she is also a founding member of Art
and Social Technologies Research, part of the AZTEC (Art Science Technology)
Consortium. Amongst many curatorial and advisory appointments she is the
founder of the KURATOR project, Member of the Council of Management for WRO Art
Center Foundation (Poland), co-manages the Curatorial Network (with Arts
Council England, UK) and frequently serves on international jury panels
including most recently ARCO/BEEP Media Art Awards 2007, Madrid and SHARE
Festival Prize 2007, Turin. As part of the DATA browser series, she co-edited
'Economising Culture' (2004), 'Engineering Culture' (2005), and edited 'Curating Immateriality'
(2006).
http://www.kurator.org
Anya Lewin
Dr Anya Lewin is an artist and a Lecturer in Fine Art at the
University of Plymouth, UK. Her current projects include 'Art Tourist
Commissions' and 'Full Lessons about Less Meaning' made during a
residency at InterSpace in Sofia, Bulgaria as well as 'Oral History:
A Story of Cinema, Dentistry and Exile' with Picture This, Bristol.
She co-edited 'Economising Culture' as part of the DATA browser
series (Autonomedia 2004).
http://www.yesandnu.com/anyalewin
Malcolm Miles
Dr. Malcolm Miles is Profesor of Cultural Theory at the University of
Plymouth, UK, where he convenes the Critical Spaces Research Centre
and co-ordinates the research methods programme for doctoral students
in the Faculty of Arts. He is author of 'Cities & Cultures' (2007),
'Urban Avant-Gardes' (2004) and 'Art Space & the City' (1997), co-
author of 'Consuming Cities' (2004, with Steven Miles), and co-editor
of the 'City Cultures Reader' (2nd edition 2003, with Tim Hall and
Iain Borden). His next authored book will be 'Urban Utopias' (2008).
He is co-Editor for the Routledge series, 'Critical Introductions to
Urbanism', with John Rennie Short (University of Maryland). He has
contributed to Space & Culture, Urban Studies, and Parallax, among
other journals. His current research is in a field triangulated by
contemporary art, critical theory, and aspects of the social sciences
dealing with social transformation.
http://www.malcolmmiles.org.uk
Hugo de Rijke
Hugo de Rijke is a Lecturer in Media Industries at the School of
Computing, Communications and Electronics; and also Lecturer in Law
at the School of Sociology, Politics and Law, at the University of
Plymouth, UK. He holds a BA in Law and Literature from the University
of Keele, and an MA in English and American Cultural Studies from the
University of Exeter. He has worked as a publisher for several legal
publishing houses and commissioned numerous publications, whilst
dealing with media law issues. He is also a qualified barrister and
practised for a number of years, conducting jury trials and other
civil matters. His current research interests include digital art
copyright and obscenity; and the law relating to anti-corporate/
subversive Internet activity.
