Mark Dery, cultural critic, edited Flame Wars: The Discourse of Cyberculture (Duke University Press, 1995) and is the author of Escape Velocity: Cyberculture at the End of the Century (Grove Press, 1996). Grove Press also published his collection of essays, The Pyrotechnic Insanitarium: American Culture on the Brink in 1999. He is an occasional writer for The New York Times Magazine, Rolling Stone, The Village Voice Literary Supplement, Suck, and Feed, and lectures frequently in the U.S. and Europe on new media, fringe thought, and unpopular culture. Currently he teaches at New York University.

Lewis Kachur, Associate Professor of Art History at Kean University, New Jersey authored Displaying the Marvelous: Marcel Duchamp, Salvador Dali, and Surrealist Installations (MIT Press). He will present related slide lectures at the Miami Museum of Contemporary Art (May 18), and the Pollock-Krasner House, East Hampton (July 28). He also lectures at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Christiane Paul, Ph.D. from Dusseldorf University, wrote Unreal City: A Hypertextual Guide To T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land, and is Editor in Chief of Intelligent Agent: The Use of Interactive Media and Technology in Arts and Education. Her other work includes Reading/Writing Hyperfictions: The Psychodrama of Interactivity (LEONARDO, Vol. 28 No. 4, MIT Press) and Die Antizipation der amerikanischen Postmoderne im Romanwerk Herman Melville (Idstein: Schulz-Kirchner Verlag). From 1988 to 1991, Dr. Paul was Visiting Scholar at New York University, specializing in myth criticism and the use of myth in American literature. Currently she teaches a course about art and the Internet at the School of Visual Arts. In addition, she is Adjunct Curator of New Media at the Whitney Museum of American Art.

Sidra Stich, Ph.D. in art history, University of California, Berkeley, is an art historian and museum curator. She has taught and lectured widely, organized major exhibitions and written such acclaimed books as Yves Klein , Rosemarie Trockel, Made in USA: An Americanization in Modern Art, the '50s--'60s, and Anxious Visions: Surrealist Art. Currently the Director of art.SITES, publisher of art-related travel guides, and an avid traveler, she visits renowned and little-known places in major cities and remote settings researching each art.SITES handbook.

Joseph Nechvatal, Ph.D. in the philosophy of art and new technology at The Centre for Advanced Inquiry in the Interactive Arts (http://www.eyewithwings.net/nechvatal/ideals.htm), served as Parisian editor for RHIZOME INTERNET (http://www.rhizome.org ) from1996-2001. He now writes regularly for The THING1 (http://www.thing.net ), NY ARTS Magazine"(http://www.nyartsmagazine.com) and zingmagazine(http://www.zingmagazine.com/). He founded the Tellus Audio Art Project and also served as conference coordinator for the 1^st International CAiiA Research Conference entitled CONSCIOUSNESS REFRAMED: Art and Consciousness in the Post-Biological Era (1997), which looked at new developments in art, science, technology and consciousness. His computer-robotic assisted paintings and computer animations are shown regularly in galleries and museums throughout the world.

Chris Hables Gray, Ph.D, History of Consciousness Program, University of California at Santa Cruz, is a cyborgologist and an Associate Professor of Computer Science and Cultural Studies at the University of Great Falls in Montana. He authored Cyborg Citizen: Politics in the Posthuman Age (Routledge, 2002) and Postmodern War: The New Politics of Conflict (Routledge, 1997). In addition, he edited The Cyborg Handbook (Routledge, 1996) and Technohistory: Using the History of American Technology in Interdisciplinary Research (Krieger, 1996). He is an anarchist - feminist soccer dad - academic who gets drunk on labels and makes art only when compelled from within.

Christine de Lignieres is an artist working in New York City whose interests include semiotics, museum studies and post-structuralist theory. She received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to study the writings of Walter Benjamin.

Thyrza Nichols Goodeve has published widely on contemporary art and culture. She wrote How Like a Leaf: A Conversation with Donna Haraway (Routledge, 1999) and Ellen Gallagher (Anthony d’Offay, London). She is currently working on a book called The Cremaster Dialogues, focusing on the work of Matthew Barney, to be published by D.A.P. in 2003. She teaches undergraduate art history and MFA computer art at the School of Visual Arts, and is on the faculty of the Interactive Communications Program at New York University.

Andruid Kerne, composer and web-browser designer, developed the CollageMachine, an interactive agent of web recombination which deconstructs Web sites and represents them in collage form. He works on the Media Research laboratory team in the Department of Computer Science at New York University.

Aziz+Cucher: Anthony Aziz and Sammy Cucher have been collaborating since 1992. Their digital images and sculptural projects have been widely exhibited nationally and internationally. They received the 2002 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, the first time this award has been given to artists working with photography and digital media. Upcoming exhibitions of their work in New York include Skin at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum and OUT OF SITE at the New Museum of Contemporary Art. Passage, a new 3-D multimedia work will premiere at the Netherlands Architecture Institute in Rotterdam in July, 2002.

Pete Mauro, art historian; his work addresses intersections of visual representation, science, technology, race and class in American cultural history. His specializes in American Art and the post-Civil war era, focusing particularly on criminology and pseudo-science. Other interests include contemporary issues involving DNA, the genome, and biometrics surveillance.

Eva Sutton, artist and programmer living in NYC, explores the boundary between static images and interactive databases in which users change the visual state of the system without interrupting the "realistic" continuity of a "whole image." Paradise Now, an exhibition which explored artists’ responses to current issues in genetics featured her interactive print Hybrids. Eva previously worked as a software engineer primarily in biotechnology and large-scale data- base management, and as a senior network administrator at the School of Visual Arts. Her work has been featured in Aperture, Siggraph, the National Center of Photo in Paris, and the on-line sites Digital Imaging Forum (www.art.uh.edu/dif), www.genomicart.org and www.pbs.org. An Associate Professor at the Rhode Island School of Design, she has developed a digital media curriculum, and is designing a digital media graduate program. Her current focus at RISD is on using "off-the shelf" technology to build robots which function as aesthetic and performative systems.

Angela Glass, Ph.D. is an independent scholar who lives and works in New York City. She is currently working on a book exploring the influence of Salvador Dali’s paranoid imagery on today’s art and culture.

Frank Gillette holds fellowships from the Guggenheim, Rockefeller and D.A.R.E. Foundations, as well as two from the National Endowment for the Arts. Solo venues include Howard Wise Gallery, Leo Castelli Gallery, the Whitney, the Corcoran, Berkeley’s University Art Museum, the CAM (Houston), the Kitchen, Catherine Turner Gallery (London) and the American Academy in Rome, where he was Artist-in-Residence (’84 - ’85), His most recent show in New York was at Universal Concepts Unlimited in October of 2001. Permanent public collections include the Metropolitan Museum of Art, MoMA, the Whitney, the Corcoran, Chicago Art Institute and the Tate. He lives and works in NY.

Lynn A. Petrullo, molecular geneticist, has published her work on the fidelity of macromolecular processes in Biochemistry, Journal of Molecular Biology, Molecular and General Genetics, Journal of Bacteriology, and Mutation Research. Currently she is researching scientific imagery in science, art and popular culture, and its impact and responses in both historical and contemporary society. She presented The Church of DNA on a multidisciplinary panel, Material into Metaphor: Picturing DNA at the CAA Conference in New York, in 2000. Lynn teaches Art and Science Parallels at The College of New Rochelle.

Ben Neill, composer, musician and multi-media artist, created his own instrument, called "mutant trumpet." He employs his personal computer to create music whose rhythms are related to fractal structures.