Notes on Contributors

Keith Broadfoot is lecturer in art history and theory at the University of Sydney, Australia. His most recent publications include articles in Oxford Art Journal (2002) and Word & Image (2001).

Rex Butler is senior lecturer in the Department of English, Media Studies, and Art History at the University of Queensland, Australia. He has just published A Secret History of Australian Art (2002).

Patrick Crogan is lecturer in film and media studies in the Department of Writing, Journalism, and Social Inquiry at the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia. Recent publications include "Things Analog and Digital" in Film and Philosophy (special issue, 2001); and "The Tendency, the Accident, and the Untimely: Paul Virilio's Engagement with the Future," in John Armitage, ed., Paul Virilio: From Modernism to Hypermodernism and Beyond (2000).

Wolfgang Ernst currently serves as visiting professor of the history and theory of artificial worlds at the Bauhaus-University Weimar, Germany. His most recent books are Das Rumorea der Archive: Ordnung aus Unordnung (2002) and M.edium F.oucault: Weimarer Vorlesungen über Archive, Archäologie, Monumente und Medien (2000). Together with Georg Trogemann and Alexander Nitussov, he edited Computing in Russia: The History of Computer Devices and Information Technology Revealed (2001).

Gary Hall is coeditor of the online journal Culture Machine and senior lecturer in media and cultural studies at Middlesex University, England. He is the author of Culture in Bits (2002). He is the coeditor of the Authorizing Culture edition of the journal Angelaki, and of Technologies, a new series of books in cultural studies, critical and cultural theory, and continental philosophy.

Rosemary Hawker lectures on art theory at Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, Australia. She is currently completing her doctorate, "Obscured Realism: Gerhard Richter, Photography, and the Paradoxes of Representation." Her recent publications include Everything and Nothing: Chris Langlois' Landscapes (2001).

Peter Krapp teaches at Bard College. His most recent publications include chapters in Deconstruction Reading Politics, edited by Martin McQuillan (2002) and Sensual Reading: New Approaches to Reading in Its Relations to the Senses, edited by Ian MacLachlan and Michael Syrotinski (2001). He is the editor of Hydra (theories of literature and media, www.hydra.umn.edu).

Catherine Liu is associate professor of cultural studies and comparative literature at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of Copying Machines: Taking Notes for the Automaton (2000) and a chapter in The Cambridge Companion to Lacan, edited by Jean-Michel Rabaté (2002). In 2002–2003, she is visiting associate professor at Bard College.

John Macarthur is senior lecturer in the Department of Architecture, School of Geography, Planning, and Architecture, at the University of Queensland, Australia. He is the editor of Imaginary Materials: A Seminar with Michael Carter (2000) and recently published an essay in Assemblage: A Critical Journal of Architecture and Design Culture.

Andrew McNamara is lecturer of art history and theory in Creative Industries faculty at Queensland University of Technology, Australia. He has published most recently in Media International Australia–Culture & Policy (2002) and contributed a chapter to Religion and Media (2001), edited by Hent de Vries and Samuel Weber.

Toni Ross is lecturer in the School of Art History and Theory, College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Australia, an editor of Refracting Vision: Essays on the Writings of Michael Fried, with J. Beaulieu and M. Roberts (2000), author of "Paradoxes of Authorship and Reception in Michael Fried's Art History," in the same volume, and editor of a recent issue, "Affect and Sensation," of the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art (2002).

Georg Stanitzek is professor of German and general and comparative literary studies at the University of Siegen, Germany. He recently edited Schnittstelle: Medien und Kulturwissenschaften, with Wilhelm Voßkamp (2001) and Transkribieren: Medien/Lektüre, with Ludwig Jäger (2002).

Georg Christoph Tholen is chair of Media Studies at the University of Basel, Switzerland. He is the editor of HyperKult: Geschichte, Theorie und Kontext digitaler Medien, with W. Coy and M. Warnke (1997) and Konfigurationen: Zwischen Kunst und Medien, with S. Schade (1999).

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