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Jury Victor Acevedo has shown his work in over 77 exhibitions worldwide , including Podgallery@Spectra Digital NYC 1999 and 2000, SIGGRAPH 98, the New York Digital Salon 1994 and 1996, and ISEA 1993. In 1998 he was invited to show his work at the M.C. Escher Centennial Congress in Rome. Some examples of his Escher -influenced work appear in Leonardo 33, No. 1, as well as at http://mitpress.mit.edu/e-journals/Leonardo/gallery/index. html. He lectures on digital fine art at the School of Visual Arts. Erik Davis is a San Franciso-based writer and culture critic. His book TechGnosis: Myth, Magic, and Mysticism in the Age of Information was published by Harmony Books in 1998. He is currently a contributing writer for Wired and writes “The Posthuman Condition ” column for the online magazine Feed. He has also contributed articles and essays to Artbyte, Spin, Mediamatic, Lingua Franca, Gnosis, 21C, and The Village Voice. Some of his work can be accessed at http://www.levity.com/figment. He can be reached at figment@sirius.com. Perry Hoberman is an installation artist working with a variety of technologies. His installation Timetable was awarded the Grand Prix at the ICC Biennale ’99 in Tokyo, and Systems Maintenance won a 1999 Prix Ars Electronica Award of Distinction. Unexpected Obstacles, a retrospective survey of his work, was exhibited in the summer of 1998 at the ZKM Mediamuseum in Karlsruhe, Germany , and before that at Gallery Otso in Espoo, Finland. He is represented by Postmasters Gallery in New York and currently teaches at the School of Visual Arts. Matt Isaac is a media arts programmer and cultural producer living in New York City. He is the organizer of the New York Animation Festival and cofounder and coorganizer of Outer Limits, an international series of independent film and video. He was film curator at Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center and education director at CEPA Gallery (both in Buffalo), and has coordinated projects and exhibitions at Dance Theater Workshop and Artists Space. He earned a BA in media studies and photography from the State University of New York at Buffalo and an MA in media and cultural studies from the New School for Social Research. Isaac Victor Kerlow is a pioneer in the use of computer graphics technology in visual projects. He is also the author of several books, including the second edition of The Art of 3D Computer Animation and Imaging, published in 2000 by John Wiley & Sons. He is currently director of digital production and talent at The Walt Disney Company. Antoinette LaFarge (www.forger.com) is assistant professor of digital media in the studio art department at the University of California, Irvine. She is founder and director of the Plaintext Players, an online improvisational troupe that has appeared at venues including the 1997 Venice Biennale and documenta X. The Plaintext Players’ most recent production, The Roman Forum, took place in Los Angeles in August 2000. Most recently she curated SHIFT-CTRL, a show on computers, games, and art at the Beall Center for Art and Technology, in October 2000. Blanca Mora is director of Bandaluz de Comunicación in Madrid. She was also producer of the scenic space El Palenque at Expo ’92 in Seville, and from 1986 to 1991 she headed the artistic organization Circulo de Bellas Artes de Madrid. She handled European promotion for the Sixth and Seventh Digital Salons. Eric Paulos is a Ph.D. graduate student in the electrical engineering and computer science department at the University of California , Berkeley. His interests revolve around robotics and Internet-based telepresence. He founded the Experimental Interaction Unit (www.eiu.org) to address these topics. His work has been exhibited at the InterCommunication Center (ICC) in Japan, Ars Electronica, SIGGRAPH, the Dutch Electronic Art Festival (DEAF), the Blasthaus Gallery, and other venues. Richard Smoley is a writer and editor specializing in culture and philosophy. He holds an AB magna cum laude in classics from Harvard University (1978) and an MA from the Honour School of Literae Humaniores at the University of Oxford (1985). His book Hidden Wisdom: A Guide to the Western Inner Traditions, coauthored with Jay Kinney, was published by...