Contributors
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Wendy Hui Kyong Chun is associate professor of modern culture and media at Brown University. She has studied both systems design engineering and English literature, which she combines and mutates in her current work on digital media. She is author of Control and Freedom: Power and Paranoia in the Age of Fiber Optics (2006), co-editor (with Thomas Keenan) of New Media, Old Media: A History and Theory Reader (2006), and co-editor (with Lynne Joyrich) of "Race and/as Technology; or, How to Do Things to Race," a special issue of Camera Obscura (2009). She has been a visiting associate professor in the History of Science department at Harvard, a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and a Wriston Fellow at Brown. She is currently finishing a monograph titled Programmed Visions (forthcoming, 2010) and working two new projects: a collaborative project/monograph titled Imagined Networks and the Mellon-funded Visual Studies Collaboratory.
Jane Desmond is professor of anthropology and of gender/women's studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she also directs the International Forum for U.S. Studies, a center for transnational studies of the United States. She holds a Ph.D. in American studies from Yale University, and has served on the faculties of Cornell University, Duke University, and the University of Iowa. She is the current president of the International American Studies Association. Her academic work focuses broadly on issues of embodiment and social identity, in the arenas of performance, visual culture, and tourism. Her books include Staging Tourism: [End Page 427] Bodies on Display from Waikiki to Sea World (1999) and her current animal studies book project, Displaying Death/Animating Life.
Henriette Langstrup has an M.A. in psychology and a Ph.D. in organization and is an assistant professor in the Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen. Her research interests are in the sociology of technology and innovation in the field of medicine.
Erin Manning holds a University Research Chair in Relational Art and Philosophy in the Faculty of Fine Arts at Concordia University (Montreal, Canada). She is also the director of the Sense Lab (www.senselab.ca), a laboratory that explores the intersections between art practice and philosophy through the matrix of the sensing body in movement. In her art practice, she works among painting, fabric, and sculpture (http://www.erinmovement.com). Her current project, titled Folds to Infinity, is an experimental fabric collection composed of cuts that connect in an infinity of ways, folding in to create clothing and folding out to create environmental architectures. The next phase of this project explores the resonance between electromagnetic fields and movement through the activation of the existent magnets in Folds to Infinity. Her writing addresses the senses, philosophy, and politics, articulating the relation among experience, thought, and politics in a transdisciplinary framework that moves among dance and new technology, the political and micropolitics of sensation, performance art, and the current convergence of cinema, animation, and new media. Her publications include Relationscapes: Movement, Art, Philosophy (2009), Politics of Touch: Sense, Movement, Sovereignty (2007), and Ephemeral Territories: Representing Nation, Home and Identity in Canada (2003).
Naomi Rokotnitz teaches a range of courses at Bar-Ilan University in Israel that span nineteenth- to twenty-firstcentury literature. Her research and publications offer cognitive readings of both drama and narrative fiction, exploring the intersections between science and art, and suggesting how recent discoveries, particularly in the neurosciences, supplement, substantiate, and augment some of the intuitions and insights offered by creative writers and performers. Her work also explores how the study of literature can be a productive catalyst and companion for scientific investigation. She is currently working on a book titled Trusting Plays: Reclaiming Trust in Embodied Receptiveness through Dramatic Performance.
Julie Sommerlund has an M.A. in modern culture and cultural dissemination and a Ph.D. in organization and is an associate professor at the Danish Design School. Her research interests are in the sociology of art and aesthetics. [End Page 428]
