Diana Taylor, university professor and professor of Performance Studies and Spanish, New
York University, provides a rich entry point into complex questions about digital media and
its implications for scholarly practice. Drawing on her experience with the Hemispheric
Institute of Performance and Politics, a multinational collaboration of artists and scholars
grounded in an on-line archive of performance work across the Americas, Taylor insists that
we need to imagine communities that are not only local or national and publics that are not …