Her Work

A poet who writes about the lives of artists, I work at the conjunction of hypernarrative, magic realism, and information art.

Reviewed in Postmodern Culture, The New York Times Book Review, the Washington Post, Modern Fiction Studies (MFS), and The London Independent, among many others, my work has been exhibited/published internationally including Eastgate, The Iowa Review Web, Blue Moon Review, Sao Paulo Biennial, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Institute for Contemporary Art New Orleans, San Antonio Art Institute, P.P.O.W., St. Martin's Press, E.P. Dutton, SITE, The Los Angeles Institute for Contemporary Art, Heller Gallery at the University of California at Berkeley, the National Library of Madrid, Istanbul Contemporary Art Museum, The Houston Center for Photography, the Cleveland Institute of Art, Heresies, Seal Press, Franklin Furnace, Visual Studies Workshop, San Francisco Art Institute, Springer-Verlag, Tanam Press, Tisch School of the Arts, MIT Press, Target Video, FLEFF, San Francisco Center for the Book, the Richmond Art Center, and the National Endowment for the Arts website.

As an arts journalist and arts advocate, I have worked most notably as Editor of NYFA Current (formerly Arts Wire Current) an Internet-based National journal on social, economic, philosophical, and political issues affecting the arts and culture, sponsored by The New York Foundation for the Arts. I am currently the director of Art California, a web portal to the art and artists of California.

A pioneer on the Internet and in electronic literature, I wrote and programmed Uncle Roger, (Art Com, 1986) one of the first hyperfictions and in the ensuing years created a series of innovative literary works that run on computer platforms and were published by Eastgate and on the Internet. In 1993, I was invited to Xerox PARC where I worked in CSL (Computer Science Laboratory) as the first artist in their artist-in-residence program. In 1994, I created one of the first arts websites, Making Art Online, originally commissioned in collaboration with the ANIMA site in Vancouver (CSIR/Western Front) and currently hosted on the website of the Walker Art Center.

I have also been instrumental in making the arts an integral part of the Internet. I founded the Arts Conference on the WELL, was the initial consultant for the Internet Yellow Pages, was a founding editor of the seminal Leonardo Electronic News, (which became Leonardo Electronic Almanac) introduced art students to the Internet in a series of summer workshops in the early 90's, was an initial consultant for Open Studio, and taught web design at the San Francisco Art Institute as a visiting faculty member. For over ten years I worked with Arts Wire and the New York Foundation for the Arts to bring artists, arts organizations, arts news, and art information onto the Internet. In 2003, I edited an MIT Press book on women who work in new media.

My work looks at society in multiple ways -- ranging from the bawdy feminist take on office politics in 500 3X5 Cards and Other Stories to the poetic sorrow expressed in Ask for Sanctuary. For all societies -- from ancient Greek to contemporary times -- the freedom to make art in such diverse ways is of primary importance in the creation of vibrant and lasting cultures.

Ideally, print literature and e-literature; sequential literature and hyperfiction; painting and new media; are parallel art forms where writers in each medium understand each other's vision and, as between poetry and fiction, sometimes move with ease between the mediums.


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