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John Cayley makes digital language art, particularly in the domain of poetry and

poetics. Most recently his work engages ambient poetics in programmable media, and

writing in and for immersive 3D virtual reality systems, with parallel theoretical

research concerning the role of code in writing, and the (intrinsic) temporal propertiesof textuality. Recent and ongoing projects include _How It Is in Common Tongues_,a part of the _The Readers Project_ with Daniel C. Howe (thereadersproject.org),

_imposition_ with Giles Perring, _riverIsland_, and _what we will_ ... Links to hisinternationally recognized writing in networked and programmable media are at

programmatology.shadoof.net. Cayley has practiced as a poet, translator, publisher,

and bookdealer, and all these activities have often intersected with his training in

Chinese culture and language. His last printed book of poems, adaptations and

translations was Ink Bamboo (London: Agenda & Belew, 1996). Cayley was the

winner of the Electronic Literature Organization's Award for Poetry 2001. He has

taught at a number of universities in the United Kingdom, and was an Honorary

Research Associate in the Department of English, Royal Holloway College,University of London. In the United States, he has taught or directed research at the

University of California San Diego, and is currently Professor of Literary Arts at

Brown University. Recently Cayley has become obsessed, agonistically, by Writing to

be Found with=against language-driven network services.

Robin Curtis is Professor of The Theory and Practice of Audio-visual Media at

Heinrich-Heine-University, Dsseldorf. Curtis published work includes books and

articles on medial memory, emotionality of the moving image and the filmic avant-

garde. Filmmaker (Nachlass, 1992), Curator (e.g. Special Programme Out of Time

Oberhausen 2001, Werkleitz Biennale, 2002, Goethe Institute Tour Geschlecht-Konfliktbewltigung Israel/Palestine 2003) and Film and Media Scholar. Feodor-

Lynen Fellow, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation 2008-2011 at SUNY Buffalo,

NY, USA. Adjunct Professor, New York University, Global Academic Center in

Berlin, 2009-2012. Research Fellow, Freie Universitt Berlin, Collaborative Research

Centre Cultures of Performativity 2002-2010, Research Fellow, Media StudiesDepartment, University of Film and Television, Potsdam-Babelsberg 1996-2002. On

the editorial board of the internet journalNachdemfilm.de and of the paper journal

Pop. Kultur und Kritik(Transcript Verlag). Author ofConscientious Viscerality: The

Autobiographical Stance in German Film and Video; co-editor,Einfhlung Zu

Geschichte und Gegenwart eines sthetischen Konzepts. [FromEinfhlungto

Empathy: The History and Contemporary Career of an Aesthetic Concept;Synsthesie-Effekte: zur Intermodalitt der isthetischen Wahrnehmung.

[Synaesthetic Effects: The Intermodality of Aesthetic Experience]; Special Issue

"Immersion", montage/av and numerous journal special issues.

Angela Dalle Vacche is Professor of Film Studies at the Georgia Institute of

Technology. Her recent edited anthology,Film, Art, New Media: Museum Without

Walls (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), explores emerging aesthetic encounters in the

museum between film and both older and newer media forms. She is the author of

The Body in the Mirror: Shapes of History in Italian Cinema (Princeton Univeristy

Press, 1992); Cinema and Painting: How Art is Used in Film (University of Texas

Press, 1996);Diva: Defiance and Passion in Early Italian Cinema (University of

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Texas Press, 2008). She has edited The Visual Turn: Classical Film Theory and Art

History (Rutgers University Press, 2003); and co-edited, with Brian Price, Color: TheFilm Reader (Routledge, 2006). She is currently working on a book aboutAndr

Bazin: Art, Film, Science.

Jhave is a digital-poet who teaches in the School of Creative Media at the CityUniversity of Hong Kong. His work focuses on combinatorial poetics, and multimedia

poetry. He exhibits and performs kinetic multimedia spoken-screen lecture-poemsinternationally. Since 1999, he has published language-art online (not paper) at

www.glia.ca.