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Monica
Bock is Assistant Professor in the Department of Art & Art History
at the University of Connecticut, Storrs. Prior to this appointment
Monica was a Chicago-based artist holding Adjunct Faculty positions
at the Art Institute of Chicago and Chicago's Columbia College. She
received her BFA and MFA in sculpture from the School of the Art Institute
of Chicago, and her BA in Art and Art History from Oberlin College.
Monica has exhibited nationally and in Japan where she spent three years
on fellowship from the Oberlin Shansi Memorial Association. The artist
wishes to gratefully acknowledge the financial support of the University
of Connecticut Research Foundation, the s contribution of artistic collaborators,
as well as the technical, research, and student assistants, and the
tireless presence of her husband, James J. Hughes, in making her artwork
possible.
Zofia Burr received her MFA and her Ph.D. from Cornell University.
Her main area of interest is modern American poetry, especially women's
poetry and African-American poetry. She is the author of Poetry and
Its Audiences: Dickinson, Miles, Brooks, Lorde, Angelou (University
of Illinois Press, forthcoming), and "In the Name of Audre Lorde: The
Location of Poetry in the United States," in Articulating the Global
and the Local: Globalization and Cultural Studies, Ann Cvetkovich
and Douglas Kellner, eds. (Westview Press, 1997). She is also the editor
of Set in Motion: Essays, Interviews, and Dialogues, by A.R. Ammons
(Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996). Her poetry has appeared
in Banyan, Blue Unicorn, and Delmar.
F.L.
Carr is a graduate student in the Cultural Studies Program at George
Mason University. She is the technical assistant for the ://english
matters collective. She is writing her dissertation on nineteenth-century
dime novels for women and their role in gender, class, and race formations
at the turn-of-the-century.
Devon
Hodges is
Professor of English at George Mason and the managing editor of English
Matters. Her latest book, Telling Incest (written with Janice
Doane), will be published in the fall by The University of Michigan
Press.
Kerrie
Bellisario Mileski
is the Executive Director and Curator for ArtWorks! at Dover Street,
a nonprofit contemporary art center in New Bedford, MA. In addition
to "Maternal Exposure", Kerrie has curated many exhibitions for ArtWorks!
including "Calligraphic Fences: New Work by James Lawton", "Intersections",
"The Document and the Drama: Two Sides to Mediated Violence" in the
Gallery for Traditional & New Media, and "Material Matters", "Contemporary
American Craft Series: Part One, Textiles" and others in the Sarah Louise
Cousins Gallery for High Craft. Kerrie is a founding member of New Bedford's
gallery night program, AHAI and she is an active participant in several
community projects.
Kirby
Malone is a writer, director and multimedia designer. He works in
the Division of Art and Visual Technologies at George Mason University's
Institute of the Arts, where he serves as Gallery Director, Program
Manager and Adjunct Assistant Professor. His work has been featured
at the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Next Wave Festival, Banff Centre-School
of Fine Arts, Minnesota Opera's Opera Tomorrow Festival, Arena Stage,
Baltimore Theater Project, Seattle Repertory Theater and on National
Public Radio's All Things Considered.
Mel
Nichols is a poet and digital artist whose collaborative projects
include poetry installations and web-based hypermedia works, currently
the in-progress hypermedia poem/memoir, Weepers, with poet Lee
Riley Hammer and dancers Renée Brozic and Turtle Wegrzyn. "The
Silent Tongue," a collaboration with visual artist Doug Clevenger,
runs May 12 through June 15, 2001 at the Jettsett Gallery in Chicago.
Recent poems have appeared in Frisk, Gargoyle, So To
Speak, and Ixnay. She teaches at George Mason University.
Rod Smith
is the author of In Memory of My Theories (O Books), Protective
Immediacy (Roof), &, with Lisa Jarnot and Bill Luoma, New Mannerist
Tricycle (Beautiful Swimmer). "The Good House," a long
poem, is forthcoming from Spectacular Books. Smith edits Aerial
magazine, publishes Edge Books, & manages Bridge Street Books in Washington,
DC.
Dean
Taciuch is a Visiting Assistant Professor in English at George Mason
University. He is currently working with Technology Across the Curriculum
and other electronic resources for teaching. His poems have been published
in journals such as 14 Hills, online at the Wr-Eye-Tings scratchpad,
and in a chapbook (certainty series) from Burning Press. Visit Dean's
course website.
Steven
Weinberger is a member of English department at George Mason University
in Linguistics and of the New Media Group in English. In reference to
the new Media Group project of exploring pedagogy on the web, he uses
technology in many ways in his teaching. He uses a computer to show
speech spectrograms to the students. They also discuss speech wave forms
and slice speech up with a digitizer to demonstrate that the phonetic
alphabet is somewhat mythical. They also use the speech
accent archive to demonstrate various English accents, speaker
generalizations, and foreign accent and age. He also assigns students
to find a subject, record him/her according to a set protocol, digitize
the sample and transcribe it. The students also study small phonetics
tutorials on various university Macintosh machines with the software
on them.
Gail Scott White is a Visiting Associate Professor Art & Visual
Technology at George Mason University. She has an MFA from the School
of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. She teaches 3-D computer modeling
and animation at George Mason University. Her multimedia installations
cross the gaps between bits and atoms, incorporating elements from virtual
space with the structured world. Her work has been shown in New York
at the AIR Gallery, the Alternative Museum, and Gallery 128. She is
a 1999 Virginia Artists' Fellowship recipient.
Malone and White collaborated on design for the Theater of the First
Amendment's production of Doctor Faustus, Smallbeer Theater's
Shamanism in New Jersey, and Split: Hive Mind, an outdoor
installation featuring six-story projections on George Mason University's
Center for the Arts Concert Hall.
Special thanks to the following organizations for their generous
support:
Center
for History and New Media
George
Mason University Writing Center
The College of Arts and Sciences
at George Mason University
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