Contributors

Tiffany Lee Brown (Editrix) lives in Portland, Oregon, where things are green and luscious. She writes for magazines like Wired, Bookforum, and Bust, and has contributed to books including The Bust Guide to the New Girl Order, the Covert Culture Sourcebook, and How to Mutate & Take Over the World. She also sings, sitting in lately with the Gone Orchestra, Land of the Blind, and Cuntronica. Find her at www.magdalen.com or www.corporatecollapse.com. Image from a photo by Pauline Yu.

Mandy Catalano (illustrator) is a long-standing member of the dUdü art collective.

gregoryp ^tm (contributing writer) is still being mysterious. Apparently he’s migrated to the East Coast, and his Real Name® is Gregory Pleshaw. We think that www.gregoryp.com just might have something to do with him.–TLB

Ian Grey (contributing writer), an American national, writes about culture, film and music. Author of Sex, Stupidity, & Greed: Inside the American Movie Industry, he wrote "Box of Nothing" for the Fabulous Film Theme Issue of SIGNUM. He is currently at work on a very long novel based upon two lines from an old, rather generic Depeche Mode song. He likes to think he is among the first the first to do this.

Helena G. Harvilicz (contributing writer) really wants people to like her, so it’s unfortunate that she has such as unappealing disposition. You might think it’s because she has been left behind so many times. Raves, japanimation, the Internet, gangsta rap. She definitely does not have her finger on the pulse. What is all this ... stuff? She’s undeniably envious but it's far worse: she's naturally surly.

Andrew Hultkrans (Contributing Editor) is editor of Bookforum. Previously, he toiled thanklessly as a freelance writer for six ass-reddening years. Back in the paleolithic age (before Mozilla walked the earth), he was managing editor and columnist for Mondo 2000. Over the years, his hemming and hawing about the media, film, music, literature, art and the occasional lunatic has appeared in Artforum, Bookforum, Wired, Salon, 21C, Filmmaker, Stim, and several books. He lives in New York. Photo by the unscrupuless Bart Nagel.

Tom Igoe (initial site layout) worked as a theatre electrician and occasional lighting designer, but left it all behind and moved to New York for a more glamorous career in new media. He now teaches courses in computational media and physical computing at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program, and spends the rest of his time making talking fountains, .38 caliber Smith & Wesson computer mice, and VR headgear out of gas masks. Details are at itp.nyu.edu/tigoe.

Amy Jarrell (contributing photographer) is a 20-year-old photographer and digital artist from Philadelphia who enjoys defacing plastic dolls with sharpies and using them as her models in her work (the dolls, not the sharpies). She scans everything from body parts to bathrobes, and is deathly afraid of radiation. As the founder of Unhappy Medium Productions & Unhappy Medium Design, she spends her days wondering if anyone is listening. Email her at mangogal@aol.com or visit her website at http://mangledoll.tripod.com

Richard Kadrey (Contributing Editor and Covert Culture columnist) is the Acting Director of the Foundation for a Better and Brighter Tomorrow in the United States of America. Previously, Mr.Kadrey designed bedroom slippers for Manolo Blahnik’s houseboys. One ought also to mention that he authored the novels Metrophage and Kamikaze l’Amour, and the Covert Culture Sourcebook series. Photo by Lyn Gaza, modified by Gomi Boy. —TLB

Barry Kavanagh (contributing writer) is the author of the "surreal... melancholic" unpublished novel What the Ostrich Sees in the Sand and is a conspicuous member of the musical group Dacianos ("a source of joy, bemusement and inspiration"), who actually play live, record and release stuff. He is currently trying to write a "Taoist novel". May he grow wings and fly away!

Peter Landau (contributing writer) is fairly new to moi and to SIGNUM. For this reason, it really does not behoove me to fake a bio on his behalf. However, I happen to know that he wears truly fabulous ties (and glasses, too). He’s the weekly columnist responsible for "Show Business Insider" and will undoubtedly send me some more info real quicklike once he reads this. –TLB

magdalen (contributing writer) is one of many transparent pseudonyms used for vague and psychologically unsound reasons by some girl who writes.

Chad McEvoy is a once and future zoologist currently working in the software industry between travel adventures. The research which provided the backdrop to this story was published in an article last year in Molecular Psychiatry, "(+) 3,4-Methylenedioxymethamphetamine ('Ecstasy') transiently increases striatal 5-HT 1B binding sites without altering 5-HT 1B mRNA in rat brain."

Cletus Nelson (contributing writer) is a regular contributor to Eye and Panik. His paranoid prose has appeared in Utne Reader, Now, Boulder Weekly, Spider, the Boston Phoenix, and other independent pubs.

Andi Olsen (contributing artist) is an artist whose assemblages and collages have appeared in galleries and journals across the country and abroad, most recently Berlin, San Diego, and London. Samples of her cyberart reside at http://www.uidaho.edu/~lolsen.

Lance Olsen (contributing artist) is author of more than a dozen books of and about Avant-Pop fiction, including the novels Tonguing the Zeitgeist and Time Famine, and Rebel Yell: A Short Guide to Writing Fiction. His digital avatar resides at Cafe Zeitgeist: http://www.uidaho.edu/~lolsen. NOTE: Andi & Lance’s collaborative efforts appear in their fab new book, Sewing Shut My Eyes (you may remember a piece by that name they contributed to SIGNUM). Go get yourself one now!!!–Ms.Tif

Pighed (contributing designer), a.k.a. Mark Meadows, has too many fancy awards and accolades to be in here with us. —TLB

VX Potenza (contributing writer and oh, so much more!) is the founder and publisher of SIGNUM. You’ve undoubtedly seen him on television, smiling on the red carpet at the Oscars, cavorting at the Playboy mansion, and accepting prestigious awards on behalf of the magazine.

Chris Reddig (contributing photographer) is an Oakland-based photographer, videographer, and noiseographer.

Chaleampon "Oates" Ritthichai (Webmaestro, layout) is the webmaster on nine sites. Then he works for a leftist foundation during the day, like, influencing public policy and stuff. He grew up in Bangkok, which is just terrifyingly cool & interesting of him, don’t you think? In his spare time, Oates plays the clarinet in subway stations on the "G" line. –me again

Jennifer Robin (contributing writer) is the author of Bouzi. She’s also a member of Third Pyramid, a Portland, Oregon collective dedicated to promoting experimental music. She hosts a radio show and live performance series with a spoken-word emphasis.

MJ Rose (alt.books columnist) is the author of Lip Service, the first self-published and Internet-marketed novel to be picked up by mainstream publishers and chosen by the Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Clubs to be a featured alternate selection. She is also the co author of The Secrets of Our Success– how to publish and market and promote on the web. Rose has just sold her second novel to Pocket Books. Visit her online at www.mjrose.com.

Dave Walsh (contributing writer) a.k.a. Daev, a.k.a. the Reverend Hellshaw, is an Owl Worrier, Snark Hunter, and Gentleman Cynic of the highest order. His excellent forays into the strange may be found at www.blather.net and in the Fortean Times, among other exotic locales. –TLB

Don Webb (contributing writer) is a native born Texan. He’s known for Texas based mysteries The Double and Essential Saltes, his 200 or so published SF short stories, having a sex manual dedicated to him, his occult books The Seven Faces of Darkness and Uncle Setnakt’s Essential Guide to the Left Hand Path, his appearance in the movie Plutonium Circus, his long boring story about being attacked by a razorblade-wielding psycho, his chili, his beautiful wives, his fear of heights, his interest in the Toho Godzilla film series, his shyness in crowds, his habit of bathing in Pine Sol, his hatred of avocados, his list-making, and his fondness for chicken and dumplings. See http://www.fringeware.com/dwebb/ for more.

Scott Westerfeld (contributing writer) is a novelist and composer. [His latest novel, Evolution’s Darling, is a must-have–Ed.] He is the author of Polymorph and Fine Prey, both published by Penguin/Roc. His electronic compositions for dance have been performed at Dance Theater Workshop, The Joyce Theater, P.S. 122, and Jacob’s Pillow. He was born in Texas and lives on New York’s Lower East Side.Visit http://members.aol.com/fineprey or email sdwestnyc@aol.com.

Miriam Zellnik (contributing writer) was born in a New York City taxicab. The driver was so touched by her birth that he knocked 5 bucks off the fare, much to her mother’s delight. She spent her earliest years travelling the globe with her parents, part of a troupe of fire-eaters who played before royalty on several occasions, but when Miriam reached the age of 6, her parents decided to retire from the circus life and settle down for good. Clever Mim ran away to the aisle of Portlandia, where she currently writes and lives.