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Contributors Lessley Anderson (contributing writer) is a desert goddess, and writes for the Industry Standard.
<<< Tiffany Lee Brown (Editrina) is published in various books & in magazines like Utne Reader, Bust, Bookforum, Wired, and the Mercury. She’s also a vocalist & multi-instrumentalist, playing improv with Kings on Straw Mats and la-la-la pop + dark arty stuff with Brain Warmer . KoSM will be playing on the waterfront at the Portland Rose Festival, so come see us! Photo by David Rolin *Mandy Catalano (contributing photographer, illustrator) is a long-standing member of the dUdÜ art collective. When asked for further comment, Ms.Catalano said only "We hate the Fluxus!" –TLB
Bill Cummings teaches Interdisciplinary Social Science at the University of South Florida. An ethnographic historian by temperament, his research interests include the sociology of the body, transformations in cultural perceptions and usages of the body, and the nature of historical consciousness in early modern Indonesia. He is currently working on tattooing and body modification as forms of historical expression in modern American culture and trying desperately not to be as boring as his bio sounds. *Mark Dery is a cultural critic whose writings have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Rolling Stone, Red Herring, Feed, Suck, Salon, Wired, Bookforum, the Village Voice, and Lingua Franca. He edited Flame Wars, a seminal anthology of cybercrit, and wrote Escape Velocity: Cyberculture at the End of the Century. His latest book is The Pyrotechnic Insanitarium:American Culture on the Brink Rick Doble (contributing artist) has been a professional photographer and photography teacher for 30 years, and received his Masters in Communications from UNC-Chapel Hill, NC in 1975. His site includes over 600 digital images and eight articles about art in the 21st century.
*Todd Grimson (contributing writer and illustrator) is the award-winning author of Brand New Cherry Flavor, Stainless, and Within Normal Limits. He lives in Portland, Oregon and will soon present the world with a new novel. Helena G. Harvilicz (contributing writer) is a freelance writer living in Brooklyn. By her own account, Ms.H is "naturally surly," but we think she is just cute. *Joseph Hobaica (contributing writer), a.k.a. Mr.X, is known for his book Joey "X": Man of Mystery, authored after his capture by the Romanian government's clandestine poets agency in 1992. Hobaica makes a mean pasta sauce when not practicing complicated toe-shufflings with his friends in Riverdance.
Tom Igoe (contributing designer) 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. Formerly a teacher at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program, he spends his time making talking fountains, .38 caliber Smith & Wesson computer mice, and VR headgear out of gas masks.
*Joel Jennings is a music critic and actor in Dublin, Ireland.. *B.Jone (contributing writer) is the proprietor of an unnamed record shop in an unnamed city in an unnamed country. He is rumoured to be the sekrit alter-identity of DJ kittenhed.
Barry Kavanagh (contributing writer) is the author of the "surreal... melancholic" 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 the columnist behind the "Insider" in New York’s theatre paper, Show Business. He lurks around Brooklyn in fab ties and groovy glasses. –TLB Brenda Laurel (contributing writer) is a designer, researcher and writer. She is editor of The Art of Human-Computer Interface Design, and author of Computers as Theatre and a collection of essays entitled Severed Heads. She holds an M.F.A. and Ph.D. in theatre from the Ohio State University and was a founding member of the research staff of Interval Research Corporation. She was also one of the founders and VP/Design of Purple Moon, which was acquired by Mattel in 1999. Jon Lebkowsky (contributing writer) is currently writingVirtual Bonfire for MIT Press, and has written articles about culture and technology for The Austin Chronicle and other publications. He co-hosts the WELL’s Mirrorshades conference with Bruce Sterling and Linda Castellani, and is a co-host of Inkwell. He was co-founder of FringeWare, Inc., an editor for the Millennium Whole Earth Catalog. *Scott D. Lewis (contributing writer) covers music & cultural matters for The Oregonian and other upstanding publications. He’s a freelance writer based in Portland, Oregon and the former Music Editor for Anodyne magazine. Lulu (contributing artist) recently achieved sentience. magdalen (contributing writer) is one of many transparent pseudonyms used for vague and psychologically unsound reasons by some girl who writes. Chad McEvoy (contributing writer) is a once and future zoologist currently working in the software industry between travel adventures.
Richard Meltzer (contributing writer) is the great unsung, or undersung, or undersomething, man of North American letters and lit. Author of a dozen books, including The Aesthetics of Rock, Gulcher, 17 Insects Can Die in Your Heart, L.A. Is the Capital of Kansas, The Night (Alone), Tropic of Nipples, and the recently published A Whore Just Like the Rest: The Music Writings of Richard Meltzer, he has also done time as a visual artist, filmmaker, garbage picker, boxing authority, rock lyricist, punk rock singer and DJ. He currently lives in Portland, where he is guest vocalist for the band Smegma. 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. Look for his explorations into post-paranoia culture in an upcoming issue of Signum. 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. Lance Olsen (contributing writer) 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. He’s launched a new website at www.cafezeitgeist.com.
*Pighed (contributing designer), a.k.a. Mark Meadows, is this month’s featured Freezone artist/writer. Piggie has done neat things at Xerox PARC, Construct, the Interactive Media Festival, and Atomic Tangerine. Plz don’t tell him I called him Piggie in public. –TLB *VX Potenza (Kahuna Grande) is the publisher of Signum and the founder of Signum Press. After inventing Post-Its, Vince donned a sparkling white lab coat and turned his attention to pharmaceuticals. No one has heard from him since. Chris Reddig (contributing photographer) is an Oakland-based photographer, videographer, and noiseographer. *Chaleampon "Oates" Ritthichai (Webmaestro, layout) likes long walks at sunset, Geminis, rumpus rooms, and free jazz. –T. *Jennifer Robin (contributing writer) is the author of Bouzi and hosts the Portland radio show NIGHT OF THE LIVING TONGUE: Everything that can be done with words...and the occasional bonus collage of sound effects and music! on KBOO 90.7 FM, Thursdays, 11PM-Midnight. Jodie Rogers (contributing writer) rocks the house. Her interview with Placebo will appear in the next issue of Signum.
Rudy Rucker, Jr. (donated services) is a cutie-pie extraordinaire. Instead of telling us, "Hey, we could use a search function here" he made us one! Were I still publishing the 'zine Hot Geeks!, I think he'd rate his own Trading Card.-TLB R.U.Sirius (contributing writer) is the Revolutionary Party chairman and candidate for President of the United States (and we got another BUSH instead!! Gawd.). A founding editor of Mondo 2000, author of numerous tomes, and general all-around cultural commentator, his latest work is the little red book: The Revolution®: Quotations from Revolution Party Chairman R.U.Sirius.–TLB *Marshall Serna (contributing photographer) shot Godspeed You Black Emperor! for this issue. He says that creating art is about "creating spaces… As a musician, as well as Sumerland's producer/engineer and art director, I have walked into literal worlds which were once only imaginary." Holly Tedford (contributing writer) was born and raised in the great state of Texas, at just about the point where the Bible Belt crosses Tornado Alley and now makes her home in Northern California. She spends most of her time as a halfway respectable nonprofit consultant, with occasional gigs as a less respectable singer with various alt-country and rock bands.
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 Pat, and more. Scott Westerfeld (contributing writer) is a novelist and composer. He is the author of Polymorph, Fine Prey, and Evolution’s Darling 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.
*Wiley Wiggins (contributing writer) wrote about his experiences acting in, and even animating, the film Waking Life this issue. Wiley is a Los Angeles based actor known for films such as Dazed & Confused. His art & writing have appeared in various publications and online during the last decade; he also published the ‘zine Happy? and was an editor for the Fringe Ware Review. Besides, he’s an excellent roadtrip companion. –TLB 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 Mim ran away to the isle of Portlandia, where she currently writes and lives.
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gregoryp™ (contributing
writer) gregoryp™’s has written for NetSlaves, Signum,
and contributed to How To Mutate and Take Over the World,
CoffeeHouse, Sneakers: A Global Footwear Experiment, and other
weird anthologies. He also edits "Random Cool Bits."
Look for his alter-ego, Gregory Pleshaw, in aboveground publications.
Ian
Grey >>> (contributing
writer), an American national, writes about culture, film and
music. Author of Sex, Stupidity, & Greed: Inside the American
Movie Industry, 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.
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Andrew Hultkrans (Contributing Editor) is editor
of Bookforum. Previously, he toiled as managing editor for Mondo
2000, and as a freelance writer for six ass-reddening 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. Photo by
the unscrupuless Bart Nagel.
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Richard Kadrey(contributing writer) wrote the novels
Metrophage and Kamikaze l’Amour, and the non-fiction
Covert Culture Sourcebook series. He recently wrote the
four-comic series Accelerate for Vertigo, and will release
the graphically enhanced novella Angel Scene in 2001. Photo
by Lyn Gaza, modified by Gomi Boy. 
Chris
Karoli >>>
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Mark Pesce (contributing writer) Mark Pesce is a pioneer
of 3D on the web, and is the author of several books, including
Browsing and Building Cyberspace. He’s written for
periodicals such as Wired, Feed, and Salon, and Ballantine recently
published his latest book, The Playful World: Interactive Toys
and the Future of the Imagination. Pesce was appointed Chair
of the Interactive Media Program at the University of Southern
California’s School of Cinema-Television. Pesce’s serial
fiction will soon debut on Signum. 
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Douglas Rushkoff (contributing writer) Douglas Rushkoff
is the author of seven books on new media and popular culture,
including Cyberia, Media Virus, Playing the Future, Coercion,
and the novel Ecstasy Club. His radio commentaries
air on NPR’s "All Things Considered," and his monthly
column on cyberculture is distributed through the New York Times
Syndicate. Rushkoff is professor of media culture at New York
University, an Advisor to the United Nations Commission on World
Culture, on the Board of Directors of the Media Ecology Association,
and a founding member of Technorealism. He has written for Time,
The Guardian, Esquire, Paper, and GQ. Photo by Roberto Todaro.
Brad
Wieners >>>(contributing writer) is a Senior
Editor at Outside magazine and has a deep husky voice that’ll
drive you wild. Oooh! Mrrow! —TLB