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Contributors Lessley Anderson (contributing writer) is a writer based in the Bay Area.
<<< Tiffany Lee Brown (Editrix) has seen her prose published in the Utne Reader, Bookforum, Wired, Venus, Bust, and lotsa other books and magazines. Her band Brain Warmer releases their first CD on Corporate Collapse Records this winter. She also collaborates with Miss Murgatroid, The Gone Orchestra, Kings On Straw Mats... and of course, the annual Burl International Christmas Festival (1999 and 2001 editions). Miss Brown is presently employed as poster girl and Devil Bunny Fondler for the one & only El Rey Del Art . Photo by Maffew Hawn. 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!" Amy Chace (contributing photographer) is a visual artist living and working in New York City. She has had work published in Yellow Rat Bastard magazine and ARude magazine as well as numerous ezines. She has also had many solo exhibitions in New York City venues, the most recent of which is the International Center of Photography. Most of her work revolves around the themes of freedom, independence, safety, communication, and interaction.
James M. Crotty is an adult child of Catholic Republicans, and a former altar boy. He will be studying the King James Bible this summer at St. John's College Santa Fe. His web site is Monk.com. 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. Damon & Naomi (contributing writers) are rather famous indie musicians, and this year they’ve helped form Musicians For Peace, a loose coalition of artists who do not support the current American war. While not advocating a specific political platform, M4P agrees that "Violence only leads to further violence; war is not the answer." Find D&N’s musical activities on the Sup Pop site , or check out their cool experimental/Dada/etc. publishing house at www.ExactChange.com. —TLB Mark Dery (contributing writer) 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. Okra P. Dingle (contributing writer) has written amazing ’zines including Le Somnabuliste and Gutter Butter (which just completely kicked my ass). An admirable player of the singing saw, Mr.Dingle travels with his comrade performer/anarchist librarian, Dr.Henceforth Flummox, in the Autonomadic Bookmobile. He wrote about their tour with the Bindlestiff Family Cirkus for Signum’s Retrotainment issue. –TLB
Dymphna >>>is the patron saint of the insane. She was born in Ireland to army chief Damon, who attempted to marry her after her mother passed away. Her virtue intact, Dymphna fled Ireland with a priest and a court jester. Damon eventually found and murdered Dymphna and the priest at their hiding place in Gheel, Belgium. Kevin Fanning (contributing writer) lives in the midwest and has a website called whygodwhy.com. Someone once told him that he writes stories with edges and twisted wires and beautiful sadness. Someone else once told him that his stories were sad without logical tragedy, like watching an alien cry. Erik Goen is a photographer living in Dallas, Texas. His photographs have been shown in New York, Philadelphia, and Texas, and appeared in Hero and The Photo Review.
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. I know what it’s about, but I’m not gonna tell. He finally finished the damned thing, so hopefully we can all read it soon. –TLB Helena G. Harvilicz (contributing writer) is a freelance writer recently transplanted from Brooklyn to LA. By her own account, Ms.H is "naturally surly," but we think she is just cute. —yep, T. again. Eric Hausmann (contributing photographer) is a Portland-based videographer, multi-instrumentalist, and producer. He has played guitar, trumpet, cello, keyboards, drums, and exotic electronic instruments with bands like Dark Horse, and the Lions of Batucada. He currently plays with Brainwarmer, The Gone Orchestra, and Kings on Straw Mats. Eric founded the independent music label Spilling Audio label in 1986. Joseph "X" Hobaica (contributing writer), a.k.a. The Mayor of Williamsburg, is widely known for the twelve-volume encyclopaedia of modern music he edited in the mid-1970s, entitled Ukeleles: The Definitive History. When not on the road with Nada Surf, living the full-on rock ‘n’ roll lifestyle to an extreme (complete with roadie perks), Mr. X wears a lit-up cowboy hat and dances gleefully to... techno music. –tlb
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.
Syd Jesus (contributing writer & artist) is the founder and leader of the dUdÜ art collective. 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.
Chris Karoli >>> (contributing writer) lives in a hotel in Times Square, summers in Cape Cod, and has traveled extensively in Hong Kong, the Pampas, St.Petersburg, Madrid, and Bournemouth. He has never needed a day job. He attended an Ivy League school because his parents are rich and their friends wrote him letters of recommendation. He’s 24 and still doesn't care about anything, although he disperses nearly one million dollars to various charities each year. 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 (see www.dacianos.com). Peter Landau (contributing writer) was the columnist behind the "Insider" in New York’s theatre paper, Show Business. He’s recently relocated from Brooklyn to LA, trading Ground Zero air for smog. Pop quiz: who else on this Contributors’ Page just moved to LA? Could there be a connection? Send your wild speculations about this matter to editrix@signumpress.com for your chance to win!! —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 writing Virtual 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., and an editor for the Millennium Whole Earth Catalog. Scott D. Lewis (resident critic of the rawk) 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. And I think he owes me a beer. –guess who 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, 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. Terri Nelson (contributing writer) is a graduate student at Portland State University. Soon enough, she will have her teaching credential. She’s an excellent printmaker, sculptress, and writer. –TLB 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, as well as Rebel Yell: A Short Guide to Writing Fiction. He’s launched a website at www.cafezeitgeist.com.
*Pighed (resident porcine influence) is a figment of your imagination. VX Potenza (Kahuna Grande) is the founder and publisher of Signum Press. He lives in a rare deciduous hardwood tree on the northern slopes of the Guttersnipe Mountains in lower Albanistan, where he tinkers on his vintage 1967 four-door lime green time machine. Potenza first invented the slant-six beauty in 2012, but brought it back in time to speed up the patenting process. –TLB Chris Reddig (contributing photographer) is an Oakland-based photographer, videographer, and noiseographer. Chaleampon "Oates" Ritthichai (Webmaestro, layout) rules Manhattan from his 5600-square-foot split-level penthouse in Chelsea. His aviary is renowned, as are his elegant cultural salons and the string of famous guests who’ve eaten raw oysters and done Jager shots in his conservatory. –that one girl who keeps writing these things.
Jodie Rogers (Assistant Editor) wishes she were 17 again so that chasing around rock stars wouldn’t be so damned unbecoming. In her dotage, she now contents herself with gardening, compulsive home-improving, writing, graphic design, and working on the compilation of the comic Cuckoo.
Morgan Rowe-Morris (contributing writer) is a music reviewer and political campaigner based in Texas. Rudy Rucker, Jr. (donated services) is a cutie-pie extraordinaire and the devoted nerdling behind TheFirstTwins.com. 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 Executive Editor of a fine new journal entitled The Thresher and was founding editor of Mondo 2000 and Reality Hackers. He masterminds the Revolution from www.revolting.com. –tlb Marshall Serna (contributing photographer) 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." Find Sumerland on the web at www.sumerland.com. 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 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. Blair West (contributing writer) sits too close to the television on purpose so she can get cool cat-eye glasses. Frequently falls asleep in everyone else's bed to dream strange dreams, and to wrinkle their sheets. She also fully appreciates the city transit system because not only does it get you from point a. to point b. It also has all of those crazy looking folk that make for such great stories. 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 for a recent issue. Wiley is an itinerant actor (Austin, LA, New York) 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. –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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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.
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gregoryp™ (contributing
writer) 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 this winter. He
also has a film coming out, so yay for Richard. Photo by Lyn
Gaza, modified by Gomi Boy. FauxBio by tif.
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Mark Pesce (contributing writer) 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.
Jennifer
Robin >>> (contributing writer) is the
author of Bouzi and a wild artiste of the performance sort.
She 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. Robin on the Roq photographed by Crispin Rosenkranz.
–TLB
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Douglas Rushkoff (contributing writer) is the author
of Cyberia, Media Virus, Playing the Future, Coercion,
the novel Ecstasy Club, and other books. 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) was a Senior
Editor at Outside magazine and has a deep husky voice that’ll
drive you wild. But he hasn’t emailed me in a while, so,
ya know, I have no clue what he is up to at present. What’m
I supposed to do, a Google search or something? Geez, Brad, drop
a line, would ya? (Can you tell I start to get a little restless
by the time I get down to the W’s?) –TLB