Contributors

Tiffany Lee Brown (Editrix) supposedly lives in Portland, Oregon. Since moving back to her proper Coast, Miss Brown works on her novel, does web/wireless/etc. gigs, and nervously awaits publication of Sex & Single Girls, a Seal Press anthology to which she contributed a charming piece called "Confusion is Sex." She also writes for magazines like Wired, Bookforum, and Bust, and contributes to books including The Bust Guide to the New Girl Order and the Covert Culture Sourcebook. Our lil’ Tif also likes to putter in her garden, and sing with Black Orchid, the Gone Orchestra, and Cuntronica. Find her at www.magdalen.com or www.corporatecollapse.com.

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

Shannon Cromwell (contributing artist) is a migratory bird, visual artist (fine art, unrefined art, digital paintings, web design, photography, scanography, sculpture, fusion, colour, etc.. all the media she can slip her mind into, to keep her hands from shaking). She can be messaged at one.wing@angelfire.com.

gregoryp ^tm (contributing writer) gregoryp™’s last known whereabouts was in a little truckstop just outside Nashville, Tenn., where this photograph was taken. As gregoryp ^tm, the writer has written for NetSlaves, SIGNUM, and contributed to How To Mutate and Take Over the World, CoffeeHouse: Writings from the World Wide Web, Sneakers: A Global Footwear Experiment, and other weird anthologies.

He has spent far too much time working for dot-coms with dubious biz-plans and no revenue to speak of. His alter-ego credits include: Fast Company, Wired, Bikini, Soma, New Mexico magazine, and a very brief stint as the editor of the Haight-Ashbury Free Press. gregoryp(tm) is also the editor of a forthcoming print-collage ’zine called "Random Cool Bits."

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.

Todd Grimson (contributing writer) is the award-winning author of Brand New Cherry Flavor, Stainless, and Within Normal Limits. The subject of his new novel is super-thrilling, but I dunno if I should be telling all of you. What else can I say that he won’t get annoyed with me about? Um, he has contributed fiction to a variety of magazines, like BOMB, but the most important of them is Anodyne (well, it’s the most important to me because I happened to be editing it). Sometimes he crawls out of the deep dark damp depths of the Pacific Northwest and lives for short stints at the Chelsea Hotel, which is a terribly romantic and boho thing to do. He also makes very amusing dinner conversation at Brazilian restaurants.–TLB

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 Paraguay. 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://envy.nu/mangled

Syd Jesus (contributing artist) is the founder and leader of the dUdÜ art collective. –TLB

Richard Kadrey (Contributing Editor and Covert Culture columnist) is a snake-oil salesman. Don’t trust him with your daughter! Don’t listen to a word that evil man sez! Don’t look into his eyes or he’ll hypnotise ya! Watch out fer his demonic followers, who’ll kidnap ya in yr sleep!

Don’t, for the sake of Our Lord God Almighty, do NOT seek out the new comic he wrote for VERTIGO, a comic called Accelerate which was drawn & quartered by the illustrious Pander Bros.! Do not read his novels Metrophage and Kamikaze l’Amour, or 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 the columnist behind "Show Business Insider." He lurks around Brooklyn in fab ties and groovy glasses. –TLB

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. The research which provided the backdrop to his Sympathetic Nervous System story (for SIGNUM) 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." His personal website may be perused at http://www.FreshSquid.com.

Richard Meltzer (contributing writer) co-invented rock criticism. He is the author of lotsa books, including The Aesthetics of Rock, and recently on Da Capo Press, A Whore Just Like the Rest. He drinks good beer and talks a good line of shit, you know? A great guy all around, and a contributor to SIGNUM! I have lost his bio. So sue me. I’ll put it up here as soon as I find it. Really. –TLB

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 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. 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

Mark Pesce (contributing writer) Internationally recognized as the man who brought virtual reality into the World Wide Web, Mark Pesce has been exploring the frontiers of the future for nearly two decades. The author of three books — including Browsing and Building Cyberspace — Pesce has written for WIRED, Feed, Salon, and numerous Ziff-Davis periodicals. His next book, The Playful World: Interactive Toys and the Future of the Imagination, which examines the changing world of children’s entertainments, will be published by Ballantine Books in September 2000.

Pesce received an appointment as Chair of the Interactive Media Program at the University of Southern California’s world-renowned School of Cinema-Television. His mandate — to bring cinema and broadcast television into the interactive era — led him to create a program that encourages creative vision and is producing a generation of entertainment professionals shaping the media of the next century.

Pighed (contributing designer), a.k.a. Mark Meadows, has too many fancy awards and accolades to be in here with us in the regular ol’ pigsty. Watch his brain melt beautifully at www.boar.com. —TLB

VX Potenza (contributing writer and chief amoeba) is the founder and publisher of SIGNUM. In his spare time, he hand-paints leather interiors for 1970s Dodge Tradesman vans, and conducts stealth tours to Havana.–TLB

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

Chaleampon "Oates" Ritthichai (Webmaestro, layout) is the webmaster on twelve 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 very cool evenings of performance & music. And! Superstar that Jennifer is, she also hosts a 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. –TLB

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.

Rudy Rucker, Jr. (donated services) is a cutie-pie geekboy extraordinaire. 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. 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. Go out & get it, and then vote for Mr.Sirius as a write-in candidate in November. Okay? Okay!–TLB

Dave Walsh (contributing writer) is one of those people who’s, like, so cool yet so unpretentious about it that you think, wow, is everyone in Ireland this amazing? Well, they aren’t, but this boy is truly a credit to his country. I plan to show up on his doorstep in Dublin any day now. So anyway, I’m a big fan. Daev’s 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. He is the author of Polymorph and Fine Prey, both published by Penguin/Roc, and Evolution’s Darling (Four Walls Eight Windows). 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. . NOTE: Go get Scott’s third & latest novel, Evolution’s Darling. You should read the reviews! He even got a really positive, fancy one in the Times book review thingie this summer! I am totally impressed!! –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 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.