Amy Alexander

Amy Alexander has worked in film, video, music, computer animation and new media. She holds a BA in Communications and Film from Rowan University and an MFA in Film and Video from the California Institute of the Arts. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Visual Arts at the University of California, San Diego. Since 1996, she has been working primarily in net art and software art, exploring dynamic processes, temporal structures, net politics and net culture. Much of her recent work has been in live Internet performance and software art, playing with the relationships between new media and early abstract animated filmmaking, as well as the juxtaposition of geek culture and pop culture. Amy's Internet projects include plagiarist.org, theBot, netsong (with Peter Traub), and The Multi-Cultural Recycler. Her net art performance projects include B0timati0n and Netaesthesia. Amy's work has been exhibited on the Internet and at venues including SIGGRAPH, Ars Electronica, ISEA, Steirischer Herbst, Transmediale, The Webby Awards, disinfo.com, Borderhack, Net.congestion, the European Media Arts Festival, Read_me 1.2, and Yahoo.