Incubation Conference

Paul Brown is an artist and writer who has been specialising in art & technology for 30 years. He began using the internet in 1984 and from 1992 to 1999 he edited fineArt forum, one of the internet's longest established art 'zines. In 1984 he was the founding head of the United Kingdom's National Centre for Computer Aided Art and Design and in 1994 he returned to Australia after a two-year appointment as Professor of Art and Technology at Mississippi State University to head Griffith University's Multimedia Unit. In 1996 was the founding Adjunct Professor of Communication Design at Queensland University of Technology. From 1997-99 he was Chair of the Management Board of the Australian Network for Art Technology and he is a member of the Editorial Advisory Boards for both Leonardo, the journal of the International Society for Art, Science and Technology and Digital Creativity. His computer generated artwork has been exhibited internationally since 1967 and is currently on show in Europe, the USA and Australia. During 2000/2001 he is a New Media Arts Fellow of the Australia Council and he spent 2000 as artist-in-residence at the Centre for Computational Neuroscience and Robotics at the University of Sussex in Brighton, England. Examples of his artwork and publications are available on his website.

Web: http://www.paul-brown.com
Mail: paul@paul-brown.com

Catherine Byron

Catherine Byron trained as a medievalist at Somerville College Oxford, and currently teaches writing and medieval literature halftime at the Nottingham Trent University. Her other life is as a poet. Work-in-progress: narratives of the inscribed flesh, from abattoir to boudoir. Her sixth poetry collection The Getting of Vellum (2000) is inspired by her ongoing creative collaboration with Dublin-based artist and calligrapher Denis Brown. Their joint works on vellum and glass have been exhibited in major galleries throughout Europe. Her webpoem Renderers, commissioned by the Poetry Society, was created during a trAce attachment. In 2001 the British Council in India invited her to Delhi and Mumbai to talk about this project. She is a member of the trAce Management Board.

Web: http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/poets/byron/homepage.htm
http://www.poetrysoc.com/places/cbyron.htm
Mail: byron@ntlworld.com

Jane Dorner

Jane Dorner has been involved in web communities from the beginning. She comes from a publishing background with over 30 years experience in writing and editing and initiated The Electronic Author (formerly published by the Society of Authors). Jane Dorner is one of the Society representatives on the Board of the ALCS (Authors' Licensing & Collecting Society) and will take over as Chair of the CLA (Copyright Licensing Agency) at the beginning of 2002. Recent publications include:
Dorner, J. (April 2002) Get Ahead Series: Writing for the Internet. Oxford
University Press
Dorner, J. (Summer 2002) Creative Web Writing. London: A & C Black
Dorner, J. (2000, 2001 2nd edn) The Internet: A Writer's Guide. London: A &
C Black
Dorner, J. (2001) 'Using the Internet for research' in Rooney K. (Ed)
Encarta Concise Dictionary London: Bloomsbury

Web: http://www.editor.net - personal
http://www.internetwriter.co.uk - latest book
Mail: jane@editor.net

Marjorie Luesebrink

Marjorie Coverley Luesebrink writes electronic hypermedia fiction as M.D. Coverley. Her recent novel Califia is available on CD-ROM from Eastgate Systems. Her short stories and essays have appeared in frAme, Beehive, Iowa Review Web, Riding the Meridian, Cauldron and Net, Salt Hill, New River, Enterzone, Salt River Review and Aileron. She has taught creative writing for many years for the University of California extension, The Writing Company, and Irvine Valley College where she is a professor in the School of Humanities and Languages. She is a founding member of the Board of Directors of the Electronic Literature Association. Marjorie Luesebrink lives in Newport Beach, CA.

Web: http://califia.hispeed.com
Mail: luesebr1@ix.netcom.com

Alan Sondheim

Alan Sondheim's books include the anthology Being on Line: Net Subjectivity (Lusitania, 1996), Disorders of the Real (Station Hill, 1988), and .echo (alt-X digital arts, 2001) as well as numerous other chapbooks, books and articles. His video and films have been shown internationally. Sondheim co-moderates several email lists, including Cybermind, Cyberculture, and Wryting. For the past several years, he has been working on an "Internet Text", a continuous meditation on philosophy, psychology, language, body, sexuality, and virtuality. Sondheim lives in Brooklyn and Miami and teaches at Florida International University; he lectures and publishes widely on contemporary art and Internet issues. In 1999, Sondheim was the second virtual writer-in-residence for the trAce online writing community, originating in Nottingham, England. He is currently Associate Editor of the online magazine Beehive, and has assembled a special topic for the America Book Review on Codework. His video/soundwork has been recently screened at Millennium Film (NYC), as well as Western Ontario and York Universities (Toronto). Sondheim teaches in the trAce online writing program. He currently works on video with his partner Azure Carter, and soundwork in live and recorded performance.

Web:
Internet Text at http://www.anu.edu.au/english/internet_txt
Partial at http://lists.village.virginia.edu/~spoons/internet_txt.html
Trace Projects at http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/writers/sondheim/index.htm
CDROM of collected work 1994-2000/1 available: write sondheim@panix.com
Mail: sondheim@panix.com

Sue Thomas (Programme Chair)

Sue Thomas is the founder and Artistic Director of trAce. She has managed numerous significant web-based creative writing projects including three virtual residencies; several creative writing collaborations including The Noon Quilt, Home and Migrating Memories; the creation of the trAce Online Writing School, and the development and management of the trAce Online Community itself. She has over ten years' experience of teaching writing in the UK and the US, and in 1994 she developed and validated the Master of Arts degree in Writing at The Nottingham Trent University. During that time she wrote A Handbook for Creative Writing Tutors. Her books also include the novels Correspondence (short-listed for the Arthur C Clarke Award) and Water, and an anthology of contemporary short stories Wild Women, 1994. She has been working with the arts and technology since 1986 and has been teaching online since 1996. Her online work includes a web-interpretation of Correspondence at Riding the Meridian; Imagining a Stone at Ensemble Logic and Choragraphy; and Lines at Lux: notes for an electronic writing. With Teri Hoskin, she co-edited the Noon Quilt website and book. She is currently writing a novel of virtual life.

Web: http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/suethomas
Mail: sue.thomas@ntu.ac.uk

Lawrence Upton

Lawrence Upton is a solo and collaborative poet, artist and performer. He chairs Sub Voicive Poetry readings and Sub Voicive Colloquia in association with Centre for Contemporary Poetics Research at Birkbeck College, London. He is conducting doctoral research into microcomputers and creativity. He co-edited Word Score Utterance Choreography in verbal and visual poetry and On word: an anthology of contemporary poetry. His Game on a line discusses the links and differences between visual poetry on the page and on the screen. His latest publications are Meadows (2000) and huming / queuing (1999). His Wire Sculptures is forthcoming from Reality Street.

Web: http://pages.britishlibrary.net/lawrence.upton/
http://pages.britishlibrary.net/svp/
Mail: lawrence.upton@britishlibrary.net

geniwate

geniwate is an Australian electronic writer and a distance educationalist at the University of South Australia. Her work rice was co-winner of the 1998 trAce/Alt-x International Hypertext Competition and her work Nepabunna was a finalist in the Electronic Literature Organisation's Poetry Award, 2001 (versions at http://www.idaspoetics.com.au). Currently she is working on 6 Calabi-Yau poems, an exploration of the epistemology and psychology of theoretical physics, and collaborating with Dane on The identity machine, an interactive self-help quiz. Geni is convenor of Divergence, a network of electronic writers in Australia and a member of the Board of ANAT (Australian Network for Art and Technology (http://www.anat.org.au). As a distance educationalist, she is involved in the creation of online undergraduate and postgraduate courses using a variety of communications technologies.

Web: http://www.machinecorporation.com
Mail: geniwate@ozemail.com.au

Helen Whitehead

Helen Whitehead is a writer and editor who has been working with online media since 1985. She has led collaborative webwriting projects and has taught webwriting and the Internet to a variety of groups from 6-year-olds to attendees at the Arvon Foundation residential writing courses in Yorkshire, UK. In 2000/2001 she was the recipient of a UK Year of the Artist Award to create a website based on stories from textile workers and the many correlations between textiles and computers from the Jacquard loom up to date. She holds an MA in Writing from The Nottingham Trent University, where she specialised in hypertext fiction on the Web. She is currently website editor and project developer for the trAce Online Writing Centre and teaches at the trAce Online Writing School.