Incubation Conference

Randy Adams
Randy Adams is a Canadian writer and visual artist. He has worked as an arts journalist and travel writer. His photography and mixed media work has been exhibited and collected by public galleries, museums, and archives. He has published poetry and essays in several Canadian magazines. His digital work has been featured in various online publications. An active member of the trAce community since 1999, he was the first writer/artist to be awarded a trAce Writer's Studio. He is presently Associate Editor responsible for content on trAce's homepage.

Paul Brown

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. 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. During 2000/2001 he was 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. He is currently Visiting Research Fellow at Birkbeck College, University of London where he is working on their AHRB-funded CACHe project (Computer Arts, Contexts, Histories, etc...) 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 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. From 2003-2006 Catherine is AHRB Creative Fellow in Writing based at NTU, and will be experimenting further in New Media writing, as well as working on poetry and memoir for the printed page.

Web: http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/poets/byron/homepage.htm
http://www.poetrysociety.org.uk/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. Last year she was the Chair of the CLA (Copyright Licensing Agency). During her two-year term, she worked to strengthen concord in the writer-publisher-user communities and to work towards a joint reconciliation of the various interests involved in digital copying.

Recent publications include:
Dorner, J. (2004) One Step Ahead Series: Writing Bids and Funding Applications. Oxford University Press
Dorner, J. (2002) One Step Ahead Series: Writing for the Internet. Oxford University Press
Dorner, J. (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 hyperfiction novel, Califia, is available on CD-ROM from Eastgate Systems; her electronic novel-in-progress is The Book of Going Forth by Day. Her short stories and essays have appeared in several e-zines including frAme, Beehive, The Iowa Review Web, Riding the Meridian, Cauldron & Net, and The Blue Moon Review. Luesebrink is currently President of the Board of Directors of the Electronic Literature Organization; she is also on the editorial boards of The Blue Moon Review, Word Circuits, and InfLect. Luesebrink teaches writing and literature at Irvine Valley College in California.

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

Simon Mills

After working in the commercial website development sector for several years Simon Mills became the Website Developer for the trAce Online Writing Centre. He also edits frAme: the Online Journal of Culture and Technology and is a member of the trAce editorial board. He has a BA(Hons) in Philosophy from the University of Nottingham and an MA in Writing and MSc in Multimedia from The Nottingham Trent University.

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 New York and lectures and publishes widely on contemporary art and Internet issues. In 1999, Sondheim was the second virtual writer-in-residence for trAce and has assembled a special topic for the America Book Review on Codework. His video/soundwork has been regularly screened at Millennium Film (NYC), and numerous other venues. 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:
Check out http://www.asondheim.org
Trace projects at http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/writers/sondheim/index.htm

Sue Thomas (Programme Chair)

Sue Thomas is the founder and Artistic Director of trAce. Her books include Correspondence (short-listed for the Arthur C Clarke Award), Water, and Wild Women. With Teri Hoskin, she co-edited the Noon Quilt website and book. Other online work includes a web-configuration of Correspondence at Riding the Meridian and Lines at Lux: notes for an electronic writing. Recent publications include an excerpt from Correspondence in Reload: Rethinking Women and Cyberculture (MIT Press) and Spivak in The Barcelona Review. Hello World: travels in virtuality, from which Spivak is taken, reconciles the virtual and the physical through their landscapes and bodies and is forthcoming from Raw Nerve Books in 2004.

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 colloquia in association with Centre for Contemporary Poetics Research at Birkbeck College, London; and is co-Chair of Writers Forum, publishing and workshops. He is conducting doctoral research into microcomputers and creativity and participates actively in Incubation and e-poetry. 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 Wire Sculptures (Reality Street 2003) and San' (housepress, Canada 2003). Pictures, Cartoon Strips is forthcoming from Sound & Language

Web: http://www.soton.ac.uk/~bepc/
Mail: lawrence.upton@britishlibrary.net

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.