Jenny Weight (geniwate) lives in Adelaide, Australia. She spent several years dabbling in more conventional literary forms before turning on her computer. She had a short collection of poetry entitled <life in the oort cloud> published 1996 (wakefield press/friendly st)and before that a play of hers called <the revivalists> was performed a couple of times.

More recently she has been incorporating puppetry and soundscapes in performance poetry. The leap from performance poetry to Jenny's brand of digital poetry has not been great. It is her continuing project to integrate audio and visual material with text. Of course, acquiring the technical skills has been, and remains, a different matter.

Jenny, her partner Oscar and her dictaphone went to Vietnam at Christmas, 1997. The depth of complexity associated with relative wealth and cultural difference that the trip revealed to her led to the development of <rice> . when she received a new media artist residency at the resource centre in adelaide she was given opportunity to develop the piece.

The development of this project was made possible through the support of the Media Resource Centre and the Australia Council, the Australian Federal Government's arts funding and advisory body.

Jenny will be returning to Asia in May. She feels there are more treasures awaiting the fractured type of intellectual colonialism she likes to indulge.