Contributors

Eric de Bruyn teaches art history at the University of Groningen.

His recent publications include Land Art in the Mediascape in
Ready to Shoot: Fernsehgalerie Gerry Schum (Dusseldorf 2003)
and The Expanded Field of Cinema, or Exercise on the Perimeter
of a Square in X-Screen (Vienna 2003).
Helene Furjn is Assistant Professor of Architecture at Rice
University. She has a practice with Jeremy Leman, received her
Ph.D. from Princeton University in 2001, and has taught at UCLA,
SCI-Arc, the Architectural Association, the Bartlett (University
College of London), and Princeton University. Her essays and reviews
are published in AAFiles, Assemblage, Casabella, and Journal of
Architecture, and she is currently working on a book on John Soanes
house-museum, and a second project with Sylvia Lavin, Crib Sheets
(forthcoming from Monacelli) tracking the contemporary.
Alexander Galloway is Assistant Professor of Media Ecology at
New York University and a founding member of Radical Software
Group. His book Protocol: How Control Exists After Decentralization
is published by The MIT Press.
Dan Graham is an artist-writer living in New York. Widely recognized as a leading member of the 1960s conceptual art movement,
his present work is situated on the boundary between art and
architecture. His collected writings have appeared in two volumes,
Rock My Religion and Two-Way Mirror Power.
Christopher Kelty teaches the history and anthropology of science
and technology at Rice University in Houston, Texas. He researches
and writes about free and open source software, intellectual property, software and culture, and the history of software and linguistics. Together with Hannah Landecker he has made a short
film about cells.
Hannah Landecker, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Rice
University, is a historian and anthropologist of the life sciences.
Her work concerns the history of tissue culture, the origins and
use of microcinematography, ethnography of contemporary life
sciences, and social and cultural meanings of biotechnology.
James Meyer teaches contemporary art at Emory University. He
is the author of Minimalism: Art and Polemics in the 1960s (Yale
University Press, 2001) and editor of Minimalism (Phaidon, 2000),
as well as Gregg Bordowitz, The AIDS Crisis Is Ridiculous and
Other Writings 19862004 and Carl Andre, Cuts: Texts 19592003,
both forthcoming from The MIT Press.
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Eugene Thacker is Assistant Professor of New Media in Georgia

Institute of Technologys School of Literature, Communication, &
Culture. He works with the Biotech Hobbyist collective, and his
book Biomedia is published by the University of Minnesota Press.
Bernard Tschumi exhibited and published The Manhattan
Transcripts (Academy Editions) in 1981, and is the author of
Architecture and Disjunction (MIT Press, 1994). In 1983, he won
the competition to design the Parc de la Villette in Paris and established his architectural office there, followed by a New York office
in 1988. He is currently designing major museums in New York,
Athens, and So Paulo, as well as buildings in Cincinnati and Geneva.
He was Dean of the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning
and Preservation at Columbia University from 1988 to 2003.
Enrique Walker is Adjunct Assistant Professor of Architecture at
Columbia University, and also teaches at the Pratt Institute. He is
currently completing a Ph.D. thesis on the work of Georges Perec
in the Histories and Theories Programme at the Architectural
Association, and has published interviews with architects since
the mid-1990s, some of which were collected in the book 12
Interviews (1998), of which he is coauthor.