Long
bio
Short
bio
Very
short bio
General Interest
Short General
Interest Bio
|
Allucquére
Rosanne (Sandy) Stone is Associate Professor and Founding Director of
the Advanced Communication Technologies Laboratory (ACTLab) and the Convergent
Media program of the department of Radio-TV-Film at the University of
Texas at Austin; Senior Artist at the Banff Centre for the Arts; and Fellow
of the Humanities Research Institute, University of California, Irvine.
She has been a visiting lecturer in the departments of Communication and
Sociology at the University of California San Diego, where she taught
film, linguistics, gender, cultural studies, and feminist theory. She
has conducted research on the neurological basis of vision and hearing
for National Institutes of Health; was a member of the Bell Telephone
Laboratories Special Systems Exploratory Development Group; has been a
consultant, computer programmer, technical writer and engineering manager
in Silicon Valley; and worked with Jimi Hendrix in music recording. She
was invited to Sundance Institute in 1986. She produces the Monterey Symphony
radio broadcast series. She is director of the Group for the Study of
Virtual Systems at the Center for Cultural Studies, UC Santa Cruz, was
program chair and organizer for the 1991 Second International Conference
on Cyberspace, member of the program committee for the Third International
Conference on Cyberspace in 1993, and director of the subsequent Conferences
on Cyberspace up to and including the present ones. Her academic publications
include "Will The Real Body Please Stand Up?: Boundary Stories About Virtual
Cultures", in Michael Benedikt, ed.: "Cyberspace: First Steps" (MIT Press);
"Sex, Death, and Architecture", in Architecture- New York (ANY); "Virtual
Systems", in Jonathan Crary and Sanford Kwinter, eds.: "ZONE 6: Incorporations"
(MIT); "The Architecture of Elsewhere", in Hraszthan Zeitlian (ed.), "Semiotext(e)
Architecture"; and "The Empire Strikes Back: A Posttranssexual Manifesto",
in Kristina Straub and Julia Epstein, eds.: "Body Guards: The Cultural
Politics of Sexual Ambiguity" (Routledge), recently reprinted in Camera
Obscura 29 and in many other publications.. Her book "The War of Desire
and Technology at the Close of the Mechanical Age" was published by MIT
Press in September 1995 (hardcover) and September 1996 (paperback), and
is currently available in English, Italian, Japanese, Swedish, and Chinese.
Her work has appeared in such publications as Lusitania, ANY (Architecture
New York), and Assemblage. Her experiments with theory as performance
are well known, and she is currently touring a one-person "theoryperformance"
on technology, body, and desire.
Allucquére
Rosanne (Sandy) Stone is Associate Professor and Founding Director of
the Advanced Communication Technologies Laboratory (ACTLab) and the Convergent
Media program of the University of Texas at Austin; Senior Artist at the
Banff Centre for the Arts; and Fellow of the Humanities Research Institute,
University of California, Irvine. In various incarnations she has been
a filmmaker, rock 'n roll music engineer, neurologist, social scientist,
cultural theorist, and performer. She is the author of numerous publications
including "The Empire Strikes Back: A Posttranssexual Manifesto" and "The
War of Desire and Technology at the Close of the Mechanical Age", both
of which are available in a wide selection of translated editions. She
lives in Austin, Texas and Santa Cruz, California with her husband Cynbe
ru Taren (aka Jeffrey Prothero) and their cat, /dev/cat.
Sandy
Stone was born in a tiny village on the island of Q--. She now lives
in S--, where she pays taxes and awaits death.
Allucquére
Rosanne (Sandy) Stone is Associate Professor and Founding Director
of the Advanced Communication Technologies Laboratory at UT Austin,
Senior Artist at the Banff Centre for the Arts, and a Fellow of the
Humanities Research Institute, UC Irvine. She has been a filmmaker,
rock 'n roll music engineer, neurologist, social scientist, science
fiction author, cultural theorist, and performer.
Go: Back to Sandy's home
page
|
|
