- Lauren Cornell People
Lauren Cornell is Executive Director of Rhizome and oversees the organization's programs to promote and contextualize new media art. She started with Rhizome in May 2005. Previously she worked as a curator, writer and arts administrator in New York, including on the Andy Warhol Film Project at the Whitney Museum and as Executive Director of Ocularis from 2002–2004; she also worked as a youth media educator and organizer, has been published in international and online art outlets, and has curated screenings, exhibitions and performances at venues in New York, London and Warsaw.
- Dara Greenwald People
Dara Greenwald is an interdisciplinary artist with an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BA from Oberlin College; she taught part-time at SAIC Film/Video/New Media (2003–2005), was Distribution Manager at the Video Data Bank (1998–2005) and pursued an MFA at RPI in 2007. Her practice is experimental and socially engaged, influenced by punk DIY and anarchist mutual-aid values; she co-founded the tactical media group Pink Bloque. Her single-channel videos have screened internationally and her writing appeared in outlets including Clamor and the Journal of Aesthetics & Protest.
- Jennifer Gonzalez People
Jennifer Gonz·lez teaches at the University of California at Santa Cruz; her writings on art, technology and the body have appeared in Frieze, World Art, Art Journal and Inscriptions and in anthologies including The Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, The Cyborg Handbook, The Cybercultures Reader and Race in Cyberspace. She was recently awarded the Joanne Cassullo Teaching Fellowship at the Whitney Museum of American Art; she taught critical theory in the Whitney Independent Study Program in the fall of 2002.
- Melinda Rackham People
Melinda Rackham is an artist and writer based in Sydney, Australia; she has worked online since the mid 1990s from the domain www.subtle.net, creating imaginal and hypertextual sites that explore online identity, locality, sexuality, community, viral symbiosis and trans species relations. She is undertaking a Phd in Virtual Media at College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales; her writing has appeared in Ctheory, Culture Machine, Leonardo and Realtime, and she has presented at Contagion (Australia), Invencao (Brazil) and Consciousness Reframed (Wales). She has held residencies at Polar Circuit (Finland) and Discovery at Banff Center for the Arts (Canada); her award-winning web works have been included in Beyond Interface, Arco Electronico, Perspecta, Transmediale, File, Art Entertainment Network, The Montreal Biennale, European Media Art Festival and ISEA.
- Cynthia Lovett People
Cynthia Lovett received an MPS from the Tisch School of the Arts - Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University (2001) and an MFA from Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia (1996); she participated in residencies including the PS1 International Studio Program and the Harvestworks New Works Residency (1998). She has exhibited video and installation works at The Sculpture Center, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Momenta Art (Brooklyn), and the Galleries at Moore College of Art in Philadelphia; she was a Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Swing Space Artist and an artist in residence at the Rotunda Gallery/BCAT Multimedia Residency (2005-06) and the Experimental Television Center (2006). She received a Finishing Funds 2006 award; website http://www.bewilderlab.com/projects/.
- Carolyn Tennant People
Carolyn Tennant holds an MFA from SUNY at Buffalo and a BA (1997) from Hampshire College; additional studies include Squeaky Wheel (2003), Visual Studies Workshop (2002), Mount Holyoke (1993–95), Cornell (1993–94) and the Salt Center for Documentary Field Studies (1994). Since 6/2002 she has been affiliated with the Experimental Television Center (Newark Valley, NY) and from 1/2002 served as Research Assistant for Dr. Zimmermann at Ithaca College, performing copy editing and administrative work. Her Chicago employment included office-manager and receptionist roles; her productions include Fenceline, The Last Hand Loader, Rulloff's Brain, Mazamorreo (recipient of a $10,000 Ill. Humanities Council grant), and the multi-media You Don't Feed Me.