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Eric de Bruyn teaches art history at the University of Groningen.His recent publications include “Land Art in the Mediascape” inReady to Shoot: Fernsehgalerie Gerry Schum (Dusseldorf 2003)and “The Expanded Field of Cinema, or Exercise on the Perimeterof a Square” in X-Screen (Vienna 2003).

Helene Furján is Assistant Professor of Architecture at RiceUniversity. She has a practice with Jeremy Leman, received herPh.D. from Princeton University in 2001, and has taught at UCLA,SCI-Arc, the Architectural Association, the Bartlett (UniversityCollege of London), and Princeton University. Her essays and reviewsare published in AAFiles, Assemblage, Casabella, and Journal ofArchitecture, and she is currently working on a book on John Soane’shouse-museum, and a second project with Sylvia Lavin, Crib Sheets(forthcoming from Monacelli) tracking “the contemporary.”

Alexander Galloway is Assistant Professor of Media Ecology atNew York University and a founding member of Radical SoftwareGroup. His book Protocol: How Control Exists After Decentralizationis published by The MIT Press.

Dan Graham is an artist-writer living in New York. Widely recog-nized as a leading member of the 1960s conceptual art movement,his present work is situated on the boundary between art andarchitecture. His collected writings have appeared in two volumes,Rock My Religion and Two-Way Mirror Power.

Christopher Kelty teaches the history and anthropology of scienceand technology at Rice University in Houston, Texas. He researchesand writes about free and open source software, intellectual prop-erty, software and culture, and the history of software and lin-guistics. Together with Hannah Landecker he has made a shortfilm about cells.

Hannah Landecker, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at RiceUniversity, is a historian and anthropologist of the life sciences.Her work concerns the history of tissue culture, the origins anduse of microcinematography, ethnography of contemporary lifesciences, and social and cultural meanings of biotechnology.

James Meyer teaches contemporary art at Emory University. Heis the author of Minimalism: Art and Polemics in the 1960s (YaleUniversity Press, 2001) and editor of Minimalism (Phaidon, 2000),as well as Gregg Bordowitz, The AIDS Crisis Is Ridiculous andOther Writings 1986–2004 and Carl Andre, Cuts: Texts 1959–2003,both forthcoming from The MIT Press.

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Eugene Thacker is Assistant Professor of New Media in GeorgiaInstitute of Technology’s School of Literature, Communication, &Culture. He works with the Biotech Hobbyist collective, and hisbook Biomedia is published by the University of Minnesota Press.

Bernard Tschumi exhibited and published The ManhattanTranscripts (Academy Editions) in 1981, and is the author ofArchitecture and Disjunction (MIT Press, 1994). In 1983, he wonthe competition to design the Parc de la Villette in Paris and estab-lished his architectural office there, followed by a New York officein 1988. He is currently designing major museums in New York,Athens, and São Paulo, as well as buildings in Cincinnati and Geneva.He was Dean of the Graduate School of Architecture, Planningand Preservation at Columbia University from 1988 to 2003.

Enrique Walker is Adjunct Assistant Professor of Architecture atColumbia University, and also teaches at the Pratt Institute. He iscurrently completing a Ph.D. thesis on the work of Georges Perecin the Histories and Theories Programme at the ArchitecturalAssociation, and has published interviews with architects sincethe mid-1990s, some of which were collected in the book 12Interviews (1998), of which he is coauthor.

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