Contributor's Biographies and Contact Information
James Allan
James Allan, 1959, Canada. Studied at the Ontario College of
Art(experimental film and painting). Member of interaccess.org and
teleportacia.org. Lives in Toronto. You can find more work at his
website.
tom bell
tom bell is a psychologist in private practice near Nashville, TN, USA.
He has also been a poet most of his life and has been writing web poetry
and web art for several years. More examples of his online work.
Wendy Taylor Carlisle
Wendy Taylor Carlisle lives in East Texas with her husband, David. Her
poems have appeared in Acornwhistle, Borderlands, Passager, Prairie Dog,
Maverick and The Texas Observer and on line at Riding the Meridian, The
Astrophysicists Tango Partner, Unlikely Stories, Isibongo, Conspire, Tintern
Abbey, Zuzu's Petals & 2River View. She has won The Lipscomb Award for
Excellence in Poetry, A Passager Poetry Contest Award and has been three
times nominated for Pushcart Prizes. Her book Reading Berryman to the Dog,
is forthcoming from Jacaranda Press, San Jose, CA. You can find more of her work online at 2River.
geniwate
geniwate has been involved in web art for a couple of years. Her first piece was rice, which won the
1999 trAce/Alt-x International Hypertext Competition. Her current project is Nepabunna, SA, which
involves creating 3D animations of remote sensing images. You can see both projects at Idas Poetics.
Joe Keenan
Joe Keenan lives and writes in Buffalo, NY, USA. His chance-modulated
and kinetic visual poems can be found at www.buffnet.net/~joecow.
Christine Kennedy
Christine Kennedy was born in London in 1956. She studied Fine Art at
Sheffield Hallam
University, and Combined Studies at Leicester University reading History of
Art, English,
Archaeology and Classical Studies. She has been exhibiting regularly since
1994, and her
varied ouput includes text works, installations and artists books. She is a
contributor to the
current Riding the Meridian Internet literary magazine, Spring 2000 issue on
Women and
Technology. You can find more of her work at her homepage.
David Knoebel
David Knoebel was born in Pennsylvania USA in 1949
and began to draw cartoons as soon as he could push a
crayon. He added words, beginning with "yes" and "no",
as he learned them. He spent the summers of his
childhood working at an amusement park where he
discovered his love for movement, space, and light. After
graduation from Yale, he attended the Skowhegan School
of Painting and Sculpture. He moved to New York City in
1973 and had his first one man show there in 1976. Since
then, his work has been seen in galleries throughout the
US and in Europe.
Knoebel's web page, "Click Poetry" appeared in 1996.
His work has been featured on Compuserve, About.com,
Light & Dust, Zn, trAce, Cauldron & Net, Webartery,
Web3D/VRML 2000, the International Computer Graphics
Festival, and The Poets' Place.
Patrick Lichty
Gregory Little
Gregory Little is an electronic media artist working with philosophical and
theoretical issues related to the technologies of immersive virtual reality,
netart, and avatars; specifically with respect to issues of identity,
embodiment, and human sentience. He has presented and exhibited his work in
numerous international venues, including Ars Electronica, Invencao,
Consciousness Reframed, Webs of Discourse, CADE, as well as museums,
galleries, and alternative spaces. His essay, łA Manifesto for Avatars˛ was
published in Intertexts in 1998. At present he is a visiting researcher at
the Virtual Reality Centre at the University of Teesside, and at the CAVE
Lab, New Media Center, The University of Michigan. He is a Visiting
Assistant Professor of Computer Art/New Media at Bowling Green State
University, and an Assistant Professor of Art at Kent State University.
He has an MFA in Painting from the Yale School of Art, and a BFA in Painting
from Indiana University. Gregory Little has been working with interactive
electronic media since 1990. You can find more of his work online at Kent State.
M.D. Coverley (Marjorie Coverley Luesebrink)
M.D. Coverley (Marjorie Coverley Luesebrink, MFA) writes electronic
hypermedia fiction. Her full-length novel, Califia (Eastgate Systems 2000),
is available on CD-ROM. Her web short stories and poetry have appeared in
Iowa Review Web, Riding the Meridian, Cauldron and Net, Salt Hill, New
River, Enterzone, and Aileron. Her work has been featured at the Guggenheim
Museum in New York, at the Transcriptions Series at UC Santa Barbara, at the
Digital Arts Center at UCLA, and on-line at trAce (Nottingham University,
UK), Blast 5 (Alt X), and Room Without Walls.
She has curated a collection of women writing on the web with Carolyn
Guertin, *The Progressive Dinner Party* (Riding the Meridian, Spring 2000)
and will curate a collection of men working in web-specific literature this
fall entitled *Jumpin' at the Diner* for Meridian with Jennifer Ley. M.D. Coverley lives in
Newport Beach, CA and teaches writing at Irvine Valley College. You can see
more fiction on the web at her web site.
Charles Atlas Sheppard
Charles Atlas Sheppard is a Plains Cree Indian from Saskatchewan Canada.
He is a freelance journalist/photographer/artist and is the editor of
The Nepenthe Journal. He is currently creating a large multimedia website
devoted to The Trickster with myths from around the world.
Barry Smylie
Smylie became a professional artist in 1965 and has been creating internet content for 3 years. His web site is at http://barrysmylie.com.
He doesn't like writing or even talking about himself (he's a bore). Who are you and what
have you been doing since you were born?
Alan Sondheim
Alan Sondheim is currently
working on Net theory and with Foofwa d'Immobilite and Azure
Carter on avant-garde dance and video projects. His work can be found here.
David Sutherland
Work of David's has appeared in The American Literary Review, The
Hollins Critic, The Northern Michigan Journal, The Reader (Oxford
University), The Cortland Review and The Midwest Quarterly.
Recent awards include a Pushcart Nomination, with a second
collection of poems recently published by Archer Books this July. Finally,
David serves as managing editor for an Internet publication
called "Recursive Angel".
"Steel Umbrellas" is available through Archer.
Susan Terris
Susan Terris' book CURVED SPACE was published by the La Jolla Poets Press in
January, 1998. In 1999, she had two new poetry books published: EYE OF THE
HOLOCAUST (Arctos Press) and ANGELS OF BATAAN (Pudding House Publications).
Other recent books are: Killing In The Comfort Zone (Pudding House
Publications) and Nell's Quilt (Farrar, Straus & Giroux). In 1998-00, Ms.
Terris had 5 poems nominated for Pushcart Prizes, won first place in 5 poetry
competitions, and was a 2nd place winner or finalist in 16 other national
competitions. Ms. Terris has had poetry published (partial listing) in many
magazines and journals including The Antioch Review, The Midwest Quarterly,
Painted Bride Quarterly, Southern California Anthology, Nimrod, and The
Southern Poetry Review.
On-line she has had work (partial listing) in Recursive Angel, Conspire, Web
De Sol, Perihelion, Poetry Daily, New Works Review, The Blue Penny Quarterly,
Blue Moon Review, In Vivo, Switched-on Gutenberg, Kudzu, Highbeams, Thunder
Sandwich, Ariga:Visions, Zero City, Wise Women'sWeb, & Zuzu's Petals.
You may read more of her poetry at her
website.
Ted Warnell - Poem by Nari
Poem by Nari is Ted Warnell and friends:
<PRE>
The works of Poem by Nari are results of a creative collaboration;
artists, writers, computer programmers, and Netizens of the world.
Digital code and data, program logic, information from cyberspace,
all things digital, are source materials for creative exploration.
Your participation is welcomed. You can send your ideas and logic,
cyberstream data and debris via email to: PbNari
</PRE>
in any crowd of normal people, Poem by Nari is the ab one
in any group of like minded artists, Poem by Nari is the un one
Poem by Nari is a crowd of one,
a forest of a single blade of grass in a sea of concrete,
the out one
<PRE>
6098 Released Atomic Coordinate Entries
Molecule Type
5397 proteins, peptides, and viruses
241 protein/nucleic acid complexes
447 nucleic acids
12 carbohydrates
Experimental Technique
161 theoretical modeling
924 NMR
5013 diffraction and other
Total size of the atomic coordinate entry
database is 2544 Mbytes uncompressed.
</PRE>
Poem by Nari is a binary poem.
Joel Weishaus
Joel Weishaus was born in Brooklyn. In his late teens he was a Madison
Avenue advertising executive. Soon after his 21st birthday, he quit his
job and flew to Los Angeles, where he spent three months in a heat wave
deciding how to proceed with his life. He returned to New York dedicating
himself to whatever creativity would being. After a stint in the military,
he worked at many different jobs--always writing and/or
and sculpting--, did
year-long hermitage in the mountains of N. California, lived in Zen
Centers, and moved to New Mexico, in 1977, where he first was an Adjunct
Curator (Video Art) at The University of New Mexico Fine Arts Museum,
then, for seven years,
a
Writer-In-Residence at the university's Center for Southwest
Research. In June 2000, Weishaus left New Mexico for Portland, Oregon.
Please see links under Joel Weishaus at yahoo.com, and other
search engines (some of which will be temporarly broken), until he
has had the chance to establish another home.
Jennifer Ley
Founder of the internet literary magazine Riding the Meridian
and the award winning hypertext poetry site The Astrophysicist's Tango
Partner Speaks, Jennifer Ley develops her newest work in the field of
hypertext and hypermedia. Examples can be found on the web in the
April Feature and the Valentine Files at the Electronic Poetry Center, in
the web journals Cauldron and Net, frAme4, The Animist, Snakeskin, and
Conspire, and in the trAce anthology, My Millennium. Her web works
have been exhibited at Digital Arts and Culture '99, at the Wednesdays
at 4 readings series at SUNY-Buffalo, the SIGGRAPH 2000 Art Gallery,
and at digital conferences planned this year in South Africa and Eastern
Europe.
A 1998 Pushcart nominee for her text poetry, Ley has had earlier work
anthologized on the Internet at Poetry Cafe and published in a variety of
print publications. Her web work "The Birth of Detachment" has just been 'translated' into a limited edition chapbook by PaperBrain Press. She is a founding member of the Internet Literary
Editor's Fellowship -- ILEF -- and a member of the Literary Advisory
Committee for the Electronic Literature Organization. More of her web work is viewable from her online resume.
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