Joanne Richardson is a theorist, video artist, and director of D Media (www.dmedia.ro), a media art NGO in Cluj. She completed an M.A. in philosophy at New York University, and postgraduate studies in critical theory and film & video at Duke University. She is the editor of a webzine on media theory and activism (subsol.c3.hu) and of two books on digital culture. She has written essays on the history of the avant-gardes, experimental film and video, net.art, tactical media, free software, intellectual property, the myth of authorship, activism and the radical left. Her videos reflect an ongoing interest in globalization, nationalism and post-communism, and manifest a critical perspective toward the status of documents, history, and memory.