Independent curator, writer, and editor. Has taught in graduate programmes at the International Center of Photography, the School of Visual Arts, and the Center of Creative Imaging in NY. Lectures internationally about the social impact of electronic media, the transformation of representation, and communication in interactive and networked environments. His books include: Culture on the Brink: Ideologies of Technology, Iterations: The New Image, Electronic Culture: Technology and Visual Representation (Aperture), collecting essays on the social impact of digital technology. He is Series Editor for Electronic Culture: History, Theory, Practice published by MIT Press that includes Ars Electronica: Facing the Future, net_condition: art and global media, Dark Fiber (by Geert Lovink), and Future Cinema: the Cinematic Imaginary after Film (edited by Jeffrey Shaw and Peter Weibel) and The Un-archaeology of the Media (by Siegfreid Zielinski).