Allucquere Rosanne (Sandy) Stone
Allucquere Rosanne (Sandy) Stone is Associate Professor and Director of the Advanced Communication Technologies Laboratory (ACTLab) in the department of Radio-TV-Film at the University of Texas at Austin, where she studies issues related to interface, interaction, and desire. During 1998 she is Senior Resident Artist at the Banff Centre for the Arts and Resident Fellow at the Humanities Research Institute, University of California, Irvine. She has been a visiting lecturer in the departments of Communication and Sociology at the University of California San Diego, where she taught film, linguistics, gender, cultural studies, and feminist theory. She has conducted research on the neurological basis of vision and hearing for National Institutes of Health; was a member of the Bell Telephone Laboratories Special Systems Exploratory Development Group; has been a consultant, computer programmer, technical writer and engineering manager in Silicon Valley; and worked with Jimi Hendrix in music recording. She was invited to Sundance Institute in 1986. She produces the Monterey Symphony radio broadcast series. She is director of the Group for the Study of Virtual Systems at the Center for Cultural Studies, UC Santa Cruz, was program chair and organizer for the 1991 Second International Conference on Cyberspace, member of the program committee for the Third International Conference on Cyberspace in 1993, and director of the subsequent Conferences on Cyberspace up to and including the present ones. Her academic publications include "Will The Real Body Please Stand Up?: Boundary Stories About Virtual Cultures", in Michael Benedikt, ed.: "Cyberspace: First Steps" (MIT Press); "Sex, Death, and Architecture", in Architecture- New York (ANY); "Virtual Systems", in Jonathan Crary and Sanford Kwinter, eds.: "ZONE 6: Incorporations" (MIT); "The Architecture of Elsewhere", in Hraszthan Zeitlian (ed.), "Semiotext(e) Architecture"; and "The Empire Strikes Back: A Posttranssexual Manifesto", in Kristina Straub and Julia Epstein, eds.: "Body Guards: The Cultural Politics of Sexual Ambiguity" (Routledge), recently reprinted in Camera Obscura 29 and in many other publications.. Her book "The War of Desire and Technology at the Close of the Mechanical Age" was published by MIT Press in September 1995 (hardcover) and September 1996 (paperback), and is currently available in English, Italian, Japanese, Swedish, and Chinese. Her work has appeared in such publications as Lusitania, ANY (Architecture New York), and Assemblage. Her experiments with theory as performance are well known, and she is currently touring a one-person "theoryperformance" on technology, body, and desire.
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