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Current Editorial & Design Team

  • Dalena Tran, Editor

    Dalena Tran is an artist & writer. Her body of work reinterprets applications of traditional art forms and practices with emerging digital technologies through hybrid mediations. Engaging with the phenomenon of media as semiotic storytelling, she investigates the everyday confluences of language and expression; presence and immateriality; voyeurism and surveillance; urbanism and hegemony; play and pause.

  • Chandler McWilliams, Founding Editor and Editor-in-Chief

    Chandler McWilliams is an artist living and working in Los Angeles. He has studied film, photography, and political science; and completed graduate work in philosophy at The New School For Social Research in New York City. In 2013, McWilliams received an MFA in the Program in Art at the California Institute of the Arts. McWilliams has taught at schools and workshops around the world including the School of Visual Arts and The Cooper Union and has published numerous pieces for magazines, academic journals, and conferences. He is the co-author of "Form + Code in Design, Art, and Architecture" (Princeton Architectural Press, 2010). His work engages sculpture, text, and performance to cope with ideas of ethics, space, perception, and thought.

  • A.M. Darke, Editorial Board

    A.M. Darke is an artist and game maker designing radical tools for social intervention. Still in the class war. Now in the pandemic. He’s in the combination class war and pandemic. Assistant Professor of Digital Arts and New Media, and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, at UC Santa Cruz, Darke also directs The Other Lab, an interdisciplinary, intersectional feminist research space for experimental games and new media. She’s currently working on the award-nominated game ‘Ye or Nay? and the Open Source Afro Hair Library, a 3D model database for Black hair styles and textures.

  • Danny Snelson, Editorial Board

    Danny Snelson is a writer, editor, and archivist working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at UCLA. His online editorial work can be found on Jacket2, UbuWeb, PennSound, Eclipse, and the EPC. Recent books include Apocalypse Reliquary: 1984-2000 (Monoskop, 2018), Radios (Make Now, 2016), EXE TXT (Gauss PDF, 2015), and Epic Lyric Poem (Troll Thread, 2014). He is at work on a manuscript exploring online collections of art and letters entitled The Little Database: A Poetics of Formats.

  • Johanna Drucker, Editorial Board

    Johanna Drucker is Distinguished Professor and Breslauer Professor in the Department of Information Studies at UCLA. She is internationally known for her work in the history of graphic design, typography, experimental poetry, fine art, and digital humanities. A collection of her essays, What Is? (Cuneiform Press) was published in 2013 and Graphesis: Visual Forms of Knowledge Production (Harvard University Press) appeared in 2014. Digital_Humanities, with Anne Burdick, Peter Lunenfeld, Todd Presner, and Jeffrey Schnapp, (MIT Press) was published in 2012. Drucker is also known for her artist‘s books which were the subject of a traveling retrospective, Druckworks: 40 years of books and projects, in 2012-2014. In 2014 she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Recent work includes Diagrammatic Writing (Onomatopée, 2014), Fabulas Feminae (Litmus Press, 2015), The General Theory of Social Relativity, (The Elephants, 2018), and Downdrift: An Eco-fiction (Three Rooms Press, 2018). Her book Visualization and Interpretation is forthcoming from MIT Press (Fall 2020).

  • Sarah Kessler, Editorial Board

    Sarah Kessler is a media scholar and television critic. Her articles and essays have appeared in the Brooklyn Rail, Camera Obscura, Film Quarterly, In These Times, Triple Canopy, and elsewhere. Her book-in-progress, Anachronism Effects, examines the politics of voice and ventriloquism in transatlantic popular culture. Since 2018, Kessler has edited the TV section of Public Books. She is an assistant professor of English at the University of Southern California, a Philadelphian, and a whale enthusiast.

  • Leslie Foster, Editorial Board

    Leslie Foster (he/him) is a Los Angeles-based artist whose work folds experimental film into multi-sensory installations to create contemplative ecologies and pocket universes that explore Black and queer futurity through a lens of dream logic.

    Leslie's work, which has exhibited at QiPO Art Fair in Mexico City, the Torrance Art Museum, AMAX, Holland Projects, Flatline Gallery, Shoebox Projects, 4Culture Gallery, the Brea Gallery, and two LA-based solo shows, is a gentle invitation into turbulent space and the beautifully strange.

  • Romi Ron Morrison, Editorial Board

    Romi Ron Morrison is an interdisciplinary artist, researcher, and educator.  Their work investigates the personal, political, ideological, and spatial boundaries of race, ethics, and social infrastructure within digital technologies. Using maps, data, sound, performance, and video, their installations center Black diasporic technologies that challenge the demands of an increasingly quantified world—reducing land into property, people into digits, and knowledge into data. 

    Romi has exhibited work and given talks at numerous exhibitions, conferences, and workshops around the world including Transmediale (Berlin), ALT_CPH Biennial (Copenhagen), the American Institute of Architects (New York), Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago), Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin), Queens Museum (New York), and the Walker Museum of Art. They have been in residence at Eyebeam Center for Art + Technology, New York University (ITP), The Joan Mitchell Foundation, and FemTechNet. Their writing has appeared in publications by MIT Press, University of California Press, Open Humanities Press, and Logic Magazine. 

    They have taught courses at Parsons School of Design and the University of Southern California (USC). They are currently an Annenberg PhD Fellow in the School of Cinematic Arts at USC in Los Angeles.

Past Editorial & Design Team

  • Amy Fang, Lead Art Editor & Designer

    Amy Fang is a multimedia designer exploring language and its manifestations in typography, printed matter, and the web. Her practice engages with words and letterforms as imagery and as cultural markers, especially with the shift towards the increasing digitization of our visual landscapes and interpersonal communications. She is currently spending her time hand-coding small custom sites, learning how to decorate pies, and working towards completing her BA degree at UCLA's Design Media Arts program in the spring of 2021.

  • Isla Hansen, Editorial Board

    Isla Hansen is an artist working to reinterpret and complicate the relationship between the human body and technological progress. Her solo and collaborative installations, systems, and performances have been exhibited at the Akron Art Museum, the Columbus Museum of Art, MoCA Cleveland, the Hammer Museum, the Parrish Art Museum, Guild Hall Center for Visual and Performing Arts, and the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh. Isla has been the recipient of numerous grants and awards, including a Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Residency, the Dedalus Foundation Master of Fine Arts Fellowship, the American Austrian Foundation Seebacher Prize for Fine Arts, and has been the recipient of multiple Frank-Ratchye Fund for Art at the Frontier grants from The Studio for Creative Inquiry. Isla was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and received her BA from Columbia University and her MFA from Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Art. She currently lives and works in Los Angeles, where she is an Assistant Professor in Design Media Arts at UCLA.

  • Bruce Dain, Editorial Board

    Bruce Dain is an Associate Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Utah and the author of A Hideous Monster of the Mind: American Race Theory in the Early Republic (Harvard University Press).

  • Casey Reas, Editorial Board

    Casey Reas is an artist and educator. His software, prints, and installations have been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions at museums and galleries. His work ranges from small works on paper to urban-scale installations and he balances solo work in the studio with collaborations with architects and musicians. Reas' work is in a range of private and public collections, including the Centre Georges Pompidou, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Reas is a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles.

  • Jongwoo Jeremy Kim, Editorial Board

    Jongwoo Jeremy Kim is an Associate Professor of Critical Studies in the School of Art at Carnegie Mellon University, specializing in modern and contemporary art addressing issues concerning gender, sexuality, and race. He is the author of Painted Men in Britain, 1868-1918 (Ashgate). His peer-reviewed articles include “Filming the Queerness of Comfort Women: Byun Young–Joo’s The Murmuring, 1995” (positions: asia critique), and “Picturing the Edwardian Family Man: The Nicholsons at Home” (Art History). In his co-edited, interdisciplinary anthology Queer Difficulty in Art and Poetry (Routledge), Kim discusses Robert Gober and anti-patriarchal temporality. Currently, he is completing his next book, Male Bodies Unmade: Picturing Queer Selfhood, which explores narratives of subjectivity formation and corporeal incoherence in the works by Aubrey Beardsley, Jean Cocteau, Francis Bacon, Robert Gober, David Hockney, and Andrew Ahn.

  • Steve Anderson, Editorial Board

    Steve Anderson is a scholar-practitioner working at the intersection of media, history, technology and culture. He teaches classes in the production and theory of digital media in the School of Theater, Film and Television and holds a joint appointment in the department of Design Media Arts.

  • Haolin Fang, Lead UX / UI Developer / Designer

  • Marisa Ling, UX / UI Developer / Designer

  • Don Edler, Editor

    Don Edler is an artist and filmmaker born in Bremen, Germany. Don Edler is the founder and curator of ELEVATOR MONDAYS, a social exhibition space in Los Angeles that focused on experimental curation and highlighted local emerging artists circa 2017-2020. Edler lives and works in Los Angeles.

  • Vishal Jugdeo, Editorial Board

    Vishal Jugdeo is an interdisciplinary artist who works with video, installation, performance and sculpture to construct experimental approaches to narrative. Referencing tropes of television, cinema and theater, his work emphasizes the layers of mediation that influence how we understand the unfolding present. Jugdeo has exhibited widely including solo presentations at the ICA Philadelphia, MOCA LA, Commonwealth and Council, LAXART and Western Front, Vancouver. Commissioned works have been featured in Performa, New York, Made in LA at the Hammer Museum, and at the Witte De With Center for Contemporary Arts, Rotterdam.

    Jugdeo completed an MFA at UCLA, and a BFA at Simon Fraser University. He is a 2015 Guggenheim Foundation Fellow, and has received grants from Art Matters, California Community Foundation, and the Canada Council for the Arts, as well as residencies at Skowhegan, BOFFO and the MacDowell Colony. Jugdeo is assistant professor and area head of New Genres in the Department of Art at UCLA.

  • Berit Gilma, Editor

    Berit Gwendolyn Gilma is an Austrian-born new media artist, art/creative director and curator living between Berlin and Los Angeles. Working in the nexus of contemporary art, politics and new technology, she is interested in the aesthetics of secrecy and into the creation of poetic realities.

    She holds a BA degree from the University of the Arts, Berlin and is currently pursuing her MFA degree at Design Media Arts at UCLA made possible with a Fulbright scholarship.