Bio - Alan Sondheim

 


 

Alan Sondheim's books include the anthology Being on Line: Net Subjectivity (Lusitania, 1996), Disorders of the Real (Station Hill, 1988), .echo (alt-X digital arts, 2001), and The Wayward (forthcoming, Salt) as well as numerous other chapbooks, ebooks, and articles. His videos and films have been shown internationally. Sondheim co-moderates several email lists, including Cybermind, Cyberculture and Wryting. Since 1/94, he has been working on an "Internet Text," a continuous meditation on philosophy, psychology, language, body, and virtuality. Sondheim lives in Brooklyn; he lectures and publishes widely on contemporary art and internet issues. In 1999, Sondheim was the second virtual writer-in-residence for the trAce (sic) online writing community (Nottingham, England). In 2004, he was a five week resident of the Center for Literary Computing, and the Virtual Environments Laboratory, at West Virginia University. He is one of the editors Nettime's Unstable Digest. In 2001, Sondheim assembled a special topic for the America Book Review on Codework. His video/soundwork has often been screened at Millennium Film (NYC), as well as a number of other venues, including the Rotterdam Film Festival. Sondheim teaches in the trAce online writing program; in 2001-2 he taught new media at Florida International University in Miami. He currently works in video, cdrom, performance, sound, and text, often in collaboration with his partner Azure Carter, dancer/choreographer Foofwa d'Imobilite, and others.

 

Relevant URLS:

 

recent http://www.asondheim.org/  

WVU 2004 projects http://www.as.wvu.edu/clcold/sondheim/files/  

recent related to WVU http://www.as.wvu.edu:8000/clc/Members/sondheim

Trace projects http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/writers/sondheim/index.htm  

partial mirror at http://www.anu.edu.au/english/internet_txt

 

Sondheim may be reached at sondheim@panix.com.

 

 

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