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Marsha Kinder is an Emerita University Professor of Critical Studies at University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts and the author of many books, including Playing with Power and Blood Cinema. Since 1997, she has directed The Labyrinth Project, an art collective and research initiative on database narrative, which has produced twelve interactive projects (DVDs, websites, and installations). Her latest online project is interactingwithautism.com. She is also a longtime member of the Editorial Board of Film Quarterly and is currently working on a book titled Database Narrative in the Light of Neuroscience. Tara McPherson is Associate Professor at the University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts; author of the Cawelti Award winning Reconstructing Dixie; editor of Digital Youth, Innovation, and the Unexpected; coeditor of Hop on Pop: The Politics and Pleasures of Popular Culture; a founding editor of both the International Journal of Learning and Media and of the online media journal Vectors. She is the Lead Investigator of the Alliance for Networking Visual Culture and is completing Designing for Difference, based upon ten years of digital production collaborations. |
