Amy Alexander
Professor @ UC San Diego
Amy Alexander (US) creates computational artwork which spans installation, performance, and online media. With background in film, music, and expanded cinema, she was one of the early artists working in the development of generative net art beginning in the mid-1990s. In addition to her work under her own name, she has developed tactical media projects as Cue P. Doll and performed nightclub visuals as VJ Übergeek. She was a co-founder and longtime moderator of the software art repository runme.org and an early member of the TOPLAP live coding collective. Amy is the developer/maintainer of The Mary Hallock Greenewalt Visibility Project, an online database dedicated to making the early 20th century inventor’s physical archive materials available online to researchers worldwide. Amy has written and lectured on software as culture, audiovisual performance, algorithmic bias, and media preservation. She is a Professor of Computing in the Arts at University of California, San Diego.
Amy’s projects have been performed and exhibited at venues including the Whitney Museum, Prix Ars Electronica, Transmediale, SIGGRAPH, NIME, CURRENTS, International Conference on Live Coding, and the New Museum as well as nightclub performances at venues including Sonar and Minneapolis’s First Avenue. She has also performed on the streets of Los Angeles, San Diego, San Jose, Zürich, and Aberdeen, Scotland.