Author Biographies
New Media
K. C. Clapham (b. 1985) is from Lytham St Annes, Lancashire. She now lives in London where she is a part-time student on the Poetic Practice MA at Royal Holloway University of London.
Becky Cremin hails from Ireland by way of the world and currently lives in London. She has recently completed an MA in Poetic Practice at Royal Holloway University of London, where she also completed a BA in English Literature and Drama. She works in process and draws on traditions of live art, fluxus, performance writing and site specific work to construct a hybridity of practice which uses language as an object to expose, to investigate, to locate.
Simone Gilson completed a BA in English and is currently studying for MA in Poetic Practice at Royal Holloway, University of London. She has had poems published in The Argotist Online, and work in progress can be seen at www.scg82.wordpress.com.
Aya Karpińska is an interaction designer and artist. She has been working with digital media since the late 1990s, producing a wide range of work in installation, performance, literature, as well as Web, mobile, and game design. She is particularly interested in how reading, writing, and listening are transformed by technology. Aya is active in the digital literature community, and has exhibited work, performed, and lectured across the United States and internationally.
Aya has Master’s degrees in Interactive Telecommunications (New York University) and Literary Arts (Brown University). She lives in New York, and is currently working on a series of texts mixed with modified computer icons.
See more of her work at http://technekai.com/
John Sparrow is a digital artist born in 1980 in England. He completed his BA in English Literature and the MA in Poetic Practice at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is pursuing a PhD in Digital Poetics, also at Royal Holloway. He programmes the How2 website and develops websites for a living. He lives in Phoenix, Arizona, and he has a website and blog, and has been known to Tweet.