Amy Alexander
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Amy Alexander is an artist and researcher working in audio/visual performance, interactive art and software art, working under a number of pseudonyms including VJ Übergeek and Cue P. Doll. She is Associate Professor at the Department of Visual Arts at the University of California, San Diego
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Amy Alexander is active across the digital arts, for example playing a leading role in shaping the domains of Software Art
and Live coding
. Her works have been exhibited and performed at museums, festivals, and conferences including the Whitney Museum, Transmediale, Ars Electronica, and SIGGRAPH. She has also performed in non-art venues including nightclubs and street performance.
Alexander's first widely-exhibited new media work was the net art project, The Multi-Cultural Recycler (1996/7), which was nominated for a Webby Award in 1999. She then developed the plagiarist.org website, which was known for its humorous projects related to Internet culture. Her more recent work has been in video installation and visual performance, most notably SVEN and CyberSpaceLand. She has also written texts on historical and contemporary audiovisual performance, including a chapter in the See This Sound compendium.
University of California, San Diego
The University of California, San Diego, commonly known as UCSD or UC San Diego, is a public research university located in the La Jolla neighborhood of San Diego, California, United States...
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Amy Alexander is active across the digital arts, for example playing a leading role in shaping the domains of Software Art
Software art
Software art refers to works of art where the creation of software, or concepts from software, play an important role; for example software applications which were created by artists and which were intended as artworks. As an artistic discipline software art has attained growing attention since the...
and Live coding
Live coding
Live coding is a performance practice centred upon the use of improvised interactive programming and real-time computing in creating sound and image based digital media. Live coding is particularly prevalent in computer music, combining algorithmic composition with improvisation...
. Her works have been exhibited and performed at museums, festivals, and conferences including the Whitney Museum, Transmediale, Ars Electronica, and SIGGRAPH. She has also performed in non-art venues including nightclubs and street performance.
Alexander's first widely-exhibited new media work was the net art project, The Multi-Cultural Recycler (1996/7), which was nominated for a Webby Award in 1999. She then developed the plagiarist.org website, which was known for its humorous projects related to Internet culture. Her more recent work has been in video installation and visual performance, most notably SVEN and CyberSpaceLand. She has also written texts on historical and contemporary audiovisual performance, including a chapter in the See This Sound compendium.