Articles by Jamie "Skye" Bianco

Jamie "Skye" Bianco is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Media, Culture and Communication at New York University. She is a queer, feminist and site-based digital media theorist, performer and practitioner whose multimodal work investigates ecologies of trash, toxicity, disaster, bodies and the extra-human agencies and affections produced by them. She composes and remixes still images, sound, video, animation, theory and lyrical prose in multimodal performative, web-based, computational/algorithmic and installation formats. Selected multimodal work appears in O-zone, The Petroleum Manga (Punctum, 2014) Debates in Digital Humanities (Minnesota, 2012), The Affective Turn (Duke, 2007), FibreCulture, Women’s Studies Quarterly, Comparative Literature Studies, and Rhizome, and she was selected as a local artist for the 2013 Carnegie International exhibition/catalogue. She is also Design Editor and Lead Designer for CSA’s Lateral and the co-organizer with Melissa Rogers of CSA’s inaugural makerSpace at the 2014 conference. She received a Ph.D. in women’s studies and English from the City University of New York.

Introduction: Ecologies – Trash, Toxicity, Transmission

By Jamie "Skye" Bianco

Ecologies is a new thread for Lateral and an experiment in practice-based, multi-modal and multi-venue presentation of work in cultural studies. As the Design Editor for Lateral since its inception, I have worked with many contributors and thread editors to produce conversations in web-based publishing that emerge from the membership and annual conference of the Cultural Studies Association, and while these works (all of which can be found right here on Lateral) trace back to our annual gathering, these publications essentially function outside of the conference itself.