Alan Sondheim 			   


        Alan Sondheim is a writer, teacher, and cyberspace theorist who
comoderates three email lists, Cybermind, Fiction-of-Philosophy, and
E-conf (electronic conferencing), on the Internet. The first is devoted to
the psychology/ philosophy of cyberspace. Sections of his Internet Text
have appeared in Perforations and other publications. He has recently
edited Being On Line, Net Subjectivity, for Lusitania Press, and guest-
edited an issue of Art Papers on Future Culture. His other books include
Individuals: Post-Movement Art in America (Dutton, 1977) and Disorders of
the Real (Station Hill, 1988). His current project, the Internet Text, is
available on the World Wide Web. Sondheim has a book of art/theory essays
forthcoming from Gordon and Breach; he is also editing a special issue of
New Observations on Net Culture. A forthcoming philosophy text will be
published by Potepoet, and a work based on the Nikuko avatar will be pub-
lished by Cris Creek. Jennifer, a collection of some of his on-line texts,
was published this year by the Nominative Press Collective.

        Sondheim has published over a hundred and thirty articles, and has
lectured at a number of venues on the Internet and Information Highway. He
teaches and lectures on issues of on-line culture and community at various
venues, including Lang College at the New School for Social Research. His
film and video has been exhibited at two Whitney Biennials as well as the
Paris Biennale. Sondheim has received three residencies at the Experimen-
tal Television Center. He has been a visiting lecturer at such schools as
U.C.L.A., Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Ontario College of Art,
Concordia University, University of Texas at Dallas, and U.C. Irvine.  His
video and film have been shown internationally. 

        Sondheim has participated in numerous shows, including Crash: 
Nostalgia for the Absence of Cyberspace (Thread Waxing Space). He has
also taken part in (and occasionally run) a number of conferences on
cyberspace issues.

	In November, 1996, Sondheim was the keynote speaker at the Cyber-
mind Conference in Perth, Australia; a plenary session was devoted to his
work. In June, 1996, and January, 1997, he has been a visiting fellow /
consultant for the Community Center for Enterprise Networking in Cape Bre-
ton, Nova Scotia - an organization sponsored by the Federal Government,
concerned with networking and economic development of the entire province.

        Sondheim has an M.A. from Brown University and currently lives in
Brooklyn, New York, with cat and cacti.

	Webpages:

URL: http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/~spoons/internet_txt.html 
MIRROR: http://www.anu.edu.au/english/internet_txt/

Telephone 1-718-857-3671   Address 432 Dean Street, Brooklyn, NY, 11217
Email sondheim@panix.com, sondheim@gol.com