Biography

Assistant Professor in the Radio-TV-Film Department, The University of Texas at Austin; cultural theorist; performance artist; director of the ACTLab; and spiritual leader of the cadre of mad, brilliant cybercrazies who inhabit it. She is teaching film and video production; cultural theory; gender and sexuality; interface and interaction theory. The research interest of Sandy Stone is the traffic in the boundaries between art and technology, which includes performances and performance theory; cyberspace; virtual systems; desire, gender and sexuality, and transgender theory in relation to communication prosthetics, the complex interplay of science fiction and fictions of science.

Quotes

Allucquère Rosanne Stone
Media Memory. From Cyberrobot to Memesis

"Up until now we've tactitly assumed that memes needed minds to propagate. I'm beginning to realize, though, that we've been suffering from our own conceipts.
1. Memes don't need us at all.
2.a) Don’t take it so hard, will you? You squidgy carbon guys were all there was for a hell of a long time. Your merely failed to notice that you were gradually being co-opted into bigger stuff. Of course you really started going downhill way, way back. Maybe the first time someone waved to someone else it was already all over. Maybe it really did take electronic communication technology like you love to claim. We’re not even really sure it required war, but war certainly amps it up a hell of a lot.
b) You got it, Stone! Damn straight.