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Department of English > On the Run Lecture Series - Fall 2004 > Biographies

*Kass Fleisher is the author of a creative nonfiction work, The Bear River Massacre and the Making of History (SUNY Press, 2004); and an experimental prose work, Accidental Species: A Reproduction (forthcoming from Chax Press in 2005). Her work has appeared in The Iowa Review, Bombay Gin, Postmodern Culture, Z Magazine, American Book Review, electronic book review, and other journals, and her fiction has been awarded annual prizes from The Dickinson Review and Plainswoman. Her screenplays (with Joe Amato), BEAR RIVER and GOOD FENCES, achieved semi-final status in the Chesterfield Writer's Film Project fellowship competition (Paramount Pictures) in 2003. She is an Assistant Professor of English at Illinois State University, in Normal, where she lives with her partner and collaborator, the poet Joe Amato.

*Paul D. Miller is a conceptual artist, writer, and musician working in NYC, and is most well known under the moniker of his "constructed persona" as "Dj Spooky that Subliminal Kid." Miller has recorded a huge volume of music as "Dj Spooky that Subliminal Kid" and has collaborated a wide variety of pre-eminent musicians and composers such as Iannis Xenakis, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Butch Morris, Kool Keith a.k.a. Doctor Octagon, Killa Priest from Wu-Tang Clan, Yoko Ono and Thurston Moore from Sonic Youth amongst many others. He also did the music score for the Cannes and Sundance award winning film "Slam" starring critically acclaimed poet Saul Williams. His written work has appeared in The Village Voice, The Source, Artforum, Raygun, Rap Pages, Paper Magazine, and a host of other periodicals.

<www.djspooky.com> for more information.

Rhythm Science will be a "live" multi-media presentation of the history of digital art and media from the viewpoint of an artist who uses "found objects" like a dj - i.e.  it's a subjective selection where old video material will be remixed and combined with new... history itself will be the material for the mix, and the lecture presentation will focus on how dj culture has evolved out of the same technologies that are used for digital media and art.

*Anthony Elms has a B.F.A. in painting from Michigan State University and an
M.F.A. from the University of Chicago. In 1996, he assumed the position of Managing
Editor of WhiteWalls, a not-for-profit, artist-run cultural journal and book publisher. His written work has appeared in the Chicago Art Journal, New Art Examiner, Coterie, Art Asia Pacific, and www.interreview.org.  He has written exhibition essays for the Hyde Park Art Center the Gahlberg Gallery of the College of DuPage, and Betty Rymer Gallery at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His paintings, drawings and text pieces have been exhibited at Randolph Street Gallery, Artemisia, Gallery 312, Gallery 400, Temporary Services, the Contemporary Arts Workshop, and the Hyde Park Art Center, all Chicago; Boom, in Oak Park; and Artists Space, New York.

*Steve Tomasula is a critic and author whose short fiction has appeared widely and most recently in McSweeney's, Fiction International, and The Iowa Review where he received the Iowa Prize for the most distinguished work in any genre. His essays on body art and culture appear in Leonardo (M.I.T. Press) and other magazines both here and in Europe. He is the author of the novels IN & OZ (Ministry of Whimsy Press, 2003) and VAS: An Opera in Flatland (Station Hill Press, 2003/ University of Chicago Press, 2004).  He teaches in the program for writers at the University of Notre Dame.