Biography

xtine is a media artist and educator. She is the author of Foundations of Digital Art and Design (New Riders 2013) and editor of Net Works: Case Studies in Web Art and Design (Routledge 2011). She has co-authored and co-edited other works and contributed chapters and articles to anthologies and refereed journals.

Informed by the history of conceptual art, she uses social networking, databases, search engines, blogs, and applications in combination with popular sites like Facebook, YouTube, or Mechanical Turk, to create web communities promoting interpretation and autonomy.

xtine is passionate about creating works using digital tools to translate common experiences into personal arenas for discovery. She is a Webby Honoree, has received a Terminal commission and an award from the UK Big Lottery fund.

An associate professor of Communications at CSUF, she bridges the gap between histories, theories, and production in new media education.