DSL Magazine: Issue 11

Author bios 93 Michelle Proksell 媚潇 (b. 1985) – holds a Masters of Science in the Cultures of Art, Science and Technology from Maastricht University's Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. She is also an artist, researcher, and curator, having produced exhibitions and performed in North America, China, Malaysia, Australia, and Europe. As an artist she works with video, sound, performance, the Internet and her ongoing Chinternet Archive - a collection of vernacular digital artefacts from the Chinese Web. She is most interested in technology and its relationship to human behaviour and social interactions. She is the founder of Netize.net—an archive documenting art and technology in China—and in more recent years has been exploring the creative, social and phenomenological aspects of Virtual Reality. www.michelleproksell.com Gabriele de Seta 胡子哥 (b. 1986) is a media anthropologist. He holds a PhD in Sociology from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica in Taipei, Taiwan, and is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Bergen. His research work, grounded in ethnographic engagement across multiple sites, focuses on digital media practices and vernacular creativity in China. He is also interested in experimental music scenes, internet art, and collaborative intersections between anthropology and art practice. More information is available on his website http://paranom.asia