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If you're interested, read my bio below. Sorry about the length. I've been interested in film theory since the early 1980s. Together with Basjan van Stam, as the Dutch theory collective Bilwet (Adilkno in English) in 1985 we published The Empire of Images, a mass-psycho-semio-schizo reading of Paris, Texas, The Day After and The Right Stuff. Unfortunately this book is only available in Dutch. It's a wild theory book, written under the spill of the early eighties Cold War nuclear missile crisis. It also contains a mix of general traffic theory and earlish media theory. Since then Adilkno has published occasional film analyses. I rent lots of films in the local video store, here in Sydney, so I am sort of up to date with what's going on. I also see lots of crap films in planes which I usually do not watch with much interest. The high level of intellectual commitment within film theory has been a great inspiration for me to demand--and practice--a sophistic theory of new media and the Internet, my current field of study/practice. Ciao, Geert --- Geert Lovink (1959, Amsterdam), media theorist, net critic and activist, based in Sydney, studied political science on the University of Amsterdam (MA) and will hold a PhD at University of Melbourne (early 2003). He is member of Adilkno, the Foundation for the Advancement of Illegal Knowledge, a free association of media-related intellectuals established in 1983 (Agentur Bilwet auf Deutsch). From Adilkno the following books appeared: 'Empire of Images' (1985), 'Cracking the Movement' (1990) on the squatter movement and the media, 'Listen or Die' (1992) on free radio, the collected theoretical work 'The Media Archive' (1992 - translated into German, English, Croatian and Slovenian), the collection of essays 'The Datadandy' (1994 - in German) and the book/CD 'Electronic Solitude' (1997). Most of the texts of Adilkno in Dutch, German and English can be found at http://thing.desk.nl/bilwet. He is a former editor of the media art magazine Mediamatic (1989-94) and has been teaching and lecturing media theory throughout Central and Eastern Europe. He is a co-founder of the Amsterdam-based free community network 'Digital City' (http://www.dds.nl) and the support campaign for independent media in South-East Europe "Press Now" http://www.dds.nl/pressnow. He was the co-organizer of conferences such as Wetware (1991), Next Five Minutes 1-3 (93-96-99) http://www.n5m.org, Metaforum 1-3 (Budapest 94-96) http://www.mrf.hu, Ars Electronica (Linz, 1996/98) http://www.aec.at and Interface 3 (Hamburg 95). In 1995, together with Pit Schultz, he founded the international 'nettime' circle http://www.nettime.org which is both a mailinglist (in English, Dutch, French, Spanish/Portuguese, Romanian and Chinese), a series of meetings and publications such as zkp 1-4, 'Netzkritik' (ID-Archiv, 1997, in German) and 'Readme!' (Autonomedia, 1998). From 1996-1999 he was based at De Waag, the Society for Old and New Media (http://www.waag.org) where he was responsible for public research. Since 1996, once a year he has been coordinating a project and teaching at the IMI mediaschool in Osaka/Japan http://www.iminet.ac.jp. A series of temporary media labs was started in 1997 at the arts exhibition Documenta X in Kassel/Germany called Hybrid Workspace (for archive see http://www.medialounge.net which continued in Manchester (1998) and Helsinki, in the contemporary arts museum Kiasma (http://temp.kiasma.fi). A recent conference he organized was Tulipomania Dotcom conference, which took place in Amsterdam, June 2000, focussing on a critique of the New Economy www.balie.nl/tulipomania. In early 2001 he co-founded www.fibreculture.org, a forum for Australian Internet research and culture which has its first publication out, launched at the first fibreculture meeting in Melbourne (December 2001). Since 2000 he is a consultant/editor to the exchange program of Waag Society (Amsterdam) and Sarai New Media Centre (Dehli). His latest conference he co-organized is Dark Markets on new media and democracy in times of crisis (Vienna, October 2002, http://darkmarkets.t0.or.at/). Two books document his collaboration with the Dutch designer Mieke Gerritzen which he co-edited: Everyone is a Designer (BIS, 2000) and Catalogue of Strategies (Gingko Press, 2001). Together with Mieke Gerritzen in 1998 he co-founded the Browserday events (www.browserday.com), a competition for new media design students. In 2002 The MIT Press will publish two of his titles: "Dark Fiber", a collection of esssays on Internet culture and "Uncanny Networks", collected interviews with media theorists and artists. Online text archives: www.desk.org/bilwet and www.laudanum.net/geert.