Joanne McNeil
Joanne McNeil is the author of the novel Wrong Way (2023) and Lurking (2020). She was the inaugural winner of the Carl & Marilynn Thoma Art Foundation's Arts Writing Award for an emerging writer. She has been a resident at Eyebeam, a Logan Nonfiction Program fellow, recipient of the Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant, and an instructor at the School for Poetic Computation. She grew up in Brockton, MA and is currently based in Los Angeles.
Her freelance writing often focuses on the protocols, standards, and history of the networks, services, and infrastructure like the web and email. Recent features include "The Rise and Fall of AOL" for The Nation, "Silicon Everywhere" for The Reboot, and a look at art-making with “radically small language models” for her column in Filmmaker Magazine.
She's currently working on another nonfiction book, Too Early for the Future, on the practice and history of speculating on the future. (2025)
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