Joanne Richardson
Born 1968 in Bucharest, grew up in New York. Subsol, organiser, networker and writer, based in Cluj. Ex-philosopher, media theorist and freelance organizer. US citizen since 1983. She has an MA in political philosophy from New York University, and earned a Ph.D. at the Literature Program at Duke University. Her thesis, "Specters of Misarchism," theorizes the intersections between avant-garde art, bureaucratic organization, and the State-form, focusing on Dada, Situationism, and Neue Slowenische Kunst. Co-organizer with Multimedia Institute in Croatia of ASU2 (Art Servers /Streamers /Spaces Unlimited) and Reality Check for Cyber Utopias. Currently living in Cluj, coordinating a media production & education program which includes net.radio, video production and a local Indymedia chapter. Editor of subsol webzine and author of essays on new media culture and politics. Member of D Media. Lives in Berlin.
Articles
- Memoirs of a Video Activist. 2006. http://subsol.c3.hu/subsol_2/contributors3/richardsontext3.html