Sandy Stone

Allucquére Rosanne "Sandy" Stone (c.1936) is an American academic theorist, media theorist, author, and performance artist. She is Associate Professor and Founding Director of the Advanced Communication Technologies Laboratory (ACTLab, 1992) and the New Media Initiative in the department of Radio-TV-Film at the University of Texas at Austin. Concurrently she is Wolfgang Kohler Professor of Media and Performance at the European Graduate School EGS, senior artist at the Banff Centre, and Humanities Research Institute Fellow at the University of California, Irvine. Stone has worked in and written about film, music, experimental neurology, writing, engineering, and computer programming. Stone is transgender and is considered a founder of the academic discipline of transgender studies. (2020)

Publications

Books

• The War of Desire and Technology at the Close of the Mechanical Age, MIT Press, 1995, 212 pp, OL. Reviews: Nideffer (Soc Sci Comp R), Sci Tech Soc.
  • trans., Shinyosha, 1996. (Japanese)
  • trans., Feltrinelli, 1996. (Italian)
  • trans., Norstedts, 1997. (Swedish)
  • trans., 1997. (Chinese)

Book chapters, essays

• "Will the Real Body Please Stand Up?", in Cyberspace: First Steps, ed. Michael Benedikt, MIT Press, 1991, pp 81-118, IA. [1]
  • in Cyberspace, ed. Michael Benedikt, Tokyo, 1994, pp 84-120. (Japanese)
  • "Werde de werkliche Korper bitte ehreben?", trans. Florian Rotzer, Kunstforum 133, 1996, pp 68-83. (German)
  • "Neka stvarno tijelo ustane, molim!", in Cyberfeminizam, ed. Igor Marković, Zagreb: Centar za ženske studije, 1999, pp 99-120. (Croatian)
  • "¿Puede levantarse el cuerpo real, por favor?", in Ciberfeminismo. De VNS Matrix a Laboria Cuboniks, eds. Remedios Zafra and Teresa López-Pellisa, Madrid: Holobionte, 2019. [2] (Spanish)

• "The Empire Strikes Back: A Posttranssexual Manifesto", in Body Guards: The Cultural Politics of Sexual Ambiguity, eds. Kristina Straub and Julia Epstein, New York: Routledge, 1991, pp 280-304; repr., rev. & upd. with afterw., Camera Obscura 10:2, May 1992, pp 150-176; upd., 2014. First presented at Other Voices, Other Worlds: Questioning Gender and Ethnicity, Santa Cruz, CA, 1988.

• "The Architecture of Elsewhere", in Semiotext(e) Architecture, ed. Hrazstan Zeitlian, New York: Semiotext(e), 1992.

• "Virtual Systems", in Zone 6: "Incorporations", eds. Jonathan Crary and Sanford Kwinter, MIT Press, 1992.

• "Virtualitet og Krenkelser", in Kulturens Digitale, ed. Terje Rasmussen, Oslo: Aventura, 1993. Trans. of "Violation and Virtuality: Two Cases of Physical and Psychological Boundary Transgression and Their Implications". (Norwegian)
  • "Identity in Oshkosh", in Posthuman Bodies, eds. Judith Halberstam and Ira Livingston, Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1995, pp 23-37. Shortened version.

• "Split Subjects, Not Atoms; or, How I Fell In Love With My Prosthesis", Configurations 2(1): "Located Knowledges", ed. Roddey Reid, 1994, pp 173-190; repr. as "Sex, Death, and Architecture", Architecture New York (ANY): "Electrotecture", New York: ANY, 1994.

• "Invaginal Imaginal: How to Fill (Or Surround) Virtual Space", Lusitania 6: "Vulvamorphia", ed. Lillian Lenox, 1994.
  • "Imaginaire Invaginal: comment remplier (ou entourer) l'espace virtuel", Lusitania 6: "Vulvamorphia", ed. Lillian Lenox, 1994, pp 7-12. (French)

• with Nikhil Sinha, "Computers and Communication", in Questioning the Media: A Critical Introduction, 2nd ed., eds. John Downing, Ali Mohammadi, and Annabelle Sreberny-Mohammadi, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1995, pp 255-276.

• "Sex and Death Among the Disembodied: VR, Cyberspace, and the Nature of Academic Discourse", in Cultures of Computing, ed. Susan Leigh Star, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995, pp 242-255.

• "Neural Games: Remapping the Locus of Desire", in Press/Enter: Between Seduction and Disbelief, ed. Louise Dompierre, Toronto: The Power Plant‹Contemporary Art Gallery at Harbourfront Centre, 1995, pp 131-143.

• "Innocence and Awakening: Cyberdammerung at the Ashibe Research Lab", in Immersed In Technology: Art and Virtual Environments, eds. Marianne Moser and Douglas MacLeod, MIT Press, 1996.

• "Der Blick des Vampires: Unter den Untoten am Beginn des virtuellen Zeitalers", trans. Gender et alia, in The Body of Gender. Korper/ Geschkchter/Identitaten, ed. Marie-Louise Angerer, Berlin: Passagen, 1996, pp 187-202. (German)

• "Cyberdammerung at Wellspring Systems", in Immersed in Technology: Art and Virtual Environments, eds. Mary Ann Moser with Douglas MacLeod, MIT Press, 1996, pp 103-117.

• "Welcome to the Present", in Electronic Culture: Technology and Visual Representation, ed. Timothy Druckrey, New York: Aperture, 1996, pp 6-10.

• "Overhearing Our Own Voices", in Interface 3. Labile Ordnungen. Netze denken, Kunst verkehren, Verbindlichkeiten, ed. Klaus Peter Dencker, Hamburg: Hans-Bredow-Institut, 1997, pp 256-261.

Interviews

• Davina Anne Gabriel, "Interview With the Transsexual Vampire: Sandy Stone's Dark Gift" [Jan 1995], TransSisters: The Journal of Transsexual Feminism 8, Spring 1995, pp 14-27, HTML (with commentary). Full issue PDF.

• "Speaking Of The Medium: Marshall McLuhan Interviews Allucquere Rosanne Stone", in Orlan: This Is My Body, This Is My Software, ed. Duncan McCorquodale, London: Black Dog, 1996, pp 42-51.

Links

• Personal website
• CV
• Wikipedia