Ted Byfield

Ted Byfield is an Assistant Professor in the School of Art, Media, and Technology Department of Parsons the New School for Design, New School University. He worked for over a decade as a freelance book editor for academic and public-interest publishers including Cambridge University Press, the Dia Center for the Arts, the New Press, Scribner/Macmillan, and Zone Books. He has served as a co-editor of ICANN Watch since 2001, as co-moderator of the Nettime mailing list since 1998, and contributed to a wide variety of conferences, among them Tulipomania DotCom (Amsterdam, 2000), blur_02 (NYC, 2002), the Next 5 Minutes 4 (Amsterdam, 2003), Library 2.0 (Yale, 2008). His writings on subjects ranging from space photography to internet governance have appeared in First Monday, Frieze, Le Monde Diplomatique, and Mute; and he has consulted for the BBC, The Kitchen, the Open Society Institute, and the Waag Society for Old and New Media, among others. Awards and honors he has received include contributing to the winner of the 1997 Rotterdam Design Prize, a 2002 Design Trust for Public Space Fellowship in Journalism, a 2003 grant from the Open Society Institute, contributor in 2003-2004 to the Social Science Research Council's Information Technology and International Cooperation workgroup, and he served as a Visiting Fellow with the Information Society Project, Yale Law School (2008-2010).[1]