Natalie Bookchin is an artist who has been working on online projects since 1997. She recently collaborated with political theorist Jackie Stevens on a website, agoraXchange, an online collaboration for imagining and building a massive multiplayer online game offering a political alternative to our current world order. The first version of the site was commissioned by the Tate Online, and launched in March 2004. She received a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship to complete a second version of the website, scheduled to launch in October 2004. She is working with Robert Bullock on a documentary video on the life and work of the social theorist, left-libertarian writer and activist, Murray Bookchin. Metapet completed in 2003 was an online game commissioned by Creative Time, a public arts presenter in New York City, in association with HAMACA, a Barcelona based net art platform. The beta version of Metapet was launched at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles; Version 1 was launched on May Day, 2003 and linked from the Whitney Museum's online gallery. In 1999-2000 Bookchin organized <net.net.net>, an eight month series of lectures and workshops on art, activism and the Internet at Cal Arts, MOCA in LA, and Laboratorio Cinematek in Tijuana. From 1998 to 2000 she was a member of the collective ®TMark. She was a 2001-2002 Guggenheim Fellow. Her work is exhibited at institutions including PS1, Mass MOCA, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Barcelona, KunstWerke, Berlin, the Generali Foundation, Vienna, the Walker Art Center, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Shedhale in Zurich. She is based in Los Angeles and is a faculty member at CalArts.
Jacqueline Stevens is the author of Reproducing the State (Princeton University Press, 1999). Her work has appeared in Political Theory, the American Political Science Review, the Journal of Political Philosophy, Social Text, and many other publications. She is currently working on two further manuscripts: States without Nations (the theoretical basis of agoraXchange), and The Human Being Project. In 1997-1999 she was a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Scholar at Yale University. She developed the ideas for this project while at Istanbul Bilgi University (2002-2004) and is presently also on the faculty at the University of California at Santa Barbara.
natalie@action-tank.org
jstevens@lawso.ucsb.edu
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