On Radiation Burn

Steve Kurtz is Professor of Visual Studies at SUNY Buffalo. He holds a PhD in Interdisciplinary Humanities and is a founding member of the art and theory group Critical Art Ensemble (CAE). CAE is a collective of five tactical media practitioners of various specializations, who focus on the exploration of the intersections between art, critical theory, technology, and political activism. The collective has performed and produced a wide variety of projects for an international audience at diverse venues ranging from the street, to the museum, to the Internet. CAE has also written five books, their most recent being Marching Plague (Autonomedia, 2006).

Jonathan Crisman is editor for Thresholds, Journal of the MIT Department of Architecture, and has written for the Los Angeles Review of Books and PLAT Journal of the Rice School of Architecture. He has a background in architecture, geography, and urban planning from UCLA and MIT, and is executive director for 58-12 Design Lab, a Los Angeles-based non-profit organization.