Gabriella Giannachi in Second Life and in Blast Theory's Day of the Figurines

Associate Professor in Performance and New Media, University of Exeter. Her research focuses on new media art and performance, performativity and biotechnology, genomics and globalization, virtual, augmented and mixed reality and the information society. She is currently developing a number of projects in collaboration with artists and computer scientists from Europe and the US.

Her principal publications include:

• On Directing, co-edited with Mary Luckhurst (Faber and Faber, 1999)
• Staging the Post-Avant-Garde, co-authored with Nick Kaye (Peter Lang, 2002)
• Virtual Theatres: an Introduction (Routledge, 2004)
• Performing Nature: Explorations in Ecology and the Arts, co-edited with Nigel Stewart (Peter Lang, 2005)
• ‘Exposing Globalisation: Biopolitics in the Work of Critical Art Ensemble’, Contemporary Theatre Review, 2006, 16:1: 41-50.
• The Politics of New Media Theatre: Life®™ (Routledge, 2006)
• with Matt Adams and Steve Benford, ‘Pervasive Presence: Blast Theory’s Day of the Figurines’, forthcoming Contemporary Theatre Review.
• with Steve Benford, 'Episodic Encounter in Blast Theory's Day of the Figurines', forthcoming.

She is Co-Director of the Centre for Intermedia, University of Exeter and co-Director of Information Society Network (ISN).

Gabriella Giannachi's website is at [link]