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Frances Dyson (PhD)
-- Biography, 2004

Dr. Frances Dyson is a writer, media artist, and associate professor of Techno-Cultural Studies at the University of California at Davis. Her writing has been published nationally and internationally, with book chapters in Catherine Richards - Excitable Tissues (Ottawa Art Gallery) 2003; Uncertain Ground (Sydney: Art Gallery of New South Wales) 2000, The Virtual Dimension: Architecture, Representation, and Crash Culture (New York: Princeton Architectural Press) 1998, and Immersed in Technology (Massachusetts: MIT Press) 1996. She was recently awarded a Researcher in Residence from the Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science and Technology (Montreal) for 2004-5. Dyson has exhibited installation/performance works in the US, Canada, Japan and Australia, and for over a decade has been a regular contributor to Australia's premier audio arts program, The Listening Room (Australian Broadcasting Corporation), where she recently completed Fur and Sheen,an experimental fictional series based in the near future. She currently serves on the board of Davis Community Television and is active in community media projects.