Simon Penny has been involved in the world of digital art and culture for 25 years, and active in the development of interdisciplinary approaches to practice, discourse and pedagogy. Along with his art practice and writing, he edited an early 'new media reader' (Critical Issues in Electronic Media, SUNY Press 1995), and organized an early exhibition of interactive installation (Machine Culture, SIGGRAPH'93). More recently he designed and established the Arts Computation Engineering graduate program at UCI. Further details of his work can be found at www.ace.uci.edu/penny.