Dr. Carol Gigliotti, artist, ethicist educator, and animal rights advocate is presently Associate Professor of Interactive Arts at the Technical University of British Columbia (TechBC). She continues to work closely with the Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design (ACCAD) at the Ohio State University on ASTROLABE: Ethics and Virtual Technologies, a WWW site, CD-ROM and Online Journal www.cgrg.ohio-state.edu/Astrolabe, of which she is Project Director and Editor in Chief, as well as collaborating on other educationally based national projects.

She supervises doctoral candidates as an International Advisory Board Member for the CAiiA/STAR program at the University of Wales/University of Plymouth, UK. She lectures widely, most recently on "The Metaphoric Environment of Interactive Technologies" at the 2nd Annual Consciousness Reframed Conference at the Center for Advanced Inquiry in the Interactive Arts (CAiiA98) at the University of Wales, and on The Aesthetics of Virtual Environments and Our Place in Nature at the Annual College Art Association Conference 1999, Los Angeles, USA. She was a keynote speaker on "Teaching Towards the Future" at the Conference for Art and Design Education (CADE99) University of Teesside, UK in April 1999 and at the Educational New Media: Strategy Session at Banff Center for the Arts in Banff, Canada. Her most recent publications include the essay, Bridge To, Bridge From: the Arts, Education, and Technology in Leonardo Volume 31, Issue 2, 1998 and What is Consciousness For? in Digital Creativity Volume 9, Number 1, 1998 (Swets & Zeitlinger). Her essay The Ethical Life of the Digital Aesthetic is included in The Digital Dialectic: New Essays on New Media from MIT. She will have a chapter entitled Mothering the Future included in the forthcoming, Flesh Eating Technologies (Banff Center and Semiotexte).

Her background includes an undergraduate degree in Oral Interpretation/Performance Studies (B.S.S) from Northwestern University, in Evanston, Illinois, US, a Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A) from Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, Illinois, US., and a Doctorate in Art Education (Ph.D.) specializing in Interactive Technology at the Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design (ACCAD) at The Ohio State University in Columbus, OH, US. Her experience includes ten years of K-12 arts classroom teaching, and ten years at university in the arts and technology. She also served for two years as Educational and Technology Liaison at the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, OH, US. Coordinates: Carol Gigliotti, Ph.D. Associate Professor Interactive Arts Technical University of British Columbia (TechBC) 301-10334 152A Street Surrey, BC Canada V3R 7P8 Phone: 604-586-6038

gigliotti@techbc.ca