Julian Stallabrass is a writer, photographer, curator and lecturer. He is Professor of art history at the Courtauld Institute of Art, and is the author of Art Incorporated, Oxford University Press 2006 (updated edition forthcoming), Internet Art: The Online Clash Between Culture and Commerce, Tate Publishing, London 2003; Paris Pictured, Royal Academy of Arts, London 2002; High Art Lite: British Art in the 1990s, Verso, London 1999 and Gargantua: Manufactured Mass Culture, Verso, London 1996. On a senior fellowship from the Paul Mellon Foundation, he is currently researching a book about the relations between cultural and political populism. He is the co-editor of Ground Control: Technology and Utopia, Black Dog Publishing, London 1997, Occupational Hazard: Critical Writing on Recent British Art, Black Dog Publishing, London 1998, and Locus Solus: Technology, Identity and Site in Contemporary Art, Black Dog Publishing, London 1999, and Red Art: New Utopias in Data Capitalism, Leonardo Electronic Almanac,