Contributors

K. D. is an author of mystery novels.  

Werner Dafeldecker (born 1964, Vienna, Austria); lives and works in Berlin) draws on myriad influences—among them, European modern music, improvisation, graphic notation, Fluxus, minimalist and electroacoustic music, jazz, and field recordings—to investigate architecture, physics, photography, and film as audible experiences. The study of sound and structure are the center of his work as a composer, particularly as they relate to the technological development of electronic recording formats. Website

Kieran Daly is a writer and musician from Florida. Their recent publications include BGM MNAR (Futow) and 7 Closet Dramas (Gauss PDF). Past performances have been hosted by the Poetry Project, the Segue Reading Series, Poets Theater at SPT, and the Museum of Modern Art. Website

Dana Dart-McLean  

Rana Dasgupta is a British novelist and essayist. He is the author of the novels Tokyo Cancelled (2005) and Solo (2009), which won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, as well as Capital (2014), a nonfiction account of the stupendous changes engulfing the city of Delhi as a result of globalization, which won the Ryszard Kapuscinski Award and the Prix Emile Guimet. Dasgupta’s essays and articles have appeared in Harper’s, Granta, New Statesman, Prospect, the Paris Review, the Guardian, and the New York Times, and his books have been translated into twenty-one languages. Dasgupta’s forthcoming book, After Nations (Viking, 2023), considers the future of global political organization.  

Gary Dauphin is a Los Angeles–based writer and editor whose work has appeared in Artforum, Bidoun, Essence, Interview, Lacanian Ink, TheRoot.com, Vibe, and the Village Voice, among other publications.  

Nancy Davenport is an artist living in New York. Her work has been shown at a number of galleries and museums including Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, NY, the Liverpool Biennial, Sao Paulo Biennial. She recently opened a permanent installation at the Military History Museum in Dresden. Website

Moyra Davey is an artist and photographer. She lives and works in New York City. Website

Michael Davidson is a poet and professor emeritus of literature at the University of California, San Diego. He has written numerous books of poetry, the most recent of which is Bleed Through: New and Selected Poems (Coffee House Press, 2013). His works of criticism include Guys Like Us: Citing Masculinity in Cold War Poetics (University of Chicago Press, 2003), Concerto for the Left Hand: Disability and the Defamiliar Body (University of Michigan Press, 2008), and, most recently, Invalid Modernism: Disability and the Missing Body of the Aesthetic (Oxford University Press, 2019) .  

Adam Davies is a photographer whose work explores the edges of American urban and rural landscapes. He recently completed residencies at Yaddo and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts, and is currently a resident at the Chinati Foundation in Marfa, Texas. He was born in the United Kingdom. Website

Clare Davies studies art history at the Institute of Fine Arts and divides her time between Cairo and New York. Website

Helga Davis starred in the 25th anniversary international tour of Robert Wilson’s Einstein on the Beach; Wilson’s The Temptation of St. Anthony, with libretto and score by Bernice Johnson Reagon, of Sweet Honey in the Rock; Milton, by Katie Pearl and Lisa Damour; Elsewhere, with cellist Maya Beiser, with music by Missy Mazolli; and The Blue Planet, a multimedia theater piece written by Peter Greenaway and directed by Saskia Boddeke. She is the recipient of the BRIC Fireworks grant and completed her first full-length theater piece, Cassandra. Davis may also be heard on the new VIA Records release, Oceanic Verses, a multimedia opera work written for her by composer Paola Prestini. In Fall 2015, Davis performed in her fifth Next Wave festival at BAM, in Shara Worden (My Brightest Diamond) and Andrew Ondrejcak’s You Usa We All. She hosts a podcast, HELGA, on WQXR’s Q2, and was awarded an ASCAP Multimedia Award for hosting 24:33: twenty-four hours and thirty-three minutes of the playful and playable John Cage.  

Lydia Davis is the author of one novel and seven collections of short stories. Her translations include Proust’s Swann’s Way and Flaubert’s Madame Bovary. She is a recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and the winner of the 2013 Mann Booker International Prize. She is currently a professor and writer-in-residence at SUNY Albany.  

Arias Abbruzzi Davis is an artist studying at Columbia University. She is a former editorial and production assistant for Triple Canopy. Website

Tim Davis lives in Tivoli, New York, and teaches photography at Bard and Yale. He is the author of four books of photographs and two books of poems. His work is in the collections of the Guggenheim, Metropolitan, Whitney, Hirshhorn, Walker, High, and many other public institutions. Website

Abha Dawesar is a novelist and artist, the author of Family Values, That Summer in Paris and Babyji. Website

Dawuna is the alias of Ian Mugerwa Byenkya, a musician raised in Kenya and Virginia and now living in New York City. Dawuna’s first album, Glass Lit Dream (2020), was recorded in Mugerwa Byenkya’s apartment and self-released; after circulating online and being lauded by fans and critics, the record was remastered and rereleased by the London label O___o? to great acclaim. Dawuna has performed at Blank Forms, the Noguchi Museum, Performance Space New York, and Printed Matter, among other venues. Website

Geeta Dayal is an arts critic and journalist specializing in twentieth-century music, culture, and technology. She is the author of Another Green World, a book on Brian Eno (Bloomsbury, 2009), and is currently at work on a book on music.  

Aliana de la Guardia is a Cuban-American soprano vocalist, actor, educator, and producer. She is a co-founding artist and artistic director of Guerilla Opera, and has presented forty world premieres of operas. She has collaborated with American Lyric Theater, Beth Morrison Projects, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Dinosaur Annex, Enigma Chamber Opera, Ludovico Ensemble, Monadnock Music, New Gallery Concert Series, the PARMA Festival, Transient Canvas, and Winsor Music, among others. As a recording artist, she has been featured on Navona Records, Ravello Records, and BMOP Sound. Website

Sergio De La Pava is a public defender in New York City and author of the novels A Naked Singularity and Personae. Website

Constance DeJong is an artist, writer, and performer, who produces fiction, language- and image-based work for performance and theater, audio and video installations. She has permanent audio installations in Beacon, NY; London; and Seattle. DeJong has twice collaborated with Tony Oursler on live performances; was a collaborator on Super Vision, with The Builders Association & dbox (2005); librettist for the opera Satyagraha, with composer Philip Glass (1979). Her first book, Modern Love, was reissued by Primary Information and Ugly Duckling Presse in 2017. A series of audio works consisting of modified vintage radios programmed to play spoken word performances of new texts (2016–18) was exhibited at Art Basel, 601 Gallery, and the McEvoy Foundation for the Arts. The multi-part work NightWriters includes a digital project published in Triple Canopy, as well as drawings and audio works exhibited at Bureau Gallery (2018).  

Samuel Delany is the author of science-fiction novels including Dhalgren and Babel-17.  

Alex Delinois  

Agnes Denes is a a pioneer of environmental art. She emerged as a leading conceptual artist in the 1960s and 70s, when she became known for large-scale, site-specific works devoted to sociopolitical and ecological concerns. Her works are in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art and many other major institutions worldwide.  

Jen DeNike  

Lynnée Denise is an artist, scholar, and producer whose work reflects on underground cultural movements, the 1980s, migration studies, theories of escape, and electronic music of the African diaspora. Denise understands DJing as a research method and strategy for employing music to foster public dialogue; she coined the phrase “DJ scholarship” to shift the role of the DJ from a party purveyor to an archivist and cultural custodian of music with critical value. Her writing has been published by the Los Angeles Review of Books, the Black Scholar Journal, the Journal of Popular Music Studies, and in anthologies including Women Who Rock and Outside the XY: Queer, Black, and Brown Masculinity. She has produced conferences on Michael Jackson with the New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, on Prince with the Los Angeles Public Library, and on Aretha Franklin with UCLA’s Department of African-American Studies.  

Lisa Dent is an advocate for cultural workers and living artists. Her background includes work in film, theater and the visual arts as a curator, gallerist, writer, production designer and creative producer. Dent was most recently the director of resources & award programs at Creative Capital, leading the financial and advisory services programs and advising awardees regarding the full realization of their projects, providing strategic insight and connecting them to a wide range of internal and external resources. Previously, Dent served as the associate curator of contemporary art at the Columbus Museum of Art in Ohio, held curatorial staff positions at the New Museum of Contemporary Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art, and was a director at Friedrich Petzel Gallery in New York. From 2004-08, Dent owned and managed Lisa Dent Gallery in San Francisco, where she presented the work of emerging and mid-career international artists. Dent received her BFA from Howard University, her MFA from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, and completed the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program in curatorial studies. She has served on several juries and committees and is currently a board member Triple Canopy.  

Descriptive Video Service is an American company that produces video description, which makes visual media, such as television programs and films more accessible to people who are visually impaired. Website

Helen DeWitt is author of The Last Samurai (2000) and, with Ilya Gridneff, coauthor of Your Name Here (2007). Website

Dignity Sister is an anonymous hobby artist based in Paris Berlin New York. Website

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Peter Dittmer is a multimedia artist who produces audio and video performances as well as sound objects and sound installations. He lives and works in Berlin.  

Katrina Dodson is a translator and writer. She is the translator of Clarice Lispector’s The Complete Stories (New Directions, 2015), which won the PEN Translation Prize. Her translation of Mário de Andrade Brazilian modernist classic, Macunaíma: The Hero with No Character (1928) will be published by New Directions in 2023. Her writing has appeared in the Paris Review, the Believer, McSweeney’s, and elsewhere. Dodson holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of California, Berkeley, and teaches translation at Columbia University.  

Kate Dollenmayer  

Sandra Doller is founder and editor of 1913 a journal of forms and author of Chora and Oriflamme. Website

Jeff Dolven is the author of Scenes of Instruction (2007) and Speculative Music (2013). He teaches (mostly) Renaissance poetry and poetics at Princeton, and is an editor at large at Cabinet magazine.  

Donis is a Dominican-American DJ born and raised in Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY. Their DJ sets play with the rhythmic relationships between dance music of New York, Chicago, Detroit, New Jersey, and Baltimore, as well as music born out of the African diaspora.  

Ganavya Doraiswamy is a vocalist who was born in New York City and raised in Tamil Nadu, India. Trained as an improviser, scholar, dancer, and multi-instrumentalist, she maintains a library of “spi/ritual” blueprints, offered to her by an intergenerational constellation of collaborators, that anchors her practice in pasts, presents, and futures. She spent much of her childhood on the pilgrimage trail, learning the storytelling art form of harikathā and singing poetry that critiques hierarchical social structures. She is a cofounder of the nonhierarchical We Have Voice Collective. She has graduate degrees in contemporary performance from Berklee College of Music; ethnomusicology from UCLA; and creative practice and critical inquiry from Harvard University. She has recently composed and sung for films, durational performances, operas, and installations. Website

Manal Al Dowayan was born and raised in Saudi Arabia and works out of her hometown, Dhahran. Her artworks are part of the permanent collections of the British Museum, the Jordanian National Museum of Fine Art, the Abdullatif Jamil Foundation, and the Delfina Foundation. Website

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Thomas Drake is a former senior executive of the National Security Agency (NSA) and whistleblower indicted under the Espionage Act. The charges were eventually dropped.  

Dreamcrusher is a moniker of the New York City-based musician and artist Luwayne Glass, who describes the project as “nihilist queer revolt musik.” Dreamcrusher’s work is at once personal and abstract, revealing and antagonistic; performances and recordings shift between genres while subjecting the characteristic elements—melodies, beats, instrumentation—to distortion until the point of transformation. Dreamcrusher has released dozens of recordings with labels such as PTP, Fire Talk, and Corpus, as well as on Bandcamp and other online platforms. Dreamcrusher is also a member of the duo Centennial Gardens with King Vision Ultra. Website

Brian Droitcour is a writer, critic, translator, and associate editor at Art in America.  

Johanna Drucker is the inaugural Martin and Bernard Breslauer Professor of Bibliographical Studies in the Department of Information Studies at UCLA. She has published and lectured widely on topics related to digital humanities and aesthetics, visual forms of knowledge production, book history and future designs, graphic design, historiography of the alphabet and writing, and contemporary art. Her most recent titles include Graphesis: Visual Forms of Knowledge Production (Harvard University Press, 2014), the jointly authored Digital_Humanities (MIT, 2012) with Anne Burdick, Peter Lunenfeld, Todd Presner, and Jeffrey Schnapp (just released in Italian translation, 2014); Graphic Design History: A Critical Guide (Pearson Prentice Hall) with Emily McVarish, and SpecLab: Projects in Digital Aesthetics and Speculative Computing (Chicago, 2009). In addition to her academic work, Drucker has produced artist’s books and projects that were the subject of a retrospective, Druckworks: 40 years of books and projects.  

Nancy Druckman joined Sotheby’s in 1973 and has directed Sotheby’s American Folk Art department since 1974. The most experienced Folk Art specialist in the auction industry, Ms Druckman has played a major role in the expansion of the market over the last quarter century.  

Lívia Drummond lives in Salvador, Brazil. She has a degree in history from the State University of Bahia and is currently pursuing her master’s degree in literature and culture at the Federal University of Bahia with a fellowship from CAPES. Website

Alexander Dumbadze is associate professor of Art History at George Washington University. His book Bas Jan Ader: Death Is Elsewhere was published by University of Chicago Press in May 2013. He co-edited and co-authored, with Suzanne Hudson, Contemporary Art: 1989 to the Present (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013). In 2011 he received a Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant. He is a founder of both the Society of Contemporary Art Historians and the Contemporary Art Think Tank. Recent essays include “Spectacle and Death” in September 11 (MoMA PS1, 2011) and “Can You Hear the Lights?” in Art, History and the Senses: 1830 to the Present (Ashgate, 2010). Website

Donald Dunbar is the author of the chapbooks You Are So Pretty (Scantily Clad Press, 2009) and Click Click (Gold Wake Press, 2010), and of Eyelid Lick (Fence Books), which won the 2012 Fence Modern Poets Series. He lives in Portland, Oregon, where he co-curates the reading series If Not For Kidnap and teaches poetry to future chefs at Oregon Culinary Institute.  

Maxmilion Dunbar is a moniker of musician, producer, and DJ Andrew Field-Pickering. Dunbar’s second album, House of Woo, was released in February by RVNG Intl.  

Andrew Durbin is the author of Mature Themes (Nightboat 2014) and the chapbook MacArthur Park (Kenning Editions 2015). His work has appeared in BOMB, Boston Review, Flash Art, Poetry London, Text Zur Kunst, and elsewhere. A contributing editor of Mousse, he co-edits the press Wonder and lives in New York. His first novel, Blonde Summer, is forthcoming from Nightboat in 2017. Website

Virginia Dwan  

Dynasty Handbag (a.k.a. Jibz Cameron) is a performance and video artist, musician, and actor. She lives and works in New York.  

Esther Dyson is chairman of EDventure Holdings and founder of Health Intervention Coordinating Council (HICCup). HICCup is an open-source initiative devoted to defining and testing a business model for investing in health (not health care) that will return profits to investors and health to the participants. From October 2008 to March 2009, she lived in Star City outside Moscow and trained as a backup cosmonaut.