Sandy Stone

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Sandy Stone (2011)

Allucquére Rosanne "Sandy" Stone (* around 1936) is an American academic, media theorist , author and performance artist . She is currently Professor and Founding Director of the Advanced Communication Technologies Laboratory (ACTLab) and the New Media Initiative in the Department of Radio, Film and TV at the University of Texas at Austin. She is also a senior artist at the Banff Center and a researcher at the University of California, Irvine . Stone has worked in or written about the fields of film, music, experimental neurology , writing, engineering, and programming. Stone is transgender and is considered one of the founders of the academic discipline of cross- gender studies . She has been featured in ArtForum , Wired , Mondo 2000 and other publications.

Early years and careers

Stone was born in Jersey City , New Jersey . She claims that her original name was "Zelig Ben-Nausaan Cohen" in Hebrew .

Stone stated that she does not appreciate formal education and prefers to hear lectures from university professors whose work she admires. She stated that she worked at Bell Telephone Laboratories and then did minor jobs to fund her own research. She later graduated from St. John's College in Annapolis , Maryland , where she received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1965.

Sound engineering, science fiction, and computers

In the late 1960s, Stone moved to New York City and began a career as a sound engineer, first on the American East Coast, then later on the West Coast. In 1969, Stone wrote about an April 7th recording at Record Plant Studios with Jimi Hendrix for Zygote Magazine. Journalist David S. Bennahum stated that she usually wore a long black coat and a full beard.

In the early 1970s, Stone published several science fiction works under the stage name Sandy Fisher in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and Galaxy .

In 1974, Stone retired from popular recordings, moved to Santa Cruz , California , and underwent gender reassignment surgery on Donald Laub at the Stanford Gender Dysphoria Program in Palo Alto . She later became a member of the Olivia Records collective, a popular women's music label, and began working with lesbian feminist groups.

In the early 1980s, Stone built a small computer, taught herself how to program, and became a freelance programmer, which made her a computer expert.

Private life

While doing research on the online virtual community in 1994, Stone met Cynbe ru Taren (Jeffrey Prothero), a researcher, programmer, and virtual world creator who helped develop Citadel , a major bulletin board system. Stone and ru Taren got married in 1995. Stone and ru Taren currently spend their time alternating between Santa Cruz and Austin . Her other family, as well as her daughter Tanith Stone Thole, also live in Santa Cruz.

Fonts

  • Will The Real Body Please Stand Up ?: Boundary Stories About Virtual Cultures. In: Michael Benedikt (Ed.): Cyberspace: First Steps. MIT Press, Cambridge, 1991.
  • Sex, Death, and Architecture. In: Architecture- New York. ANY, New York 1992.
  • Virtual Systems. In: Jonathan Crary, Sanford Kwinter (Ed.): Zone 6: Incorporations. MIT Press, Cambridge 1993.
  • The Architecture of Elsewhere. In: Hraszthan Zeitlian (Ed.): Semiotext (e) Architecture. Semiotext (e), New York 1993.
  • The Empire Strikes Back: A Post-Transsexual Manifesto. In: Kristina Straub, Julia Epstein (Eds.): Body Guards: The Cultural Politics of Sexual Ambiguity. Routledge, New York 1996. Expanded reprints in other publications. (This essay is often seen as the origin of "Transgender Studies", online ).
  • The War of Desire and Technology at the Close of the Mechanical Age. MIT Press, Cambridge 1996.
  • as Sandy Fisher: The Langley Circuit. In: Galaxy. May 1972.
  • as Sandy Fisher: Farewell to the Artifacts. In: Galaxy. July 1972.
  • as Sandy Fisher: Thank God You're Alive. In: The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. October 1971.

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References and comments

  1. ↑ The date of birth is controversial. In Encyclopedia of New Media it says 1957. In 1995 Stone ArtForum said , from 1988 ... "... I actually have three ages: 12, 30, and 50."
  2. ^ A b Thyrza Nichols Goodeve: How like a goddess. ArtForum , September 1995
  3. ^ François Cusset: French theory. How Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze, & Co. transformed the intellectual life of the United States. University of Minnesota Press, 2008, ISBN 9780816647330 , p. 256.
  4. ↑ The year of graduation is controversial: 1965 in Stone's autobiography ; 1964 in Steve Jones: Encyclopedia of new media: an essential reference to communication and technology. Sage, 2003, ISBN 9780761923824
  5. ↑ Harry Shapiro, Caesar Glebbeek: Jimi Hendrix, electric gypsy. Macmillan, 1995, ISBN 9780312130626
  6. ↑ David S. Bennahum: Just Gaming: Three Days in the Desert with Jean Baudrillard, DJ Spooky, and the chance of band. In: Lingua Franca . 7, 2, 1997, pp. 59-63
  7. ↑ Dawn Levy: Two transsexuals reflect on university's pioneering gender dysphoria program. In: Stanford Report. May 2000
  8. ^ Gregory L. Ulmer: Electronic monuments. University of Minnesota Press, 2005, ISBN 9780816645831
personal data
SURNAME Stone, Sandy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stone, Allucquére Rosanne (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American academic, media theorist, author, and performance artist
DATE OF BIRTH around 1936