Director of the IAWP program, Lori Emerson is also an associate professor in the English Department and founding director of the Media Archeology Lab. She writes about media poetics and the history of computing, media archeology, media theory and digital humanities. Her current book projects include Other Networks, a history of telecommunications networks that existed before or outside of the Internet, and THE LAB BOOK: Situated Practices in Media Studies, cowritten with Jussi Parikka and Darren Wershler. Past work includes Reading Writing Interfaces: From the Digital to the Bookbound (University of Minnesota Press, June 2014). She has coedited three collections: The Johns Hopkins Guide to Digital Media, with Marie-Laure Ryan and Benjamin Robertson (2014); Writing Surfaces: The Selected Fiction of John Riddell, with Derek Beaulieu (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2013); and The Alphabet Game: A bpNichol Reader, with Darren Wershler (Coach House Books 2007).

Cinthya García Leyva is a researcher and cultural manager. Her work focuses on interdisciplinary practices and extended poetics. Her most recent research is dedicated to exploring the notions of erasure, erosion, residue and rewriting in contemporary textualities. She studied guitar at the National School of Music and Language and Hispanic Letters at the UNAM Faculty of Philosophy and Letters. She has a Master’s in Comparative Literature from the same institution and is preparing her doctorate with the project The Power of Now: The Poetics and Politics of Legibility in Sound Art. She has made multiple individual and collective interventions in spaces such as the University Museum of Contemporary Art, El Chopo University Museum, Radio UNAM, the Digital Culture Center, the Design and Architecture Archive, the Spanish Cultural Center in Mexico, the National Phonotheque, Casa del Lago Juan José Arreola, the Claustro de Sor Juana University, Palacio de Bellas Artes,