Karyl E. Ketchum received her Ph.D. in Cultural Studies at the University of California, Davis. She is a self-proclaimed technofile who easily loses entire days to her computer. Her research interests include technology and visual culture, with particular attention to the effects, affects and politics of representaiton in the "Digital Age."

Karyl has published and contributed to articles on Cultural Studies and Visual Culture in Germany, the U.K., Italy, and the U.S. Projects currently under development include a multimedia book project entitled, Technovisual Formalism: Representation in a Digital Age. Currently, Karyl is at Cal State Fullerton leading classsrooms full of students in strategic digital interventions into the Internet: challenging censorship, contesting the "digital divide" and attempting to re-colonize the net as a democratic space of intellectual and creative freedom.

Contact Karyl at: keketchum@ucdavis.edu