Amy Alexander is a new media, audiovisual and performance artist who has also worked in film, video, music and information technology. Her research and practice focuses on how contemporary media - from performative cinema to social media - changes along with cultural and technological shifts. Much of Amy’s recent work is performance-based, often working at intersections of cinema, performing arts, software and popular culture. Amy’s projects have been performed and exhibited on the Internet, in clubs and on the street as well as in festivals and museums. She has written and lectured on software art, software as culture, and audiovisual performance, and she has served as a reviewer for festivals and commissions for new media art and computer music. She is an Associate Professor of Visual Arts at the University of California, San Diego. Amy has a Master of Fine Arts in Film/Video from California Institute of the Arts. She has also worked under the names Cue P. Doll and VJ Übergeek.