Peter Lunenfeld is teaching Media Design at Art Center College of Design.

He is director of the Institute for Technology & Aesthetics (ITA), and is

founder of mediawork: The Southern California New Media Working Group.

He lives in Los Angeles and is the author of "Snap to Grid: A User's Guide

to Digital Arts, Media, and Culture"(MIT Press, 2000)

A good example is his essay "Demo or Die", included in the book

(and the www.nettime.org list archive). Peter Lunenfeld is also the editor

of "The Digital Dialectic: New Essays on New Media" (MIT Press, 1999),

and writes "User," a column for the journal art/text. He is editing Mediawork

Pamphlets for the MIT Press, "a collection of intellectually sophisticated,

visually compelling short works that will unite contemporary thinkers

with cutting edge graphic designers to create theoretical fetish objects.

The first will appear in 2001.

utilities for a "Manifesto": "we donŐt need a manifesto for the 21st century , we need Utilities"