Simone Osthoff is Assistant Professor of Critical Studies in the School of Visual Arts at Pennsylvania State University. She is a Brazilian artist and writer based in the U.S. since 1988. Osthoff holds graduate degrees from the University of Maryland and from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she taught Art History, Theory, and Criticism between 1997 and 2001. Her research focuses on Brazilian media arts and have appeared in many journals and books since 1996 such as the New Art Examiner, World Art, and Leonardo. Among recent book chapters are Ecosee: Image, Rhetoric, and Nature, ed. Sid Dobrin and Sean Morey (State University of New York Press, forthcoming); At a Distance: Precursors to Art and Activism on the Internet, ed. A. Chandler and N. Neumark (MIT Press, 2005); ://Brasil, ed. Annick Bureaud (Paris: Anomos/Hyx, 2005); Women, Art, and Technology, edited by J. Malloy (MIT Press, 2003). Osthoff received a Fulbright Fellowship in 2003 and is currently working on a book about art, design, and critical theory in the Jornal do Brasil Sunday Supplement during the utopian years between 1956-1960. At present, she is a Ph.D. candidate in the Media and Communications Program at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland.