Joanne McNeil is an American writer, editor, and art critic known for her personal essays on technology. She has written a book on internet culture. McNeil founded and edited the now-defunct blog, ''The Tomorrow Museum'', before becoming the editor of

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at the

New Museum The New Museum of Contemporary Art, founded in 1977 by Marcia Tucker, is a museum in New York City at 235 Bowery, on Manhattan's Lower East Side. History The museum originally opened in a space in the Graduate Center of the then-named New Sc ...

, in 2011. She held the position through 2012, when She edited ''The Best of Rhizome 2012'', published through LINK Editions/LINK Center for the Arts. She has contributed to Frieze, Los Angeles Times, Wired, and the Boston Globe. She currently maintains a column called ''Speculations'' for

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. McNeil was part of two panels on the

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: one called "The New Aesthetic" at

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2012 and a follow-up called "Stories from the New Aesthetic" at the

. McNeil was an Eyebeam resident. In 2015, McNeil was the inaugural recipient of the Thoma Foundation Digital Arts Writing Award for an emerging arts writer who has made significant contributions to the intersection of art and technology.

Books

*''Lurking: How a Person Became a User'' (2020)

References

External links

Personal siteInternet of Dreams blog

Rhizome archive

Stories from the New Aesthetic video

We Are New York Tech interview
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