Joanne McNeil is an American writer, editor, and art critic known for her personal essays on technology. She has written a non-fiction book on internet culture and a fiction novel.
McNeil founded and edited the now-defunct blog, The Tomorrow Museum, before becoming the editor of Rhizome at the New Museum, 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 Filmmaker Magazine.
McNeil was part of two panels on the New Aesthetic: one called "The New Aesthetic" at SXSW 2012 and a follow-up called "Stories from the New Aesthetic" at the New Museum. 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.
In 2020, McNeil published the non-fiction book Lurking: How a Person Became a User. The book provides a critical history of the Internet from the perspective of its users. In 2023, she published her first fiction novel, Wrong Way, which centers around a gig worker employed by a company deploying a fleet of autonomous vehicles.
Books
- Lurking: How a Person Became a User (2020) ISBN 978-0374194338
- Wrong Way (2023) ISBN 9780374610661
References
- Wortham, Jenna (29 June 2013). "The New York Times". The New York Times. Retrieved 2016-07-14.
- Cotter, Holland (19 March 2010). "The New York Times". The New York Times. Retrieved 2016-07-14.
- "Joanne McNeil | ⚔⚔⚔". joannemcneil.com. Retrieved 2016-07-14.
- Daniel Bogan. "The Setup / Joanne McNeil". joanne.mcneil.usesthis.com. Retrieved 2016-07-14.
- "Rhizome | Joanne McNeil". classic.rhizome.org. Retrieved 2020-08-02.
- "Link Editions publishes new book, Best of Rhizome 2012 | Rhizome". rhizome.org. 11 March 2013. Retrieved 2016-07-14.
- "Link Editions". editions.linkartcenter.eu. Retrieved 2016-07-14.
- "Speculations". Filmmaker Magazine. Retrieved 2020-08-02.
- "Stories from the New Aesthetic :: New Museum". newmuseum.org. Retrieved 2016-07-14.
- "Joanne McNeil | eyebeam.org". eyebeam.org. Retrieved 2016-01-28.
- "Christiane Paul in Conversation with Jon Ippolito and Joanne McNeil - Platform for Pedagogy". www.platformed.org. Retrieved 2016-02-01.
- "Announcing the Inaugural Digital Arts Writing Awards Recipients - Carl & Marilynn Thoma Art Foundation". Archived from the original on 2015-06-03. Retrieved 2019-10-15.
- Lorenz, Taylor (February 25, 2020). "It's Time to Unfriend the Internet". The New York Times. Retrieved December 13, 2023.
- ^ Pearce, Matt (December 12, 2023). "A billionaire and a novelist offer two versions of tech's future. Who's right?". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved December 13, 2023.
- "MCD | Lurking".
External links
- Personal website
- Internet of Dreams blog
- Rhizome archive
- Stories from the New Aesthetic video
- We Are New York Tech interview