Verena Kuni is professor for Visual Culture at Goethe University of Frankfurt am Main (DE). She publishes widely in international print and online media; since 1997 she runs her own art radio show on radio x ffm. From 1995 to 1999 she was curator for Kasseler Dokumentarfilm & Videofest; since 1999 she is ibid. director of interfiction conference for art, media and network cultures. Her research, teaching, lectures, projects & publications are devoted to contemporary arts & media cultures, their histories & futures. Current projects focus on D.I.Y. & prosumer cultures; media of imagination – imagination of media; technologies of transformation; philosophical toys; transfers between media & material cultures; and digital decay. Web: kuniver.se