Peter Lunenfeld is a professor in the UCLA Design Media Arts department, and affiliated faculty in Digital Humanities. He works at the intersection of media philosophy, design theory, art criticism, urban history and digital humanities. Founder and director of the Institute for Technology & Aesthetics (The ITA), his books include City at the Edge of Forever: Los Angeles Reimagined; Digital_Humanities (co-authored with Anne Burdick, Johanna Drucker, Todd Presner, and Jeffrey Schnapp); The Secret War Between Downloading and Uploading: Tales of the Computer as Culture Machine; USER: InfoTechnoDemo; Snap to Grid: A User’s Guide to Digital Arts, Media & Cultures; and the edited volume, The Digital Dialectic: New Essays on New Media. Creator and editorial director of the MIT Press’ multi-award-winning Mediawork project, he’s won the International Awards for Art Criticism (IAAC) and the Dorothy Lee Award from the Media Ecology Association (MEA). He’s held fellowships at the Huntington Library, the Ingmar Bergman Estate on Fårö, and the Columbia University Institute for Scholars in Paris. He holds a B.A. in history from Columbia University, an M.A. in Media Studies from SUNY Buffalo, and a Ph.D. from UCLA in Film, Television and New Media. For additional information, visit Professor Lunenfeld's website.