Adriene Jenik is an award-winning video/TV maker, artist and is currently an Assistant Professor of Computer and Media Arts at UCSD. Her previous directorial credits include "What's the Difference Between a Yam & a Sweet Potato?" and "El Naftaztea: Cyber-Aztec TV for 2000 A.D." A former member of the Paper Tiger TV collective in NYC, Jenik was steered by the novel toward the computer.

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