Margaret Morse teaches in the Film and Digital Media Department at the University of California at Santa Cruz and is currently Chair of the Digital Arts/New Media MFA Program. She is the author of Virtualities: Television, Media Art and Cyberculture (Indiana Univ. Press, 1998) and co-author of Hardware, Software, Artware (Cantz Verlag and ZKM 1997), as well as numerous essays and articles on subjects ranging from the erotics of listserves and what cyborgs eat to whether or not robots might feel pain. Her current research is concerned with sensory perception in digital culture.