Jayna Brown is a writer living in Brooklyn. She works as a Professor at Pratt Institute where she teaches in the Graduate Programs of Media Studies and Performance and Performance Studies. Her first book, Babylon Girls: Black Women Performers and the Shaping of the Modern (Duke University Press, 2008) is about black women variety stage performers, 1890–1945. In her second book, Black Utopias: Speculative Life and the Music of Other Worlds (forthcoming from Duke) she contemplates the meaning of (not) being human in music and science fiction. She has also written articles about a range of topics including punk rock in Britain (Social Text), tech music in Africa (Journal of Popular Music) and Lizzie Borden’s Born in Flames (South Atlantic Quarterly).
Jayna Brown is a writer living in Brooklyn. She works as a Professor at Pratt Institute where she teaches in the Graduate Programs of Media Studies and Performance and Performance Studies. Her first book, Babylon Girls: Black Women Performers and the Shaping of the Modern (Duke University Press, 2008) is about black women variety stage performers, 1890–1945. In her second book, Black Utopias: Speculative Life and the Music of Other Worlds (forthcoming from Duke) she contemplates the meaning of (not) being human in music and science fiction. She has also written articles about a range of topics including punk rock in Britain (Social Text), tech music in Africa (Journal of Popular Music) and Lizzie Borden’s Born in Flames (South Atlantic Quarterly).
CONSTANCE DEJONG is a writer, artist and performer, producing fiction writings and language/image-based work for performance, audio and video installations, audio objects and user-navigated digital formats. Her first book, Modern Love, originally published by Standard Editions with Dorothea Tanning in 1977, was re-issued in March 2017 by Primary Information/Ugly Duckling Presse. She has permanent audio-text installations in Beacon, NY, London and Seattle. DeJong has twice collaborated with Tony Oursler on live performances; was a collaborator on Super Vision, A Builders Association production (2005); librettist for the opera, Satyagraha, composer Philip Glass. She produced and exhibited a series of re-engineered radios programmed with spoken word-foley tracks, written, performed, recorded and mixed by DeJong, 2016-18. NightWriters, a digital text-image project, was published on-line by Triple Canopy, March 2018; and, Bureau gallery exhibited NightWritersdrawings, audio works and a performance, April-May 2018. DeJong is represented by Bureau, NYC.
