the
street as well as in festivals and museums. She is an Associate Professor
of Visual Arts at the University of California, San Diego. Besides southern California, she can occasionally be
found in Philadelphia and New Jersey.
Amy - who has also worked under the names Cue P. Doll and VJ Übergeek - was a dinosaur pioneer in the development of software-based net art, beginning in 1996 with the Webby-nominated Multi-Cultural Recycler, a project that spoofed both net celebrity and faux multi-culturalism on the web. Her later software projects include theBot,
Reamweaver, Scream and CyberSpaceLand. She is also a co-founder and moderator
of the Runme.org software art repository, and is active in software art
curation. Amy's latest software project, 
SVEN:
Surveillance Video Entertaiment Network, with Wojciech Kosma and Vincent
Rabaud, is a real-time computer vision surveillance and video production system that detects
likely rock stars in public places. Although SVEN was initially created
as a street performance, Alexander and Kosma more recently developed
an installation version, which was on view at the Whitney Museum during Summer
2007 as part of the Profiling exhibition.
Amy's projects have also been exhibited at venues ranging from Prix Ars Electronica, Transmediale, SIGGRAPH, and the New Museum to club performances at Sonar (Barcelona), First Avenue (Minneapolis) and Melkweg (Amsterdam). She has performed on the streets of Los Angeles, San Diego, San Jose, Zürich, and Aberdeen, Scotland. Her work has been discussed in publications including Wired, The New York Times, Slashdot, Ecrans, Leonardo, The Boston Globe and the Washingon Post.
In addition to software art, Alexander is active in visual performance.
Besides continuing her VJ performances, she has written on visual performance history.
She is currently developing further visual performance work and researching the relationship between television and new media.