Amy Alexander is a software and performance artist and VJ , who has worked in film, video, music, and information technology as well as in digital media art. Her work has been presented on the Internet, in clubs and on 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 was a 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.

In addition to software art, Alexander is active in visual performance. Besides continuing her VJ performances, she has co-authored a chapter on audiovisual performance with Nick Collins for The Cambridge Companion to Electronic Music, which will be published in January 2008. She is currently researching new work that will combine her background in visual music (abstract animation) with contemporary algorithmic and cultural aesthetics.