Tiffany Funk (PhD) is an artist, art historian, and writer specializing in emerging media, computer art, video games, and performance art. She researches and develops work that explores current and historical technological art practices. She co-founded IDEAS (Interdisciplinary Education in the Arts), an intermedia arts degree-granting program at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Funk is the Director of Publications for the Video Game Art Gallery and the founder and Editor-in-Chief of the Video Game Art Reader, a peer-reviewed journal for video game audiences and practitioners interested in the history, theory, and criticism of video games, explored through the lens of art history and visual culture. [full cv]