Helen J. Burgess is Associate Professor of English and core faculty in the Communication, Rhetoric and Digital Media PhD Program at North Carolina State University. She is editor of Hyperrhiz: New Media Cultures and coeditor of the scholarly digital imprint Hyperrhiz Electric. She has published in many short and long digital forms over the years, including works in print, online, and in DVD-Rom format. Her most recent work is Intimate Fields, volume IV in the Kits for Cultural History Series, with Margaret Simon. Other installation works include MashBOT, Loving Together with Roland's Bots, Anna Autopoeitic and Bombix Fusus.