Dr Francesca da Rimini lives in Tarntanya/Adelaide, on the unceded Country of the Kaurna people. She is recognised as an international pioneer of experimental non-linear electronic fiction, receiving an Australia Council New Media Fellowship in 1999. Her epistolary novel FleshMeat (1998) records desire experienced in the slippage between VL (virtual life) and RL (real life) in a then- uncommodified internet, and her award-winning hypertext narrative dollspace (1997) remains a touchstone in electronic literature. Avatars — GashGirl, doll yoko, Fury — often amplify her voice. Collaboration is vital; da Rimini co-founded the cyberfeminist art collective VNS Matrix (1991—ongoing), and identity_runners (1998— ongoing). Writing forms the bedrock of her local / international performances through poems, zines, videos, online and installation artworks exploring madness, gender, sexuality, power and the prophetic voice. Recent works have manifested at the Center for Book Arts (NYC), SIGGRAPH (online), Runway (online), Hunter College Art Gallery (NYC), and ACE (Adelaide).