Anthony Iles is a writer of criticism, fiction and theory. He currently is assistant editor of Mute, an online and quarterly print magazine, http://metamute.org, a project coordinator of the Post-Media Lab at Leuphana University and an Associate Researcher at the UDK Graduate School.
While the book shows some mixed quality in writing and production, it offers a fascinating variety of approaches to its topic. Great starting points for thinking about an elusive art.
I would like to have seen more from women contributors, and more on women performers. In their dearth, Nina Power's effort came off like a token.
Most favorites: Russell, Webster.
Least favorites: Prévost, Power, Mattin on copyright (the latter because it needed another pass by a copyeditor before going to press).