Julian Stallabrass is Senior Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Art at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London. He is the author of Gargantua: Manufactured Mass Culture (Verso, 1996), Ground Control: Technology and Utopia (Black Dog Publishing, 1997), High Art Lite: British Art in the 1990s (Verso, 1999), Internet Art: The Online Clash of Culture and Commerce (Tate Publications, 2003); and Art Incorporated: The Story of Contemporary Art (Oxford University Press, 2004).