alex cruse is an Oakland-based writer, artist, and educator, whose work synthesizes the disciplines of poetry, video, installation, and new media. She is interested in systems of governmentality/surveillance as social modalities; technology’s capacity to both build and dismantle informational and linguistic structures, and the politics of representation produced therein. Her writing/art has been featured in ARMED CELL, SFMOMA Open Space, The East Bay Express, Maximumrockandroll, Rolling Stone, ditch, 3:AM Magazine, Poets Reading the News, and The Los Angeles Times, among other places. She has performed and exhibited nationally and abroad.