Gabriella Giannachi is Professor in Performance and New Media, and Director of the Centre for Intermedia at the University of Exeter, which promotes advanced interdisciplinary research in performance and the arts through collaborations between artists, academics and scientists from a range of disciplines. Her most recent and forthcoming book publications include: Virtual Theatres: an Introduction (Routledge: 2004); Performing Nature: Explorations in Ecology and the Arts, ed. with Nigel Stewart (Peter Lang: 2005); The Politics of New Media Theatre (Routledge: 2007); Performing Presence: Between the Live and the Simulated, co-authored with Nick Kaye (MUP: forthcoming 2010); Archaeologies of Presence, co-edited with Nick Kaye and Michael Shanks (Routledge, forthcoming: 2011) and Performing Mixed Reality, co-authored with Steve Benford (MITP: forthcoming 2011). She is an investigator in the RCUK funded Horizon Digital Economy Research Hub.