Dr Francesca da Rimini (she/her) lives in Tarntanya/Adelaide on the unceded Land of the Kaurna people. She is recognised as an international pioneer of non-linear fiction and her award-winning hypertext narrative dollspace (1997) remains a touchstone in electronic literature. In 1999 she received an Australia Council New Media Fellowship. Collaboration is vital; da Rimini co-founded cyberfeminist art collective VNS Matrix (1991—ongoing), transcontinental group identity_runners (1998—ongoing), In Her Interior (2015—ongoing), and often works with sound artist Michael Grimm. Writing forms the bedrock of her performances through poems, zines, videos, online and installation artworks working through madness, gender, sexuality, power and the prophetic voice. Avatars and spectres including GashGirl, doll yoko, Liquid_Nation and Fury often amplify her voice. Collage, algorithmic generative writing techniques and remix are also central to Francesca’s practice. A recent collaboration with accomplices resulted in the mixed media installation Imagine, ghost fields for Daily Ritual (Center for Book Arts, New York, 2022). Currently she is casting Vernacular Magic, a commission by FoAM for Anarchive. Francesca is preparing tongues of quickened silver, a book weaving her performance texts with ecstatic shards and strange borrowings.