Nancy Mauro-Flude is an artist and media designer based in Tasmania. Her work has been commissioned, exhibited and performed in Australia, UK, Europe, North/South-America and Asia. Nancy was awarded. Awarded 1:1 honours degree in Critical Theory (Performance), University of Sydney (2000) and an MPhil (Media Design), Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences (2007). Nancy was Honorary Researcher at the Slade School of Art in London (2007-8). She was been artist-in-residence at Somatic Movement Institute (2000-1); DasArts: advanced institute for Theatre and dance Amsterdam School of Art (2001-4), Waag society for/new & old media (2003-5) and Museum Quartier, Vienna (2008). Under various pseudonyms she actively works to fuse radical forms of open culture with educational and social structures, especially in relatively conservative and weakly networked regions and communities. Nancy is a sessional Lecturer at the Tasmanian College of the Arts, University of Tasmania and has recently completed her Doctoral thesis 'The Performance of Code and the Dramatrugy of Transmission'.