SHAWNÉ MICHAELAIN HOLLOWAY is a Virginia-based new media artist and poet. Known for her noisy experimental electronics and performance practice, HOLLOWAY shapes the rhetorics of computer programming and sadomasochism into tools for exposing structures of power. She has spoken and exhibited work internationally since 2012 in spaces like Performance Space New York, Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC), and the NRW-Forum Düsseldorf. SHAWNÉ is currently a co-director of netizen.org and Assistant Professor of Kinetic Imaging at Virginia Commonwealth University︎︎︎. At VCU, she runs media arts programming through her lab, THE P.A.T.C.H. CLINIC where she leads research and development on #realtimeMedia and expanded cinema projects that result in free and accessible educational materials, exhibitions, and/or interdisciplinary coursework. Additionally, SHAWNÉ is 1/2 of the ambient sound project duo BONE LATTICE︎︎︎ and a chatty 5 AM club gym girl/bodybuilder type that happens to be an avid Star Trek watcher and fencing enthusiast.