Dot Tuer is a writer, cultural historian and theorist whose research focuses on the intersection of technology, memory, identity, and post-colonialism in the art and history of the Americas , art and Latin American history. She has published widely and lectured on new media and installation art and a book of her selected essays, Mining the Media Archive: Art, Technology, and Cultural Resistance is forthcoming from YYZ Press (December 2005). Tuer is Professor of Art History and Humanities at the Ontario College of Art and Design and Associate Graduate Faculty at York University and the University of Guelph .