Meredith Tromble is an artist and writer who specializes in the relation between art, science, and technology as well as in California art history. She is a member of the artist collective stretcher.org, and her own recent work includes a series of performance/interventions at SFAI. Her practice as an art writer began when she was a regular artist/commentator for KQED. In addition to producing hundreds of commentaries in fifteen years of broadcasting and public speaking, she has authored a number of articles and served as art editor or editor-in-chief for four print magazines, including Artweek and Art Contemporaries. She edited The Art and Films of Lynn Hershman Leeson: Secret Agents, Private I (2005), a book on new-media artist and chair of SFAI’s Film department Lynn Hershman Leeson. She received a BA from New College of California and an MFA in studio art from Mills College. In 2005, she was given the 2005 Faculty Award from SFAI’s graduate program. Tromble is currently at work on a project about collective creativity.