Rita J. King

Rita J. King is the founder and creative director of Dancing Ink Productions, a company that works on creative collaboration with clients all over the world, from IBM and Manpower Inc. to the British Council and the National Institute of Aerospace. She is Innovator-in-Residence at IBM Analytics Virtual Center and a Senior Fellow at the Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress.She speaks frequently about identity and community in the digital culture for real world benefit. She was recently featured in a cover story in The New York Times Magazine, "Cyberspace When You're Dead," and is one of the first journalists to have documented the implications of digital anonymity on society in the seminal Village Voice cover story, "Terms of Service: Sweaty Scenes from the Life of an AOL Censor."She's a writer currently at work on a book of essays and a novel. Her art, essays and other creative interventions have been commissioned globally.