Julia Steinmetz is trying to sit still for a second.

She is an artist, computer nerd, musician, designer, writer and aspiring scholar. She co-founded the feminist art collective Toxic Titties, a Los Angeles based group using performance, film and video to bring a subcultural phenomenon into the frame of conceptual art. The Toxic Titties have performed, exhibited and screened their work extensively in festivals, museums, galleries, and bars around the globe. Recently, their film At Home with the Toxic Titties (2006) was screened at the Viennale International Film Festival. An essay critically documenting the TT's rouge ethnography of a Vanessa Beecroft performance at the Gagosian Gallery in Beverly Hills (Beecroft Intevention 2002) was published in the Spring 2006 issue of the jounal Signs. An interview with the Toxic Tittties, Guerrilla Girls and Dyke Action Machine recently appeared in the Journal of the National Women's Studies Association. The Toxic Titties are hatching some plans for a new experimental 16 mm film. Watch for details as they emerge.

Julia is working on her Ph.D. in Performance Studies at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, where she earned an MA in Spring 2006. She is currently researching and writing about transfeminism, contemporary feminist media art, and performance and technology. Julia also has an MFA in Photography and Media Art from the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts, 2002). She is trying to strike a balance between her art practice, research, critical writing, and teaching. She also practices yoga, swims, and volunteers at the Hetrick Martin Institute, all of which helps keep things in perspective. Julia hopes to spend a lot more time watching television and reading US Weekly in the near future. She is currently cheating on Los Angeles and having an affair with New york.