DAVID TREND is most recently co-director of programs at the Capp Street Project, a nonprofit alternative arts organization. Trend spent five years as editor of Afterimage, the award-winning progressive visual arts publication. He lectures nationally on media and culture and has written over 80 articles and essays for such periodicals as Afterimage, Art in America, Cultural Studies, and Exposure. He holds an MFA in visual arts studies from the State University of New York at Buffalo.