Biography:

Simon Ford is currently assistant editor at Mute magazine. Before that he was Special Collections Bibliographer at the National Art Library, Victoria and Albert Museum, London. He received his PhD in the History of Art from the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, in 2000 for a dissertation on avant-gardism in Britain, 1969-1981. He is a regular contributor on matters of contemporary art to Art Monthly and Texte zur Kunst and has written two books: Wreckers of Civilisation: The Story of COUM Transmissions and Throbbing Gristle (1999) and The Realization and Suppression of the Situationist International (1994). He is the editor of Information sources in art, art history and design (2001) and contributed the chapter on contemporary art and publishing for The Art of the Book (2001). His short story Zyklon B Zombie appeared in the anthology Suspect Device: A Reader in Hard-edged Fiction (1998).

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