Sandra "fokky" Fauconnier (1973) obtained a BA in architecture in 1994 and an MA in art history at Ghent University, Belgium, in 1997, with a dissertation about "Web-specific art: the World Wide Web as an artistic medium". She has published and lectured frequently on the subject of internet art and media art. From 1997 to 2000 she worked as a web designer, webmistress, educator and educational technologist at the Teacher Training Department, Ghent University, Belgium. In February 2000 she became media archivist at V2_Organisation in Rotterdam, where she develops a description system for V2_'s archive, initiated a thesaurus on media art, works with a team of developers on V2_'s website and is involved in various research projects related to copyright and the preservation of electronic art.