Jon Ippolito is an artist and Assistant Curator of Media Arts at the Guggenheim Museum, where he curated Virtual Reality: An Emerging Medium events for John Cage's Rolywholyover A Circus CyberAtlas (winner of Best Online Exhibition Site at the 1999 Museums and the Web conference), and, with John Hanhardt, The Worlds of Nam June Paik. He has been an artist-in-residence at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and the Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito, and has taught as a visiting professor at the Yale School of Art and as visiting artist at the Art Center College of Design in Pasedena and the School of Visual Arts in New York. Ippolito's critical writing has appeared in Flash Art the Art Journal and various exhibition catalogues; he writes a regular column for ArtByte magazine. Together with his artistic collaborators Janet Cohen and Keith Frank, he has earned a Louis Comfort Tiffany prize and a Lannan Foundation residency grant, and has exhibited work at the Walker Art Center, ZKM/Center for New Media Karlsruhe, and WNET's ReelNewYork Web site. Their recent exhibition, Three Degrees of Separation opened at Sandra Gering Gallery in New York on May 25th.