Janet Silk is an artist and writer. Her collaborative art projects have been discussed in Snap To Grid: A User’s Guide to Digital Arts, Media, and Cultures; Women, Art and Technology, and Information Arts:  Intersections of Art, Science, and Technology.  She has co-authored articles about her work that have been published in Afterimage, Public Culture, and Leonardo.  Her article about teaching at the American University in Cairo, Egypt, The Pedagogy of Failure in the Global Art Market, is available in the International Journal of Art and Design Education through the Wiley Online Library at  www.wileyonlinelibrary.com.  

As of October 2011, she has published an illustrated personal essay From Life-Art to Hijab, available at Stretcher: Visual Culture in the San Francisco Bay Area and Beyond, www.stretcher.org, which describes her adventure with Life-Art and presents her Qur’anic memorization drawings. Her essay entitled Open a Vein: Suicidal Black Metal and Enlightenment is due for publication in the Winter 2013 inaugural issue of Helvete: A Journal of Black Metal Theory.