About

Geeta Dayal has been writing for the past decade on the intersections between sound, visual art, and technology. She has written hundreds of articles and reviews for major publications, including Slate, Wired, Frieze, Cabinet, Bookforum, The Wire, The Village Voice, The New York Times, Print, and many more. She is a recent recipient of a major grant from Creative Capital | The Andy Warhol Foundation in the Arts Writers Program. Her first book, Another Green World, on the musician Brian Eno, was published by Continuum in 2009. Her essays appear in several anthologies on music, including The New Grove Dictionary of Music (Oxford, 2013), Loops (Faber & Faber, 2009), The Resistible Demise of Michael Jackson (Zer0, 2009), The Pitchfork 500 (Simon & Schuster, 2008) and Marooned (Da Capo, 2007). She has taught several courses as a lecturer in new media and journalism at the University of California – Berkeley, Fordham University, and the State University of New York. She holds two undergraduate degrees from M.I.T. (2001) and a master’s degree from Columbia (2003).  At M.I.T., she studied cognitive neuroscience and film, and did extensive work in video and installation art.

She has lived, at various points, in New York City, San Francisco, Berlin, and Boston. She currently lives in San Francisco, and serves on the steering committee of the San Francisco Electronic Music Festival. She generally dislikes writing about herself in the third person. To get in contact, click here.