Rebecca Cummins

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Rebecca Cummins is a photographer and multi-media artist living in Seattle, Washington. [1]

She was awarded the Chancellor's Award from the University of Technology, Sydney and the outstanding University 2003 PhD dissertation entitled Necro-Techno: Examples from an Archeology of Media. [2] She is a professor of art at the University of Washington. [3]

Her work has been exhibited at the Exploratorium in San Francisco. [4] One of her pieces was used as cover art for Jake Seniuk's book, Strait Art. [5]

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  2. "700 Million Miles an Hour - An Evening With Rebecca Cummins". University of Chicago Film Studies Center. 2011. Archived from the original on 20 May 2022. Retrieved 16 November 2019.
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  5. de la Paz, Diane Urbani (12 May 2020). "Decades of art: New book celebrates 'Upper Left-Hand Corner'". Peninsula Daily News. Archived from the original on 4 November 2021. Retrieved 5 November 2022.