Biography of Karasic

Carmin Karasic is a digital artist and former programmer. Her website can be found Here.
Karasic is known for her digital art installations in galleries and online. However, she is probably best known for her work with FloodNet, which was a project of the Electronic Disturbance Theater and was considered some of the first successful hacktivism. In 1998, FloodNet was launched. It is a program that when run on a user's computer (generally taking up spare cpu cycles much like the SETI project later) automatically reloads webpages, and when used in mass, can crash the server of the targeted page. It was most famously used against the Mexican government in protest of the war in Chiapas. Karasic describes FloodNet as the following:
"FloodNet is conceptual Internet art of becoming -- it needs the participation of thousands of online participants to become fully actualized. FloodNet enables a performance of presence in solidarity with the Zapatistas, which says to Mexico (and its close ally the United States): we are numerous, alert, and watching carefully."
Karasic has won many awards for her art and published interviews as a result, which can be found on her website; she also has an extensive resume as a programmer. Otherwise, she lives in Boston, is 47, and has two children. She has been a full-time digital artist since 1996.

A work by Karasic: "Electric Dreams, Binary Desire." From her site.

References to/reviews of "WLAJFA" currently on the internet:

There is a review of the site on fertilepress.com , with a link and the brief mention of:
"Her url's carmin.iscool.net, and Carmin Karasic is cool. So is "With Liberty and Justice for All," Carmin's autobiographical installation piece."

WLAJFA is also linked on stunned.org ; here there is no review but a mention that her site is about "childhood memory and identity."
The site is also linked - along with various iterations of her home page - at carlagirl.net .

Finally, it is linked in the "Women's New Media Gallery," a project of trAce, where the following is said about the site; it is
"A meditation on identity, memory and growing up Black in America."

WLAJFA is cited on Beyondwriting.com as well, where it is identified as: "In the form of a family album, an African American woman who was born in the early 1950s looks back on her early years."

The ASCI.org site, while linking to Karasic's site as a winner, offers no reasoning for why the site won. They do, however, helpfully provide an artist's statement, and a biography that is a repetition of the information conveyed on Karasic's CV, which is copied numerous times throughout the internet, according to Google.