Canadian writer Jeff Bursey’s reviews and critical articles have appeared in American Book Review, Books in Canada, Literary Review (England), Nexus: The International Henry Miller Journal, Paper Empire: William Gaddis and the World System (co-authored paper), The Review of Contemporary Fiction, and Quarter After Eight. His fiction has won awards and two of his plays have been performed. He was also an early member of the Jeff Gaddis-L online mailing […]
[…]and Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, have sold millions of copies and received worldwide critical acclaim. He is also the director of two award-winning short films, Waiting for Dark and Chavez Ravine: A Los Angeles Story. Mechner received his BA from Yale University. Jordan Mechner is one of the world’s best-known videogame creators. His games, including Karateka, Prince of Persia, The Last Express, and Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, have sold millions of copies and received worldwide critical acclaim. He is also the director of two award-winning short films, Waiting for Dark and Chavez Ravine: A […]
[…]began his gaming pursuits in the role-playing world, founding and running the Seasons of Darkness group, a 5 1/2 year live action project featured on Showtime, and writing for tabletop role-playing titles. Nick Fortugno is the Director of Game Design at gameLab, where he has participated in the design of a variety of digital and non-digital games, including serving as lead designer of the downloadable hit Diner Dash. Nick began his gaming pursuits in the role-playing world, founding and running the Seasons of Darkness group, a 5 1/2 year live action project featured on Showtime, and writing for tabletop role-playing […]
[…]at the University of California, Irvine, where he serves as Affiliated Faculty in the Visual Studies Program, and as co-director for the Art, Computation, and Engineering (ACE) Program. Robert Nideffer researches, teaches, and publishes in the areas of virtual environments and behavior, interface theory and design, technology and culture, and contemporary social theory. He holds an MFA in Computer Arts, and a PhD in Sociology. He is an Associate Professor in Studio Art and Informatics at the University of California, Irvine, where he serves as Affiliated Faculty in the Visual Studies Program, and as co-director for the Art, Computation, and […]
[…]in computer games with a main focus on MUDs, text-based online games, from a background of media studies, and maintains a Web log. She is an Associate Professor at the Media Department of Volda University College, Norway. Torill Mortensen studies online cultures as expressed and formed through Web logs and computer games. She has a PhD in computer games with a main focus on MUDs, text-based online games, from a background of media studies, and maintains a Web log. She is an Associate Professor at the Media Department of Volda University College, […]
Adriene Jenik is a telecommunications media artist who has been working for over fifteen years as an artist, educator, curator, administrator, and engineer. Her works – including El Naftazteca (with Guillermo Gomez-Pena), Mauve Desert: A CD-ROM Translation, and Desktop Theater (with Lisa Brenneis and the DT troupe) – use the collision of “high” technology and human desire to propose new forms of literature, cinema, and performance. Adriene Jenik is a telecommunications media artist who has been working for over fifteen years as an artist, educator, curator, administrator, and engineer. Her works – including El Naftazteca (with Guillermo Gomez-Pena), Mauve Desert: […]
[…]wrote and appeared in two solo shows, 10,000 Comic Books and Michigan Disasters. Additionally, he studies, performs, and teaches improvisational theater, having worked with the Brave New Workshop, Stevie Ray’s, and the Scrimshaw Brothers’ Look Ma, No Pants, among others. He can also be seen performing 300 Comic Books, a solo-improv structure of his own creation. Tim Uren is a Twin Cities actor and comedian. As part of the Minnesota Fringe Festival he wrote and appeared in two solo shows, 10,000 Comic Books and Michigan Disasters. Additionally, he studies, performs, and teaches improvisational theater, having worked with the Brave New […]
[…]social transformation of adult and child participants. In these environments, Robert engages in studies of the microgenetic development of intersubjectivity between undergraduates and children as they participate in activities that mix learning and […]
BRUNO ARICH-GERZ is Juniorprofessor of American Literature, Media and Communication Studies at the TU Darmstadt. He received his PhD from the University of Konstanz in 2000 with a thesis on Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow and reader response theory (published in 2001). His publications include a monograph on media technology, trauma theory and literature (2004), a collection of essays on Namibia’s double colonial past and their reverberations in present-day post-colonial literature in English and German (2008), and various articles on e-Learning. BRUNO ARICH-GERZ is Juniorprofessor of American Literature, Media and Communication Studies at the TU Darmstadt. He received his PhD from […]
[…]Representation (U of Nebraska P, 2007). Marco Abel is an assistant professor of English and film studies at the University of Nebraska. His essays have appeared in journals including PMLA, Modern Fiction Studies, Angelaki, and Senses of Cinema. He is the author of Violent Affect: Literature, Cinema, and Critique After Representation (U of Nebraska P, […]