[…]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, […]
[…]media theory. John Durham Peters is F. Wendell Miller Distinguished Professor of Communication Studies and Professor of International Studies at the University of Iowa. Author of Speaking into the Air (Chicago, 1999) and Courting the Abyss (Chicago 2005). He has written on a variety of topics, including German media […]
[…]and New Media at De Montfort University where she co-founded TRG, the Transliteracy Research Group. Kate Pullinger writes for both print and digital platforms. In 2009 her novel The Mistress of Nothing won the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction, one of Canada’s most prestigious literary prizes. Her prize-winning digital fiction projects Inanimate Alice and Flight Paths: A Networked Novel have reached audiences around the world. She is Reader in Creative Writing and New Media at De Montfort University where she co-founded TRG, the Transliteracy Research […]
[…]Jacket Magazine, EOAGH: A Journal of the Arts, Shampoo, and Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies. Louis Bury is an English Ph.D. candidate at the CUNY Graduate Center, at work upon a constraint-based dissertation about constraint-based writing. He teaches literature at NYU and plays poker semi-professionally. Recent dissertation work appears in Jacket Magazine, EOAGH: A Journal of the Arts, Shampoo, and Liminalities: A Journal of Performance […]