UC New Media Research Directory
Forrest, Seth
April 13th, 2007 under Grad Students, Uncategorized. [ Comments: none ]

Graduate Student, English Dept., UC Davis
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Seth ForrestSeth Forrest is a doctoral candidate in the Department of English at the University of California, Davis where he teaches courses in literature and composition. His research interests cover: poetry and poetics from the British Romantics to the L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E writers; sound studies; modern and contemporary music; and media-assisted pedagogy. Seth’s dissertation engages new theories and methodologies of prosody by analyzing the poetry of Black Mountain writers Charles Olson, Robert Duncan, Robert Creeley, Paul Blackburn and Larry Eigner. To that end, his dissertation considers tape recordings, especially the collections of UCSD’s Archive for New Poetry and the PennSound archives, as primary audiotexts. The project locates the Black Mountain School in a crucial moment in the history of sound and in the history of sound technology. It explores the distinction between orality and aurality and theorizes new approaches to “old media” such as typewriters, portable tape recorders and mimeography and the role of technologies on poetic style. He is also working on a series of essays on recorded poetry, acousmatics and the notion of “secondary orality”.

Seth has taught numerous courses for the Department of English, from lower-division and advanced composition to a seminar on sound in American poetry. His courses frequently experiment with new media tools such as hypertext, collaborative wiki assignments and podcasts along with good old fashioned close reading.

Seth also writes poetry and makes sound collages from samples and field recordings. He is an active volunteer at KDVS, the freeform community radio station located on the UC Davis campus. When he is not working, he is playing outside with his two boys, Leo and Miles.


Shepard, David
April 13th, 2007 under Grad Students, Uncategorized. [ Comments: none ]

Graduate Student, English Dept., UCLA

David ShepardA former web designer and programmer, David Shepard’s interests center around code as art form and gaming, but he has also done work on early radio. With Alison Walker and Jessica Pressman, he has published Media-Specific Analysis: Analyzing the Specificities of Digital Texts, a web project that explores the specificity of presenting information in various digital platforms. He is currently writing on games and authorship.



Hageman, Andrew
April 13th, 2007 under Grad Students, Uncategorized. [ Comments: none ]

Graduate Student, English Dept., UC Davis

Andrew HagemanAndrew Hageman is a doctoral student in the English Department at the University of California, Davis, pursuing his degree with a designated emphasis in Critical Theory, and he is a member of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE). His current research focuses on re-envisioning ecocriticism in a posthumanities context by analyzing the intersections of ecology, technology, and ideology in literature and cinema. Of particular interest are Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, cyberpunk and cybernetic fiction, Bruce Sterling and his “dot-green future,” and the films of David Lynch; and ever on the periphery, Chinese film & culture with an affinity for contemporary Shanghai. Recent conference presentations include “Floating Consciousness: Lou Ye’s Suzhou River as Posthumanist Tributary of Mainland Chinese Cinema” at the ACSS Conference in Shanghai 2005 (forthcoming in a volume on Chinese Eco-Cinema) and “Herzog and Treadwell Lost in the Grizzly Gaze: Grizzly Man and Eco-Cinema” at the 2006 Film & History Conference in Dallas.


LaFarge, Antoinette
April 6th, 2007 under Faculty, Uncategorized. [ Comments: none ]

Associate Professor of Digital Media, UC Irvine; Associate Director of the UCI Game Culture and Technology Lab; Director of Academic Computing for the Claire Trevor School of the Arts, UCI
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Antoinette LaFargeAntoinette LaFarge has a particular interest in constructed realities, including computer-mediated performance, net-based improvisation, online role-playing games, avatar performance, playable media, nonlinear narrative, fictive art, and geofiction. Recent mixed-reality and intermedia performance works include Demotic (2003/2006), The Roman Forum Project (2003), Reading Frankenstein (2003), Virtual Live (2002), and The Roman Forum (2000). She has co-curated two groundbreaking exhibitions on computer games and art: “ALT+CTRL: A Festival of Independent and Alternative Games” (2003) and “SHIFT-CTRL: Computers, Games, and Art” (2000) at UCI’s Beall Center for Art and Technology. She is the founder and artistic director of the Plaintext Players, a pioneering online Internet performance troupe that has appeared at numerous international venues, including the 1997 Venice Biennale and documenta X. She is also the founder and director of the Museum of Forgery, a virtual institution dedicated to opening up the cultural dialogue around forgery and related practices such as appropriation. She is associate editor of the anthology Searching for Sebald (2007), and her critical writing and fiction have appeared in several books, including Benjamin’s Blind Spot (2001). Recent publications include “Media Commedia” (Leonardo, 2005), “25 Propositions on the Art of Networlds” (Anthology of Art, 2002), and “Marcel Duchamp and the Museum of Forgery” (Tout-Fait: The Marcel Duchamp Studies Online Journal, 2002). From 1995 to 1998 she served as Guest Editor of the annual Digital Salon issue of Leonardo.


Lewak, Sue
April 6th, 2007 under Grad Students, Uncategorized. [ Comments: none ]

Graduate Student, English Dept., UCLA

Sue LewakSue Lewak is a doctoral candidate in the department of English at UCLA. She specializes in 20th century American literature, little magazines (hard-copy/online self-publication), and literature and the environment. She is currently completing a dissertation entitled: “Soft Poems: Access to Raw Tools.”


Goldfarb, Brian
April 4th, 2007 under Faculty, Uncategorized. [ Comments: none ]

Associate Professor, Communication Dept., UC San Diego
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Kevin C. AlmerothBrian Goldfarb is a digital media artist, curator, and Associate Professor of Communication at the University of California, San Diego. His research and visual media production focuses on media studies and contemporary visual and digital culture. His book, Visual Pedagogy: Media Cultures in and beyond the Classroom, (Duke University Press, 2002), considers how media technologies were used in the second half of the 20th century to advance a model of pedagogy across the arts, education, and postcolonial politics in the United States and globally. Goldfarb’s digital art projects have been exhibited internationally, and on the Web. His Ocular Convergence, an interactive, fictional, and critical examination of digital prosthetics for enhancing vision, has been exhibited in museums throughout the US , Mexico City, Calgary, Paris and Johannesburg. Goldfarb was education curator at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in NYC from 1994-7, where he organized “alt.youth.media” (Fall 1996), an exhibition of computer art, video, and popular print media (zines) by and for youth.

Goldfarb’s current projects include Global Tourette, a digital documentary and media exchange project that engages cultural and professional responses to Tourette Syndrome in the US, Argentina, Mexico, Germany and other contexts internationally. He is also working on Sense Ability: Fragments on Media Pedagogy, Digital Prosthetics and Assistive Technology explores the roles of visual culture and technology in shaping the concept of [dis]ability and in the development of techniques for assessing and supporting disabilities relating to the senses and communication. Sense Ability considers the role of visual culture, and these technologies in particular, in the emergence of sensory disability as a concept, and in the development of techniques for aiding and augmenting physical and sensory abilities since the late 19th century.


Paglen, Trevor
April 4th, 2007 under Grad Students, Uncategorized. [ Comments: none ]

Graduate Student, Geography Dept., UC Berkeley
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Trevor PaglenTrevor Paglen is an artist, writer, and experimental geographer working out of the Department of Geography at the University of California, Berkeley. His work involves deliberately blurring the lines between social science, contemporary art, and a host of even more obscure disciplines in order to construct unfamiliar, yet meticulously researched ways to interpret the world around us. His most recent projects involve close examinations of state secrecy, the California prison system, and the CIA’s practice of “extraordinary rendition.”


Goldberg, Ken
April 2nd, 2007 under Faculty, Uncategorized. [ Comments: none ]

Professor, Industrial Engineering and Operations Research (IEOR), Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), and School of Information (I-School), UC Berkeley
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Ken GoldbergKen Goldberg is an artist and professor of robotics at UC Berkeley. His work has been exhibited at the Whitney Biennial, Venice Biennale, Pompidou Center (Paris), Walker Art Center, Ars Electronica (Linz Austria), ZKM (Karlsruhe), ICC Biennale (Tokyo), Kwangju Biennale (Seoul), Artists Space, and The Kitchen (New York). He has held visiting positions at San Francisco ArtInstitute, MIT Media Lab, and Pasadena Art Center. Goldberg was awarded the National Science Foundation Young Investigator Award in 1994, the NSF Presidential Faculty Fellowship in 1995, and named IEEE Fellow in 2005. The Tribe, a short film he co-wrote, was selected for the Sundance and Tribeca Film Festivals. Ballet Mori, a multi-media project he developed to commemorate the 1906 Earthquake, was performed by the SF Ballet at the San Francisco Opera House.


Rinehart, Richard
February 22nd, 2007 under Faculty, Uncategorized. [ Comments: none ]

Digital Media Director and Adjunct Curator, UC Berkeley’s Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive

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Ricard Rinehart

Richard Rinehart has taught studio and theory of digital art at UC Berkeley since 2000 and has also been visiting faculty at the San Francisco Art Institute, UC Santa Cruz, San Francisco State University, Sonoma State University, and JFK University. Richard sits on the Executive Committee of the UC Berkeley Center for New Media and previously on the Board of Directors for New Langton Arts in San Francisco. Richard curates digital art exhibitions and programs for theBerkeley Art Museum, curated digital art for New Langton Arts for six years, and has also curated or juried for ISEA2006/ZeroOne, Creative Capital Foundation, Djerassi Foundation, Marin Arts Council, and San Jose City/Airport Project. Richard manages research projects in the area of digital culture, including the NEA-funded project, “Archiving the Avant Garde,” a national consortium of museums and artists distilling the essence of digital art in order to document and preserve it. Richard is also a working digital media artist whose work has been exhibited at Exit Art, New York; Henry Art Gallery, Seattle; GenArtSF; New Langton Arts; and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.

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Barsky, Brian A.
February 22nd, 2007 under Faculty, Uncategorized. [ Comments: none ]

Professor of Computer Science and Affiliate Professor of Optometry and Vision Science at the University of California at Berkeley; member, the Joint Graduate Group in Bioengineering, an interdisciplinary and inter-campus program, between UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco.

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Brian A. Barsky

Brian A. Barsky’s research interests include computer aided geometric design and modeling, interactive three-dimensional computer graphics, visualization in scientific computing, computer aided cornea modeling and visualization, medical imaging, and virtual environments for surgical simulation.

He is a co-author of the book An Introduction to Splines for Use in Computer Graphics and Geometric Modeling, co-editor of the book Making Them Move: Mechanics, Control, and Animation of Articulated Figures, and author of the book Computer Graphics and Geometric Modeling Using Beta-splines. He has published 120 technical articles in this field and has been a speaker at many international meetings.

He has been working in spline curve/surface representation and their applications in computer graphics and geometric modeling for many years. He is applying his knowledge of curve/surface representations as well as his computer graphics experience to improving videokeratography and corneal topographic mapping, forming a mathematical model of the cornea, and providing computer visualization of patients’ corneas to clinicians. This has applications in the design and fabrication of contact lenses, and in laser vision correction surgery. His current research, called Vision-Realistic Rendering is developing new three-dimensional rendering techniques for the computer generation of synthetic images that will simulate the vision of specific individuals based on their actual patient data using measurements from a instrument a Shack-Hartmann wavefront aberrometery device.


Roberts, John
February 2nd, 2007 under Grad Students, Uncategorized. [ Comments: none ]

Graduate student, Computer Science Dept., UC Santa Barbara
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John RobertsJohn Roberts is a doctoral student in Computer Science at UC Santa Barbara who currently holds a fellowship in the National Science Foundation IGERT (Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship program) at UCSB on Interactive Digital Media. His current research focuses on providing support for penbased interaction in video segmentation. Additional research interests include Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), especially as it intersects with Personal Information Management, and Ubiquitous Computing. Roberts took his M.S. in Computer Science from San Francisco State U. in 2005 with a thesis titled “Browsing in Large, Time-Dependent Data Set” (pdf). His co-authored papers (published or forthcoming) include: “Visualizations for Browsing in Large Datasets‿ (pdf); “Making Favorites Useful‿ (pdf); “Easy and Effective Virtual Tours on the World Wide Web‿ (The Society for Imaging Science and Technology, Internet Imaging VI. San Jose, CA, USA, January 18-20, 2005); “An Interface Markup Language for Web3D‿ (pdf); and “Histogram-Based Visualizations for Large, Time-Dependent Data Sets‿ (pdf).


Marshall, Nowell
February 2nd, 2007 under Grad Students, Uncategorized. [ Comments: none ]

Graduate Student, English Dept., UC Riverside
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Nowell Marshall Nowell Marshall is a doctoral student at the University of California, Riverside. His research interests include gothic and romantic literature, theories of corporeality and affect, pedagogy, and Web development. He has presented at national and international conferences and has two book chapters forthcoming, one addressing melancholia in William Blake’s Visions of the Daughters of Albion and another considering the intersections of aesthetics, post-9/11 xenophobia, and the monstrous body in the context of massively multiplayer online gaming.


Hertz, Garnet
February 2nd, 2007 under Grad Students, Uncategorized. [ Comments: none ]

Graduate Student, Visual Studies Program, UC Irvine

Garnet HertzGarnet Hertz is a Fulbright Scholar, Research Fellow at the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology, and is completing a Ph.D. in Visual Studies at the University of California Irvine. He also holds an MFA from the Arts Computation Engineering program at UCI and has completed UCI’s Critical Theory Emphasis. His current interests include the history, theory and practice of electro/mechanical art, computing, digital/internet art and robotics. He has shown his work at several notable international venues including Ars Electronica and SIGGRAPH and is also founder of Dorkbot-Socal, a monthly Los Angeles-based lecture series on electronic art. Popular press about his work is widespread, disseminating through 25 countries in publications including The New York Times, Wired News, I.D. Magazine, The Washington Post, Slashdot, NPR, USA Today, NBC, CBS, TV Tokyo, ZDTV and CNN Headline News.


Godwin, Mike
February 2nd, 2007 under Grad Students, Uncategorized. [ Comments: none ]

Graduate Student, Art Dept., UC Santa Barbara
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Mike Godwin Mike Godwin is a graduate student in the Art Studio department at UC Santa Barbara. He works primarily with two-dimensional media – drawing, painting, and programming. An amateur naturalist, archaeologist, and interplanetary geophysics buff, Mike does his best to let environmental history and the technology column inform his landscape paintings.



Ford, James
February 2nd, 2007 under Grad Students, Uncategorized. [ Comments: none ]

Graduate Student, School of Education, UC Santa Barbara
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James FordJames Ford is a doctoral student in education at UCSB. His general research interests are in writing studies, rhetoric, and technical communication. More specifically, he is interested in the way technology (namely augmented reality systems) impacts literacy practices, not only in educational settings, but in the workplace, and in common societal practices such as in political campaigns, tourism, and entertainment. His background is in technical communication and writing studies. He received his master’s degree in technical communication from Texas Tech University and began his studies at UCSB in 2004.
Currently, James is working with fellow Transliteracies Research Assistant Marc Breisinger on LEMMA. Along with researching applications of this technology in education, research is also being conducted in an attempt to better understand how users of enhanced reality environments represent their conceptual understanding of the abstract in 2D.


Forbes, Angus
February 2nd, 2007 under Grad Students, Uncategorized. [ Comments: none ]

Graduate Student, Media Arts & Technology Program, UC Santa Barbara

Angus Forbes
Angus Forbes is a graduate student in Media Arts and Technology (Visual and Spatial Arts emphasis) at UC Santa Barbara. His research interests include information visualization, augmented intelligence, artificial creativity, machine learning, and education. Angus was the founder of Synaesthetic Software, a company that develops music education software. He currently works for the National Geospatial Digital Archive as a programmer and interface designer. Angus is also the drummer for Chamisa Mesa, an experimental noise-rock band. In a former life, Angus was a PhD student in British and American Literature at the University of Utah.


Farman, Jason
February 2nd, 2007 under Grad Students, Uncategorized. [ Comments: none ]

Graduate Student, Theater Dept., UCLA
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Jason FarmanJason Farman is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Theater at UCLA. He is currently working on his dissertation entitled, “Pixilated Performances: Digital Bodies on the Digital Stage” (under the advisement of Sue-Ellen Case, N. Katherine Hayles, Mark Poster, and Haiping Yan). He is the recipient of the 2005-2006 Chancellor’s Fellowship for Dissertation Research from the University of California. He has also received the Thomas F. Marshall Grant from the American Society for Theatre Research (2005) and the Aaron Curtis Taylor Memorial Fellowship for Critical Studies in Theater from the School of Theater, Film, Television, and Digital Media at UCLA (2004).

Working at the intersection of digital media and performance, Jason’s work investigates the modes of bodily signification on digital stage spaces. He has presented his research at numerous conferences across the country. Recently, he was invited to present on the “Fresh Print: Emerging Scholars” panel at the Association for Theatre in Higher Education conference in San Francisco. His paper, “The Virtual Artaud: Computer Virus as Performance Art,” which was recently published, was derived from his dissertation chapter on digital bodies in performance. This chapter theorizes the modes of signification and proprioception surrounding the body and the computer in an era of fluid global borders, increased surveillance, and the “posthuman” body.

Jason is a co-editor for the journal Extensions: The Online Journal of Embodied Technology and also designed the website for the 2005 issue of the journal. He has designed several websites for colleges and universities, including UCLA’s new Center for Performance Studies.


Ellard, Donna Beth
February 2nd, 2007 under Grad Students, Uncategorized. [ Comments: none ]

Graduate Student, English Dept., UC Santa Barbara

Donna Beth EllardDonna Beth Ellard is a Ph.D. candidate in the English Department at UCSB. She is currently working on her dissertation, “A Death So Sublime: Theorizing Death and Dying in Medieval England.” Her interests include Anglo-Saxon Literature and Archaeology, Sublime Theory, Textuality Studies, and Arabic Language. In 2005, Donna Beth received a US State Department FLAS Title VI Fellowship to study Arabic at the American University in Cairo.


Breisinger, Mark
February 2nd, 2007 under Grad Students, Uncategorized. [ Comments: none ]

Visiting Graduate Student, Computer Science Dept., UC Santa Barbara, from the Ludwig – Maximilian – University Munich, Germany

Marc BreisingerMarc Breisinger’s current research project, LEMMA, tries to evaluate the benefits of computer assisted learning environments and the advantages that an exclusively available tutoring system might hold for the student. His further research interests cover computer graphics, virtual and augmented reality, human computer interaction and ubiquitous computing.



Blake, Nathan
February 2nd, 2007 under Grad Students, Uncategorized. [ Comments: none ]

Graduate Student, Visual Studies Program, UC Irvine

Nathan BlakeNathan Blake is a doctoral student in Visual Studies at UC Irvine. He received a master’s degree in Media Studies from The New School, writing a thesis on sensation, proprioception, and neuroaesthetics in relation to video. His areas of interest include televisual and cinematic crises and atrocity, apocalyptic imagery, combat tactical displays and video games, wound culture, intercorporeality, haptic vision and space, sensory substitution, mirror neurons, phantom limbs, somatophrenia, and posthuman ethics. He is cofounder and coeditor of the Visual Studies Journal, Octopus.


Walker, Alison
February 2nd, 2007 under Grad Students, Uncategorized. [ Comments: none ]

Graduate Student, English Department, UCLA

Alison WalkerAlison Walker is a doctoral student in the English Department at UCLA. She received a master’s degree in English from UC Riverside. Alison focuses her studies on theories of new media and medieval literature. Her areas of interest include explorations into pre- and postmodern reading culture, the Old English elegies, anchoritic literature, medievalism, and theories of affect. Alison recently published an article called “Destabilizing Order, Challenging History: Octavia Butler, Deleuze and Guattari, and Affective Beginnings” in the Spring 2005 issue of Extrapolation. Currently she is writing an article about the 1922 silent film, Häxan, forthcoming in a collection on medievalism. Alison co-authored an interactive fictional narrative called The Many Voices of Saint Caterina of Pedemonte.

Recently Alison worked with the Computer Science department at UCLA in creating a piece of locative interactive fiction called Nan0sphere.


Starosielski, Nicole
February 2nd, 2007 under Grad Students, Uncategorized. [ Comments: none ]

Graduate Student, Film and Media Studies Dept., UC Santa Barbara

Nicole Starosielski
Nicole Starosielski is a PhD student in Film and Media Studies at UCSB. Her current research interests include media historiography, perception and affect of digital media, and 3-D animation environments. She is also a media artist working in the integration of theory and production at the intersection of the humanities, sciences and arts. She has participated in the UCSB IGERT program in Interactive Digital Multimedia and is currently the research assistant for UCSB’s Center for Film, Television and New Media. Her recent projects include TechConnect (a mockumentary about technology and community), Bleach (an experimental ethnography on race, gender and family) and Minotour (a location-aware mobile tour application that weaves a spatial tale from Wikipedia).


Pressman, Jessica
February 2nd, 2007 under Grad Students, Uncategorized. [ Comments: none ]

Graduate Student, English Dept., UCLA
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Jessica PressmanJessica Pressman is a doctoral candidate in English at UCLA. She is writing a dissertation titled Digital Modernism: Making it New in New Media, which examines a prominent strategy in innovative online electronic literature: the “remediation” of literary modernism. She worked for the Electronic Literature Organization from 2002-2004, facilitating the “State of the Arts Symposium” and “Hyper_Text,” a yearlong reading series in electronic literature at the Hammer Museum.



Neves, Joshua
February 2nd, 2007 under Grad Students, Uncategorized. [ Comments: none ]

Graduate Student, Film and Media Studies Dept., UC Santa Barbara

Joshua NevesJoshua Neves is a PhD student in Film and Media Studies at UCSB. His present research interests focus on media events and media environments—from late 19th century electrical exhibitions to the contemporary Olympic Games. Joshua is currently involved in planning a graduate student conference—Media Fields—examining the epistemological, spatial and atmospheric interrelations of media spaces and disciplines, to be held at UCSB in April 2007.


Marshall, Kate
February 2nd, 2007 under Grad Students, Uncategorized. [ Comments: none ]

Graduate Student, English Dept., UC Los Angeles

Kate MarshallKate Marshall is a Ph.D. student in English at UCLA. Her dissertation, “Corridor: Communication, Fiction, and the Organization of the American Interior,” looks at the traffic conditions of communication in twentieth-century American fiction through their spatial and informational transit systems. While her recent work is focused on architecture and media in pre-Cold War fiction, she has published on nanotechnology and risk theory, and has co-developed several interactive research projects on elements of narrative. Before beginning her graduate work, Marshall edited and wrote for technology and new media publications in San Francisco and London.


Knight, Kimberly
February 2nd, 2007 under Grad Students, Uncategorized. [ Comments: none ]

Transliteracies Project Research Coordinator; Graduate Student, English Dept., UC Santa Barbara
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Kimberly KnightKimberly Knight is a doctoral student in Literature at UC Santa Barbara. Her research interests include literary and cultural theory; digital and information culture; new media literature and art; and twentieth century literature. She is currently writing her dissertation entitlted Media Epidemics: Viral Structures in Literature and New Media. Knight is a member of the development team of The Agrippa Files: an Online Archive of Agrippa (a book of the dead) and has served as the RA for the Transcriptions Studio at UCSB. She is also the Flash designer and co-author of the Transliteracies History of the Book project, “In the Beginning Was the Word” (forthcoming).


Huber, William
February 2nd, 2007 under Grad Students, Uncategorized. [ Comments: none ]

Graduate Student, Art and Media History / Theory and Criticism Program, UC San Diego

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Chin, Robin
February 2nd, 2007 under Grad Students, Uncategorized. [ Comments: none ]

Graduate Student, English Dept. UC Santa Barbara

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Bulger, Monica
February 2nd, 2007 under Grad Students, Uncategorized. [ Comments: none ]

Graduate Student, Gevirtz Graduate School of Education, UC Santa Barbara

Monica BulgerMonica Bulger is a doctoral student at the Gevirtz Graduate School of Education and Director of the Bren Graduate Writing Center. Her research interests include educational technologies, online literacy, and student engagement. She currently works with the Technology in Education research initiative, an interdisciplinary team that studies the impacts of technology on student learning.



Aytes, Ayhan
February 2nd, 2007 under Grad Students, Uncategorized. [ Comments: none ]

Graduate Student, Communications Dept., UC San Diego

Ayhan Aytes Ayhan Aytes is a Visual Media researcher with a special focus on ethno-cultural interfaces. His recent project, “Remembrance of Media Past,” explores various interaction models for alternative cultural representations in digital media, influenced by visual analysis of pre-modern media such as illuminated manuscripts, maps and miniature books. His photography and multimedia works were recently exhibited in a joint project in Istanbul, “Reading the City of Signs: Istanbul: Revealed or Mystified.” He holds a master’s degree in Communication Design from the Institute of Design in Chicago. He is currently a doctoral student in the Department of Communication at the University of California San Diego.


Warner, William B.
February 2nd, 2007 under Faculty, Uncategorized. [ Comments: none ]

Chair and Professor of the UC Santa Barbara English Department, and Director of the UC Digital Cultures Project
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William B. WarnerWilliam Warner’s central interests include eighteenth-century British and American literature and cultural studies, the novel, literary and cultural theory, media studies, and law and literature (free speech and censorship). He is the author of Reading Clarissa: The Struggles of Interpretation (Yale Univ. Press, 1979); Chance and the Text of Experience: Freud, Nietzsche and Shakespeare’s Hamlet (Cornell Univ. Press, 1986); and Licensing Entertainment: the Elevation of Novel Reading in Eighteenth Century Britain (Univ. of California Press, 1998). Professor Warner is the founder and director of the Digital Cultures Project (a Univ. of California Multi-Campus Research Group) and a participant in the UC Santa Barbara Transcriptions Project. He is currently at work on a book on media of the Enlightenment period in relation to contemporary information-technology culture. Professor Warner joined UC Santa Barbara isn 1997. He received his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in 1977, and has also taught at the State University of New York, Buffalo.


Rose, Mark
February 2nd, 2007 under Faculty, Uncategorized. [ Comments: none ]

Associate Vice Chancellor and Professor of English, UC Santa Barbara
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Mark RoseMark Rose is Professor in the English Department and Associate Vice Chancellor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he has taught since 1977. He received a B.Litt. from Oxford University in 1963 and a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1967 and has taught at Yale University and the University of Illinois as well as at UCSB. From 1989 to 1994 he was Director of the systemwide University of California Humanities Research Institute, located on the Irvine campus. He is the author of many books on subjects ranging from Shakespeare to Science Fiction as well as of Authors and Owners: The Invention of Copyright (Harvard Univ. Press, 1993), which was a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award. He also frequently serves as a consultant and expert in litigation involving allegations of copyright infringement. His current interests include both Shakespeare and the history and theory of intellectual property. He was a member of the Digital Cultures Project, a University of California Multi-Campus Research Group in 2000-2005.


Pasternack, Carol Braun
February 2nd, 2007 under Faculty, Uncategorized. [ Comments: none ]

Associate Professor of English and Medieval Studies Program, UC Santa Barbara
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Carol Braun PasternackCarol Braun Pasternack is Associate Professor in the English Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1983, and her central interests include Old and Middle English literature; history of the English language; oral and textual theory; and gender in the Middle Ages. She has served as Chair and Co-Chair of the Medieval Studies Program at UC Santa Barbara, and she is the author of The Textuality of Old English Poetry (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1995), as well as articles on oral and textual theory, and gender and sexuality. In addition, she has co-edited three collections of essays, Vox intexta: Orality and Textuality in the Middle Ages with A. N. Doane (Univ. of Wisconsin Press, 1991), Gender and Difference in the Middle Ages with Sharon Farmer (Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2003), and Sex and Sexuality in Anglo-Saxon England with Lisa M. C. Weston (Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2004). Pasternack is currently at work on a book titled Sex and Text in Anglo-Saxon England. She is a participant in the UC Santa Barbara Medieval Studies Program and Transcriptions Project.


Parks, Lisa
February 2nd, 2007 under Faculty, Uncategorized. [ Comments: none ]

Associate Professor of Film Studies and Center for Information Technology and Society Humanities Coordinator, UC Santa Barbara
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Lisa ParksLisa Parks is the author of Cultures in Orbit: Satellites and the Televisual (Duke Univ. Press 2005) and co-editor of Planet TV: A Global Television Studies Reader (NYU Press 2002) and of Red Noise: Television Studies and Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Duke Univ. Press forthcoming). She has published in numerous books and in journals such as Screen, Television and New Media, Convergence: A Journal of New Media Technologies, Ecumene: A Journal of Cultural Geography, and Social Identities. She won a Distinguished Teaching Award at UCSB in 2002 and has taught as a visiting professor in the School of Cinema-TV at USC and at the Institute for Graduate Study in the Humanities in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Parks teaches courses such as global media, television history, television and new media theory, video art and activism, war and media, advanced film analysis, and feminist media criticism. She is also co-producer of Experiments in Satellite Media Arts, a DVD produced with Ursula Biemann at the Makrolab in 2002, and is a co-investigator in several international funded projects including the Missing Links/Oxygen Media Research Project (UCSB-Utrecht) and the Transcultural Geography Project (Zurich-Cologne-Ljubljana). Parks sits on the editorial boards of the Velvet Light Trap e-journal and on the advisory board of the Center for Information Technology and Society at UCSB, where she is also taking on the new role of Humanities Coordinator. She is currently writing a new book called “Mixed Signals: Media Technologies, Geography, and Mobility.”


Newfield, Christopher
February 2nd, 2007 under Faculty, Uncategorized. [ Comments: none ]

Professor of English, UC Santa Barbara
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Christopher NewfieldChristopher Newfield is Professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He received his Ph.D. in American literature from Cornell University in 1988, and his central interests include American culture after 1830, with particular attention to fiction since 1940; race; sexuality; affect; crime; California; and corporate culture. Professor Newfield’s most recent book is Ivy and Industry: Business and the Making of the American University, 1880-1980 (Duke Univ. Press, 2004). He earlier published The Emerson Effect: Individualism and Submission in America (Univ. of Chicago Press, 1996) as well as co-edited Mapping Multiculturalism (Univ. of Minnesota Press, 1996) and After Political Correctness: The Humanities and Society in the 1990s (Westview, 1995). Currently, he is at work on two further books: The Empowerment Wars, which explores the literature, management theory, and everyday life of cubicle dwellers in corporate America; and Starting Up, Starting Over, an eyewitness account of the underside of the “New Economy” in Southern California. He is a faculty member of UC Santa Barbara’s interdisciplinary American Cultures and Global Contexts Center, as well as a participant in the NEH-funded Teaching with Technology project at UCSB titled Transcriptions: Literature and the Culture of Information, for which he has taught courses on Silicon Valley culture.


Mohr, John
February 2nd, 2007 under Faculty, Uncategorized. [ Comments: none ]

Associate Professor of Sociology; Associate Dean of the Graduate Division, UC Santa Barbara
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Noah Wardrip-FruinJohn Mohr researches and teaches organizational theory, the sociology of culture, historical analysis, the welfare state, and qualitative/quantitative methods of research at UC Santa Barbara. Originally trained as an organizational sociologist, Mohr seeks to bring together the theoretical concerns of post-structuralist semiotic theory with network based mathematical approaches to the analysis of relational systems. He is particularly interested in the use of dual mode styles of formal analysis (such as lattice analysis and correspondence analysis) to link systems of discourse to systems of practice. He serves on the Editorial Boards of both Poetics: Journal of Empirical Research on Literature, the Media, and the Arts, and Theory and Society. Mohr has served as Associate Dean of the Graduate Division at UCSB, in which capacity he was also chair of the UC-AGEP (Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate) Steering committee. During his tenure as chair, the UC-AGEP successfully applied for and received a 5 year, $10 million extension of its NSF funding. Mohr also served as one of three PIs on the UC-DIGSSS (Diversity Initiative for Graduate Study in the Social Sciences) NSF grant, which provides three years of funding ($900,000) for social science diversity efforts at UCSB, UCLA and UC-Berkeley. In addition, Mohr initiated the UCSB Graduate Research Internship Program (GRIP).


Meadow, Mark
February 2nd, 2007 under Faculty, Uncategorized. [ Comments: none ]

Associate Professor of History of Art and Architecture, UC Santa Barbara; Co-Director of UC Microcosms Project

Mark Meadow is a specialist in Northern European art of the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries, with particular interests in the histories of rhetoric and collecting. The UC Microcosms Project he co-directs is an at once expansive and concrete investigation of how “objects of knowledge” can be collected in an organized way that makes them knowable. Concerned both with the prehistory of the database (Renaissance “memory theaters” and current information technology, Microcosms explores the material “economy of knowledge” in the University of California system as a paradigm of how knowledge technologies past and present construct the shape of the world we “know.” Meadow has received Getty, Kress and Mellon Fellowships and is a member of the UC Digital Cultures Project Multi-Campus Research Group. He has published on Dürer, Aertsen and Bruegel, and edited Rhetoric-Rhetoriqueurs-Rederijkers (1995); Pieter Bruegel the Elder, the 1996 volume of the Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek; and the critical edition of Symon Andriessoon’s 1550 Nederduytsche adagia ofte spreeckwoorden (2003). He is the author of Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s Netherlandish Proverbs and the Practice of Rhetoric (2002).


Legrady, George
February 2nd, 2007 under Faculty, Uncategorized. [ Comments: none ]

Professor, Media Arts and Technology Program, and Art Dept., UC Santa Barbara
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George LegradyGeorge Legrady is Professor of Interactive Media at the UCSB. He holds a joint appointment in the Media Arts and Technology Graduate Program, and the Department of Art. His current research addresses data collection, data processing methodologies, and data visualization presented simultaneously in interactive installations and the internet. His three active projects are Pockets Full of Memories, which consists of the public contributing to a database data that is visually organized by the Kohonen self-organizing mapping algorithm in a 2Dimensional map; Making Visible the Invisible, a project that analyzes and visually maps daily changes in what the public is reading, tracked through the circulation of books going in and out of the Seattle Public Library; and Global Collaborative Visual Mapping Archive (GCVMA), which addresses methods of wireless cellular technological telecommunications devices, methods of data assembly, and the visual interface by which the images and their data are to be accessed and interacted with. He is Co-Principal Investigator of the National Science Foundation’s Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) Interactive Digital Multimedia (IDM) Program at UCSB.


Kearney, James
February 2nd, 2007 under Faculty, Uncategorized. [ Comments: none ]

Assistant Professor of English, UC Santa Barbara

James Kearney is an Assistant Professor in the English Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 2001 and taught at Yale University from 2002 to 2006. His research interests include early modern drama, poetry, and prose; Reformation and Counter-Reformation thought; colonial discourse and postcolonial theory; and the history of the book. He has published articles on Shakespeare and Spenser and is currently completing a book project entitled The Incarnate Text: Imagining the Book in Reformation England, an exploration of the central role that the material book played in the cultural imagination of Reformation England. The manuscript investigates early modern controversies concerning materiality from the relic and the sacrament to the trinket and the fetish in order to trace a partial history of the book within the crisis of representation brought about by the Reformation. Professor Kearney is affiliated with the Early Modern Center, the Renaissance Studies Program, and the Transcriptions Project at UCSB.


Huang, Yunte
February 2nd, 2007 under Faculty, Uncategorized. [ Comments: none ]

Director of Consortium for Literature, Theory, and Culture and Associate Professor of English, UC Santa Barbara
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Yunte HuangYunte Huang came to the U.S. in 1991 after graduating from Peking University with a B.A. in English. He received his Ph.D. from the Poetics Program at SUNY-Buffalo in 1999 and taught as an Assistant Professor of English at Harvard University from 1999-2003. He is the author of Transpacific Displacement: Ethnography, Translation, and Intertextual Travel in Twentieth-Century American Literature (Univ. of California Press, 2002) and Shi: A Radical Reading of Chinese Poetry (Roof Books, 1997), and the translator into Chinese of Ezra Pound’s The Pisan Cantos. He is currently working on two book projects, “The Deadly Space Between”: Literature and History in the Age of Transpacific Imagination and Poetry and Globalization: Essays in the Poetics of Medium and Translation. He is Director of the UCSB Consortium for Literature, Theory, and Culture; an affiliated faculty member of UCSB’s interdisciplinary American Cultures and Global Contexts Center; as well as a participant in the NEH-funded Teaching with Technology project at UCSB titled Transcriptions: Literature and the Culture of Information.


Höllerer, Tobias
February 2nd, 2007 under Faculty, Uncategorized. [ Comments: none ]

Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science; Co-Director, Four Eyes Laboratory, UC Santa Barbara
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Tobias HöllererTobias Höllerer’s research interests lie in the area of novel user interfaces, sometimes dubbed Post-WIMP (the Windows-Icons-Menus-Pointing paradigm of conventional desktop graphical user interfaces). Within this area, his interests span several fields of human-computer interaction and experimental systems: augmented reality, virtual reality and other 3D user interfaces; wearable and ubiquitous computing and multimedia information systems; and computer graphics and visualization. Höllerer completed his Ph.D. thesis at Columbia University in 2004 on User Interfaces for Mobile Augmented Reality Systems, and has co-authored many articles on augmented-reality technology and vision-based interfaces.


Green, Judith
February 2nd, 2007 under Faculty, Uncategorized. [ Comments: none ]

Professor, Gevirtz Graduate School of Education, UC Santa Barbara
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Judith GreenJudith Green’s research interests include ethnography, discourse processes in reading in educational settings, constructing literate communities within classrooms, and language interaction and social organization (LISO). How do children gain access to school knowledge, for example? What counts as literacy and learning in school settings? How is knowledge socially constructed? What opportunities for learning are constructed in classrooms, and who has access to these opportunities? How does the theory you select shape your research questions, the methods you use, and the claims that you can make about a phenomenon? As a member of the Santa Barbara Classroom Discourse Group, a collaborative community of teacher ethnographers, student ethnographers and university-based ethnographers, Green has been engaged in exploring such questions guided by theories on the social construction of knowledge construction to help make visible how teachers write theory with students and how theory informs practice.

Green, who received her M.A. in Educational Psychology from California State University, Northridge, and her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, has taught for more than 3 decades across levels of schooling (K-6, higher education). With colleagues, she has published articles on ethnographic research in research handbooks for the National Council of Teachers of English, the American Educational Research Association, and the International Reading Association. She has also published research based books and articles on classroom discourse and on the social construction of literate practices. Her most recent research focuses on how classroom practices support access to students across academic disciplines.


Bimber, Bruce
February 2nd, 2007 under Faculty, Uncategorized. [ Comments: none ]

Director of UCSB Center for Information Technology and Society and Associate Professor of Political Science and Communication at UC Santa Barbara
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Bruce BimberBruce Bimber is founder and director of the UCSB Center for Information Technology and Society (CITS). His research examines the relationship between evolving information technology and changes in human behavior, especially in the domains of political organization, collective action, social capital, and political deliberation. His book Information and American Democracy: Technology in the Evolution of Political Power (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2003) won the Don K. Price Award for Best Book on Science, Technology and Politics. His book Campaigning Online: The Internet in U.S. Elections (Oxford Univ. Press, 2003, with Richard Davis) won the McGannon Communication Policy Award for social and ethical relevance in communication policy research. Bimber is also author of The Politics of Expertise in Congress: The Rise and Fall of the Office of Technology Assessment (SUNY Press, 1996), and of articles dealing with technology and politics. He has a doctorate in Political Science from MIT, and a bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford. Prior to joining the UCSB faculty, he worked for RAND in Washington, D.C., in a policy analysis department contracted to provide advice to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.


Bergel, Giles
February 2nd, 2007 under Faculty, Uncategorized. [ Comments: none ]

Lecturer and Arnhold Postdoctoral Fellow in Early Modern Literature and Media Technology, English Department, UC Santa Barbara

Giles BergelGiles Bergel is Arnhold Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer in the Department of English at University of California, Santa Barbara. He received his PhD from Queen Mary, University of London in 2004, and works in the field of book history, conceived broadly as the history of texts and their readers, with a specialism in eighteenth-century cheap print. He has published an article in Worlds of Print: Diversity in the Book Trade, edited by John Hinks and Catherine Armstrong (Oak Knoll/British Library, 2006) in the British Book Trade History Conference’s ‘Print Networks’ series, on print and provincial civic formation in the mid-eighteenth century. His current projects include a study of issues in the mark-up of engraved lettering and facsimile script, and an electronic archive of the ballad The Wandering Jew’s Chronicle, in association with the Early Modern Center’s English Ballad Archive, at UCSB.


Almeroth, Kevin C.
February 2nd, 2007 under Faculty, Uncategorized. [ Comments: none ]

Professor, Department of Computer Science, UC Santa Barbara; Associate Director, Center for Information Technology and Society; Media Arts and Technology Program; Technology Management Program; and Computer Engineering Program, UC Santa Barbara
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Kevin C. AlmerothKevin C. Almeroth is currently a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of California in Santa Barbara where his main research interests include computer networks and protocols, wireless networking, multicast communication, large-scale multimedia systems, and mobile applications. At UCSB, Dr. Almeroth is the Associate Director of the Center for Information Technology and Society (CITS), a founding faculty member of the Media Arts and Technology (MAT) Program, Technology Management Program (TMP), and the Computer Engineering (CE) Program. He is also a member of the UC Transliteracies Project. In the research community, Dr. Almeroth has authored more than 125 refereed papers. He is the chair of the Steering Committee for the ACM Network and System Support for Digital Audio and Video (NOSSDAV) workshop; on the Editorial Board of IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE Network, ACM Computers in Entertainment, and ACM Computer Communications Review; has co-chaired a number of conferences and workshops including the IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), IEEE Conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON), IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Management of Multimedia Networks and Services (MMNS), the International Workshop On Wireless Network Measurement (WiNMee), ACM Sigcomm Workshop on Challenged Networks (CHANTS), the Network Group Communication (NGC) workshop, and the Global Internet Symposium; and has been on the program committee of numerous conferences. Dr. Almeroth is the former chair of the Internet2 Working Group on Multicast, and is active in several working groups of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). He also serves on the boards of directors and/or advisory boards of several startups. Dr. Almeroth has also served as an expert witness in a number of interesting patent cases. He is a Member of the ACM and a Senior Member of the IEEE.


Wardrip-Fruin, Noah
February 2nd, 2007 under Faculty, Uncategorized. [ Comments: none ]

Assistant Professor of Communication, UC San Diego
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Noah Wardrip-FruinNoah Wardrip-Fruin, who will join the Communication Department at UC San Diego (appointment pending), is one of the leaders in the field of electronic literature and new media arts. After receiving his M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Brown in 2003 and while serving as one of Brown’s Traveling Scholars, he co-edited both The New Media Reader (MIT Press 2003) and First Person: New Media as Story, Performance, and Game (MIT Pres, 2004), which have been influential in establishing the field of new media studies. Wardrip-Fruin is a member of the Board of Directors of the Electronic Literature Organization. His many collaborative works of electronic literature include Gray Matters, The Impermanence Agent, the installation Talking Cure, and the Cave piece Screen. He is also a founding member of the well-known electronic literature and new media group-blog, Grand Text Auto. Currently, he is co-editing Computer Lib/Dream Machines (MIT Press, forthcoming).


Tobias, James
February 2nd, 2007 under Faculty, Uncategorized. [ Comments: none ]

Assistant Professor of English, University of California, Riverside
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James TobiasJames Tobias’s research interests include several areas crucial to the study of digital media and contemporary culture. He analyzes the audio, visual, and gestural dimensions of time-based media works in terms of the most appropriate cultural and critical contexts. He is particularly interested in methodologies and frameworks for the analysis of comparative media, especially in such terms as might contribute to the understanding of interactive networked forms of globalizing digital media. His research, conference presentations, work as interaction designer and installation artist, and scholarly publications have emphasized identity construction at the interface of human and computer, the public and private, the local and the networked. Tobias has been invited to present a public talk on new media and digital media culture at the University of California, Berkeley, in February 2005, sponsored by UCB’s Center for New Media. He will have two essays in cybercultural studies published in 2005 in two separate collections from the academic publisher Rodopi, based in Amsterdam. Tobias also has been awarded a residential research fellowship at the University of California, Irvine, for winter quarter 2005. The electronic journal established by Tobias for undergrad writing at UCR is now online.


Sack, Warren
February 2nd, 2007 under Faculty, Uncategorized. [ Comments: none ]

Assistant Professor of Film and Digital Media, UC Santa Cruz
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Warren SackWarren Sack is a software designer and media theorist whose work explores theories and designs for online public space and public discussion. He is currently Assistant Professor of Film and Digital Media at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he has established the Social Computing Lab research group. He also serves as an affiliated faculty member of the Computer Science Department as well as a member of the faculty of the Digital Arts/New Media M.F.A. Program. Before joining the faculty at UC Santa Cruz in the Film & Digital Media Department, Sack was Assistant Professor at UC Berkeley, where he directed the Social Technologies Group. He has also been a research scientist at the MIT Media Laboratory, and a research collaborator in the Interrogative Design Group at the MIT Center for Advanced Visual Studies. He earned a B.A. from Yale and an S.M. and Ph.D. from the MIT Media Laboratory. He is a member of the Digital Cultures Project and UC DARnet University of California Multi-Campus Research Groups. Some of Sack’s projects relevant to online reading include Agonistics: A Language Game , Conversation Map, and Translation Map (with Sawad Brooks).


Poster, Mark
February 2nd, 2007 under Faculty, Uncategorized. [ Comments: none ]

Professor of History, Film and Media Studies, and the Critical Theory Emphasis, UC Irvine
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Mark PosterProfessor Mark Poster teaches at the University of California, Irvine, in the History Department, the Department of Film and Media Studies, and the Critical Theory Emphasis. He has courtesy appointments in the Department of Information and Computer Science and the Department of Comparative Literature and he served on the Advisory Committee of the Digital Cultures Project, a University of California Multi-Campus Research Group. Some of his recent books are: What’s the Matter with the Internet? (Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2001), The Second Media Age (Blackwell, 1995), The Mode of Information (Univ. of Chicago Press, 1990) and Cultural History and Postmodernity (Columbia Univ. Press, 1997). A collection of pieces old and new with a critical introduction by Stanley Aronowitz is published as The Information Subject (G & B Arts International, 2001). He is continuing to study the social and cultural theory of electronically mediated information with a book in preparation to be titled Information Please: Politics and Culture in the Age of Digital Machines.


Nideffer, Robert F.
February 2nd, 2007 under Faculty, Uncategorized. [ Comments: none ]

Associate Professor of Studio Art & Information and Computer Science, UC Irvine
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Robert F. NidefferRobert F. 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 Ph.D. in Sociology, and is an Associate Professor in Studio Art and Information and Computer Science at UC Irvine, where he also serves as an Affiliated Faculty in the Visual Studies Program, and the Art, Computation and Engineering (ACE) Program. Nideffer has participated in a number of national and international online and offline exhibitions, speaking engagements, and panels for a variety of professional conferences, workshops and events. Nideffer is a member of both the UC Digital Cultures Project and UC DARnet (Digital Arts Research Network) Multi-Campus Research Groups. Since 2000 he has been hard at play initiating an Academic Specialization in Game Culture and Technology, and serving as founding director of the Game Culture & Technology Lab.


Mateas, Michael
February 2nd, 2007 under Faculty, Uncategorized. [ Comments: none ]

Assistant Professor of Computer Science, UC Santa Cruz
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Lyman, Peter
February 2nd, 2007 under Faculty, Uncategorized. [ Comments: none ]

Professor of Political Science, School of Information Management and Systems, UC Berkeley
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Peter LymanPeter Lyman received his BA from Stanford University in Philosophy, M.A. from Berkeley in Political Science, and Ph.D. in Political Science from Stanford. His research and teaching interests include e-government and e-governance, the enthnographic study of online social relationships and communities, and an ethnography of technology transfer from research communities to business. Lyman currently serves on the editorial boards of American Behavioral Scientist, the Journal of Electronic Publishing, and Information Technology, Education and Society. He is a member of the Board of Directors of Sage Publishing, Inc., and has previously served on the Board of Directors of EDUCOM, the Research Libraries Group (RLG), The Babbage Institute, the Technical Advisory Board of the Commission on Preservation and Access, the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR), and the Internet Archive. One of his recent projects was How Much Information 2003?, a study of how much new information is being produced. In 2005, Lyman and a team he leads were awarded $3.3 million by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation to study “digital kids.��? The study will document how youth from age 10 to 20 are using new digital media to create and exchange knowledge, assess how these phenomenon affect learning, and encourage use of their conclusions for the improvement of schools (news release). Lyman served on the Advisory Committee of the Digital Cultures Project, a University of California Multi-Campus Research Group.


Goble, Mark
February 2nd, 2007 under Faculty, Uncategorized. [ Comments: none ]

Assistant Professor of English, UC Irvine
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Mark Goble received his Ph. D. from Stanford University, where he specialized in U.S. literature after 1865, with concentrations in film and media studies, American cultural history, and poetry and poetics. His present research examines a range of connections between literature and media, focusing on scenes of communication in American texts from the late novels of Henry James to Hollywood cinema of the 1930s. Currently at work on a manuscript entitled Beautiful Circuits: The Mediated Life in America, 1870-1940, he is also interested in the history of recorded sound, modernism and media aesthetics, and popular cultures of technology. His articles include “Cameo Appearances; or, When Gertrude Stein Checks In to Grand Hotel” Modern Language Quarterly 62: 2 (June 2001) and “‘Our Country’s Black and White Past’: Film and the Figures of History in Frank O’Hara,” American Literature 71: 1 (March 1999). Goble teaches courses on U. S. poetry and visual culture, film and media theory, and on figures including James, Wharton, Stein, Williams, and the New York School. He was a member of the Digital Cultures Project, a University of California Multi-Campus Research Group.


Gitelman, Lisa
February 2nd, 2007 under Uncategorized. [ Comments: none ]

Associate Professor and Director of the Program in Media Studies, Catholic University in Washington, DC.
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Lisa Gitelman
Lisa Gitelman holds a doctorate in English and Comp. Lit. from Columbia and is a former documentary editor with the Thomas A. Edison Papers at Rutgers University. Her work focuses on the histories of nonprint media as points of access to culturally and historically specific popular ontologies of printedness, reading and writing. She has studied shorthand alphabets, typewriters, phonographs, cinema, and the early Internet. Her publications include Scripts, Grooves, and Writing Machines: Representing Technology in the Edison Era (Stanford 1999) and a co-edited collection, New Media, 1740-1915 (MIT 2002). Her new book, Always Already New: Media, History, and the Data of Culture, is forthcoming in 2006.


Daniel, Sharon
February 2nd, 2007 under Faculty, Uncategorized. [ Comments: none ]

Associate Professor of Film and Digital Media, University of California, Santa Cruz; member of University of California Digital Arts Research Network (DARnet)
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Sharon DanielSharon Daniel teaches classes in digital media theory and practice. Her research involves collaborations with local and on-line communities, which exploit information and communications technologies as new sites for “public art.” Daniel’s role as an artist is that of “context provider,” — assisting communities, collecting their stories, soliciting their opinions on politics and social justice, and building the online archives and interfaces that make this data available across social, cultural and economic boundaries. Daniel’s work has been exhibited internationally at museums, festivals including the Corcoran Biennial, the University of Paris, the Dutch Electronic Arts Festival, Ars Electronica and the Lincoln Center Festival as well as on the Internet. Her essays have been published in books and professional journals such as Leonardo and the Sarai Reader. Daniel has recently presented “Improbablevoices.net” at SFCamerawork in San Francisco, the Fundacion Telefonica in Buenos Aires and at the conference “contested commons” in New Delhi, India. Her current research is supported by grants from the Daniel Langlois Foundation and the Creative Work Fund.


Case, Sue-Ellen
February 2nd, 2007 under Faculty, Uncategorized. [ Comments: none ]

Professor and Chair of Critical Studies, Department of Theater, UCLA

Sue-Ellen CaseSue-Ellen Case joined UCLA in 2001 as Professor and Chair of Critical Studies in the Theater Department. A past editor of Theatre Journal, Professor Case has published widely in the fields of German theatre, feminism and theatre, performance theory, and lesbian critical theory. She has published over thirty articles in journals such as Theatre Journal, Modern Drama, differences, and Theatre Research International and in many anthologies of critical works. Her books include Feminism and Theatre (1988), The Domain-Matrix: Performing Lesbian at the End of Print Culture (1997), and Playing Politics: The Staging of Civil Affairs (forthcoming). Professor Case has been an invited professor in residence at Swarthmore College, Stockholm University, and the National University of Singapore. Her work has received several national awards. She was on the Advisory Committee for the Digital Cultures Project, a University of California Multi-Campus Research Group.


 


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I'm not persuaded that information or capital, and these two things see each other when they look in the mirror, routes around us; it just feels that way. All day long, it passes through those of us in the abstract class (and this may be what's meant by the content-free term "middle class"; no wonder it promises its own universality). It is more or less what we do all the time, while we are doing other things, "While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along." This is the truth of globalization, or of our participation in the world-system. And yet we have little experience of it, of the feeling-which-is-not-one of being a node in the great circulation. This is the fact which I take to be at the missing heart of late modernity: a degree of abstraction so great that, among other things, the abstract becomes representational.
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