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2021 WINNER
ELECTRONIC LITERATURE ORGANIZATION
MAVERICK AWARD
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Interaction Design, Malmö University, 2012
Concentration: Digital Poetics, Electronic Literature
Dissertation: Digital Rhetoric and Poetics: Signifying Strategies in Electronic Literature
MFA, Literary Arts, Brown University, 2004
Concentration: Electronic Writing
Thesis: A “History” of “Art”
CURRENT AND RECENT
Academic Positions
Associate Professor — Winona State University
Creative Digital Media, Mass Communication
Research
Research Interests: digital culture, electronic literature, digital rhetorics and poetics, meme culture, glitch aesthetics
Senior Research Associate, York University Augmented Reality Lab
Research Affiliate, University of Bergen Electronic Literature Research Group
08/2013 – 06/2014 Researcher University of Bergen, LLE CLARINO (Common Language Research and Technology Infrastructure, Norway), ELMCIP (Electronic Literature as a Model of Creativity and Innovation)
07/2010 – 06/2013 Electronic Literature as a Model of Creativity and Innovation in Practice Co-Investigator, Co-Editor — Anthology of European Electronic Literature
06/2012 – (ongoing) Consortium for Electronic Literature (CELL): Database Interoperability Initiative Participating Researcher
Professional / Editorial
Board of Directors, Electronic Literature Organization 2004-2016
(http://eliterature.org/)
Editorial Board, Rhizomes; Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge
(http://www.rhizomes.net/)
06/2017 Co-editor, Rhizomes 32: Meme Culture, Alienation Capital, and Gestic Play
Publications
On Codework: A Phenomenology of an Anti-Genre
Crossing Borders, Crossing Genres: New Literary Hybrids in the Age of Multimedia Expression, ed. Marcel Cornis-Pope.
(John Benjamins 2014)
My Molly (Departed)
(Free Dogma Press 2014)
Conferences, Exhibitions, Talks
More than Meets AI — Worth Ryder Art Gallery, University of California Berkeley
Group Exhibition
Work Exhibited: Introducing Lary: The San Biagio Frescoes of Pietro Golamuto
Electronic Literature Organization Conference – Coimbra, Portugal
Panel: AIwriting: Text to Image Generation as a Mode of Digital Narrative
Presentation: Who’s the Dummy?: A Poetics of Medically Enforced Ventriloquism
ISEA – Paris, France
Panel: AIwriting: Text to Image Generation as a Mode of Digital Narrative
Weird Media — Laird Norton Gallery, Winona State University
Group Exhibition — International Digital Media Arts Association
Work Exhibited: Alocutive Interpolation
Electronic Literature Organization Conference – University of Central Florida
Performance: Quarantine Quatrains (with Scott Rettberg)
Electronic Literature Organization Conference – University College Cork, Cork Ireland
Performance: The Limerick Diet (with Scott Rettberg)
Artist Talk: The Limerick Diet (with Scott Rettberg)
Invited Talk – University of Bergen, Norway
Presentation: A Meme is not a Meme until it is a Meme
Reading Practices in the Digital Age – Sofia University, Sofia Bulgaria
Keynote: Reading Beyond Writing: The Post-Digital Literary Condition
Electronic Literature Organization Conference – University of Quebec, Montreal
Panel: Disruptive Media
Presentation: Dank Memes and Tactical Media
Panel: Congress of Fakery (with Davin Heckman, Mark Marino, and Rob Witting)
Summer Publishing Institute – University of St. Thomas, St. Paul MN
Panel: Electronic Publishing
Presentation: Publishing(?) in the Expanded Field of Electronic Literary Works
CCCC – Kansas City
Presentation: Writing and Reading Fake News
Thinking Through the Digital in Literature – Linköping University, Sweden
Presentation: Meme Culture as Alienation Capital and Gestic Play
Writers on Writing Series
Brown University Literary Arts
Interrupt Festival 4
Brown University
Clickbait Performance
Shapeshifting Texts
Group Exhibition / International Conference on Digital Media and Textuality / Bremen, Germany
International Digital Media Arts Association – Winona State University US
Presentation: Vernacular Gestus: Meme Culture and Alienation Capital
You/I
Group Exhibition / Paul Watkins Gallery