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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, disability 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

International Digital Media Arts Association – Winona MN, USA
Keynote Address: Primal Screens: Wildness, Failure, Media of Refusal

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