Welcome.
This website is meant to offer you a quick overview of my current research and teaching assignments.
What I'm up to:
Writing, writing(coding) {, writing.
Going to the Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI) in University of Victoria, BC. Enrolled in SEASR Analytics. 6 - 10 June 2013.
Accepted invitation to the Conference on Rhetorical Theory, University of South Carolina. I'm in the "Programming" working group. 10 - 12 October 2013.
On leave 'til fall 2013!
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Past activities:
Recently published: Article titled "From GUI to NUI: Microsoft's Kinect and the Politics of the (Body as) Interface." In Present Tense: A Journal of Rhetoric and Society.
In NC State's Results Magazine, in the essay, "Amazing Space," I was interviewed about my research in digital rhetoric and -media. The section about my work is titled "Hello World."
Recently published: essay and digital work, "Tunnel Vision: A Cybertextual Interpretation of Mark Strand's 'The Tunnel'." With David Gruber. Hyperrhiz: New Media Cultures, Issue 09.
Recently published: presentation from "town hall" at this summer's Computers and Writing conference titled "Programming is the New Ground of Writing."
Embarking on a collaboration with sculptor Dana Raymond, Lee Cherry, and Fernanda Duarte that will involve a sound installation based on gps data transmitted from moving vehicles. More about this soon.
Github repository for Arduino code.
Short video of two horns playing some of the scripted sounds.
Joined the Open Hardware Makerspace (OHM) student group at NC State as one of the faculty advisors.
With Scot Barnett, Eric Leake, and Jeff Swift, will be part of a panel on Robert Venturi, Las Vegas, and writing at the Cs 2013. Viva Las Vegas.
Will be presenting in a "town hall" titled "Program or Be Programmed: Do We Need Computational Literacy in C&W?" at Computers and Writing 2012. The other four panelists are Mark Sample, Karl Stolley, Alexandria Lockett, and Annette Vee.
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Will be presenting at Computers and Writing 2012 in Raleigh, NC with Sarah Arroyo, David Blakesley, Doug Eyman, and Ben McCorkle. The panel is titled "O Brave NUI World!: Exploring the Implications of Embodied Computing for Digital Rhetoric and Writing." Session D, 17 - 20 May.
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Accepted an invitation to join the WAC Clearinghouse Publications Review Board.
Will be presenting at the Cs 2012 in St. Louis with Anne Wysocki, Kara van de Graaf, and Marilyn Cooper (chair). The panel is titled "Bodies Writing in Space: Rhetorics of Natural-User Interfaces." Session C.31, Thursday, March 22, 1.45 - 3.00p.
With Kevin Brock. Will have a new version of emBody(text){ running at the Cs 2012 in St. Louis. It is titled emBody(dekaaz) { and was developed in collaboration with Rachel Bagby.
Participating in the 3-week, 2012 Critical Code Studies Working Group (CCSWG). Jan 30-Feb 20, 2012.
Participating as an invited panelist about digital humanities scholarship with Tim Stinson and Robin Dodsworth at the AEGS Conference, "So What?: Exploring the Implications of Humanities Studies in the 21st Century." NC State. February 24, 6-7pm.
Participating in a gallery talk about the ID:ENTITY exhibit at CAM Raleigh. Friday, 3 February, 7.30pm.
Will be presenting a paper and digital interactive work at the CHAT Festival 2012. Tuesday, 7 Feb, 1.15-2.30pm. Duke University, Durham, NC.
Participating in a gallery talk about the ID:ENTITY exhibit at CAM Raleigh. Friday, 20 January, 7.30pm.
Final push to complete and install in the gallery two digital rhetoric/writing projects for the ID:ENTITY exhibit. The opening is Friday, 18 November at 6pm. One piece, with David Gruber, is a Flash-based project titled Tunnel Vision. The other, with Kevin Brock, is a Kinect-based piece titled emBody(text) {.
Submitted a panel proposal to Computers and Writing 2012 with Sarah Arroyo, David Blakesley, Doug Eyman, Ben McCorkle, and Jim Porter. The panel will focus on some of the ways in which NUI-based technologies will transform rhetoric and writing theory/practice.
With Kevin Brock. Presenting a nearly-complete version of emBody(text){ at CAM Raleigh for the First Friday festivities on the evening of November 4.
Joined the Humanities and Critical Code Studies Lab, HaCCS, as an affiliated researcher.
Co-developing two digital works with CRDM'ers David Gruber and Kevin Brock for the ID:ENTITY group exhibit at CAM Raleigh, 18 November - 13 February. Opening reception is Friday, 18 November.
Awarded a Delta IDEA exploratory grant based on a proposal titled "Using Motion Control Game Systems to Track, Record, and Analyze Formal Presentations." Grant work will be based on the Kinect for Windows SDK. The goal is to develop a novel system for tracking, recording, and visualizing/analyzing gestures and other embodied movement associated with oral presentations.
Awarded "Best Webtext" for 2011 by Kairos, for "Typographia: A Hybrid, Alphabetic Exploration of Raleigh, NC."
"Published": The Interactive Graffitti Project
For the "closed" opening night of the new Contemporary Art Museum (CAM) in Raleigh, co-developing a Kinect-based interactive art project with Patrick Fitzgerald and Lee Cherry.
Presented "Sensing the Future: the Kinect and the Return of the Rhetorical Gesture." Session J10 (Sunday, 8.30 - 9.45). At Computers & Writing 2011. May 19 - 22. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.
Presented "New Forms of Writing in New Media: Contesting the Alphabetic Principle" at the Conference for College Composition and Communication (CCCC) 2011 (session M.07 - Saturday, April 9, 11.00 - 12.15p) with Kevin Brock, Joshua Hilst, Jason Helms, and Byron Hawk chairing. Saturday, April 9. Atlanta, GA.
Attended the API Workshop at MITH. Fri - Sat, 25/26 Feb. University of Maryland. #dhapi
