Welcome.
This website is meant to offer you a quick overview of my current research and teaching assignments.
What I'm up to:
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.
Will be participating in the 3-week, 2012 Critical Code Studies Working Group (CCSWG). Jan 30-Feb 20, 2012.
Participating in an invited presentation and discussion about digital humanities scholarship with Tim Stinson and Walt Wolfram at the AEGS Conference, NC State. February 24, 6-7pm.
Co-organizing a town hall for Computers and Writing 2012 with Annette Vee on the values/importance of code and computational skills in the fields of digital writing and rhetoric. Thus far, the panel includes Mark Sample, Karl Stolley, Annette Vee, and I.
Will be presenting at the Cs 2012 in St. Louis with Anne Wysocki, Johndan Johnson-Eilola, 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.
Will be presenting at Computers and Writing 2012 in Raleigh, NC with Sarah Arroyo, David Blakesley, Doug Eyman, Ben McCorkle, and Jim Porter. The panel is titled "O Brave NUI World!: Exploring the Implications of Embodied Computing for Digital Rhetoric and Writing." Session TBA, 17 - 20 May.
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Past activities:
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
