In progress
Book project: Suasive Iterations: Experimental Rhetoric and Writing in Computational Media . Advanced contract with Parlor Press' New Media Theory Series.
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.
- Very early draft of skeletal tracking w/motion trails<
Under consideration/review
Essay titled "Hands Free, You're Up: Microsoft's Kinect and the Politics of the (Body as) Interface."
Forthcoming
"Tunnel Vision: A Cybertextual Interpretation of Mark Strand's 'The Tunnel.'" With David Gruber. Forthcoming in Hyperrhiz: New Media Cultures.
Published/Completed
_Creative/experimental
emBody(dekaaz) {. With Kevin Brock and Rachel Bagby. Conference for College Composition and Communication 2012. St. Louis, MO. 21 - 24 March, 2012. A Twitter-based version that represents the 3-stanza dekaaz poetry
Tunnel Vision. With David Gruber. ID:ENTITY Self: Perception + Reality. Digital interactive work. CAM Raleigh. Emerging Artists Series #3. 18 Nov 2011 - 13 Feb 2012. [Link to press release]. >screen capture<
emBody(text) {. With Kevin Brock. ID:ENTITY Self: Perception + Reality. Digital interactive work. CAM Raleigh. Emerging Artists Series #3. 18 Nov 2011 - 13 Feb 2012. [Link to press release]. >screen capture<
"Interactive Graffitti Project." 29 April 2011. CAM Raleigh. With Lee Cherry and Patrick Fitzgerald. ---> Link to project summary
_Scholarly/critical
"Typographia: A Hybrid, Alphabetic Exploration of Raleigh, NC." Kairos: A Journal of Technology, Rhetoric, and Pedagogy. Spring 2010 (14.2). [ Awarded "Best Webtext" for 2011 by Kairos ].
"Snowballs and Other Numerate Acts of Textuality." Computers and Composition Online. 2010.
Small Tech: The Culture of Digital Tools. With/Byron Hawk and Ollie Ovideo. Minnesota UP, 2008.
-----"Introduction: On Small Tech and Complex Ecologies." With Byron Hawk. In Small Tech. 2008.
-----"ScriptedWriting() { Exploring Generative Dimensions of Writing in Flash Actionscript." In Small Tech. 2008.
_Funded work
W/Patrick Fitzgerald. Awarded a CHASS Digital Humanities Scholarship and Research Award (DH-SRA) for our proposal, "Gesture as Ubiquitous Digital Language: Developing a Platform for Gesture- and Movement-Based Digital Humanities Projects Using Microsoft’s Kinect."
