News
April 2010
° Great news: I will be joining the faculty in American Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park this fall! I will also be helping to launch the Digital Cultures and Creativity Honors Program and working with the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities.
November 2009:
° I was awarded a grant to present on locative games at the Digital Arts and Culture Conference next month at UC Irvine.
October 2009:
° My article, "Hypermediating the Game Interface," has been accepted for publication in Commuincation Quarterly. ° I have been accepted into the Digital Arts and Culture Conference at UC Irvine where I'll be presenting on locative games.
August 2009:
° My book proposal for my manuscript, Mobile Interface Theory: Embodiment in Locative Art, Gaming, and Pervasive Computing Culture, has been accepted and is in contract with Routledge Press.
June 2009:
° I just got word that I got into DiGRA - the Digital Games Research Area conference (to be held in London this September). The paper I will be presenting is titled, "Locative Life: Geocaching, Mobile Gaming, and the Reassertion of Proximity."
April 2009:
° I presented my latest research on Internet Mapping at MIT's "Media in Transition" conference. You can read it here (PDF).
December 2008:
° I was recently awarded the CLA Faculty Grant for travel to the MIT "Media in Transition" conference this April. I will be presenting new research titled, "Information Cartography: Visualizations of Internet Spatiality and Information Flows."
September 2008:
° As co-coordinator of the Mixed Media Performance (with Jennifer Parker-Starbuck), we have started a blog for researchers and educators of digital performance (which will provide syllabi, reading lists, classroom exercises, recent publications, and news regarding upcoming digital performances). You can visit it here: www.mixedmediaperformance.com.
° It has been a very busy summer leading up to the fall semester! I traveled to several conferences, including a very successful Cybercultures conference in Oxford and the Association for Theatre in Higher Education's conference in Denver (for which I am an organizer for the Performance Studies Focus Group preconference).
August 2008:
° My article, "Surveillance Spectacles: The Big Art Group's Flicker and the Screened Body in Performance" will published in Contemporary Theatre Review early next year.
Februrary 2008:
° I just got word that I was accepted to a conference at Oxford that will take place this July. The conference is called, "Visions of Humanity in Cyberculture." I will be presenting my research, "Mapping the Digital Empire: Google Earth and the Process of Postmodern Cartography."
° I have two other conferences coming up soon, the Popular Culture Association Conference in San Francisco and the Electronic Literature Conference over here at WSU Vancouver. At both, I will be presenting research on video game interfaces.
November 2007:
° The editors of a new book series have asked me to contribute a book titled Theatre & Technology. The book series, Theatre&, is edited by faculty at the University of London and will be published in 2009 by Palgrave.
October 2007:
° The students in my Digital Diversity course have created websites studying diversity in social networks such as Second Life, networked gaming, Google Earth Community, various forums and blogs. You can visit their sites HERE. The Tri-City Herald wrote a little column about their work. You can read it HERE.
July 2007:
° Alongside Paige McGinley, I am the Preconference organizer for the Performance Studies Focus Group at ATHE (Association for Theatre in Higher Education). Our conference this year was held in New Orleans and was a total success! Looking forward to next year in Denver!
May 2007:
° My book review of the recent anthology, Intermediality in Theatre and Performance, was published in the May issue of Theatre Journal. You can read it HERE.
March 2007:
° I have accepted a tenure-track position as Assistant Professor and the Director of the Digital Technology and Culture Program at Washington State University. This fall I will be teaching courses titled "Digital Diversity" and "Language, Texts, and Technology."
° My article, "The Virtual Artaud: Computer Virus as Performance Art" was published in the anthology, TechKnowledgies: New Imaginaries in the Humanities, Arts, and TechnoSciences, published through Cambridge Scholars Press.