In December 2019, I am a Visiting Scientist at the University of Padua, where I am working with my colleagues there on two projects. The first, Visualizing Lovecraft, is an exciting return to my literary roots to explore the visualization of imagined and hybrid reality places in partnership with an…
New Media Caucus Border Control presentation of Psychasthenia Studio
On Friday, September 20, 2019 I presented the work of Psychasthenia Studio at the New Media Caucus Border Control conference in Ann Arbor, MI. Great venue, great conversations. Very pleased to see many of my ACM SIGGRAPH collaborators as well as friends from the CAA/NMC world. I got to discuss…
Venice, Padua, Utrecht, Krakow, Warsaw, Grinnell, Pittsburgh, and LA!
Summer 2019 was one of those summers where the timing worked out, but the sanity may have been in question. After teaching year 2 of the DAH Venice/Getty workshop, several of us headed to Padua for a Visualizing Cities Symposium where Cosimo Monteleone and I gave everyone a first glimpse…
Psychasthenia Studio and the Gamification of Contemporary Culture
Yay! My essay about gamification and my longstanding collaboration with Joyce Rudinsky in Psychasthenia Studio is now online! Take a look in Media and Communication!
Psychasthenia 3 at the Hygienic Gallery, Feb 14-17, 2018
We got to show Psychasthenia 3 at the Hygienic Gallery in New London, CT in the Future Perfect show curated by Nadav Assor as part of the Intersections Colloquium. New London is such an interesting city too. I’d love to do an historical “Ghosts” project there at some point. Guess…
Teaching Spring 2014
This Spring I taught two courses. The first, Media History: Old and New, is a favorite because I get to delve back into all sorts of historic media in the process of talking about cultural resonances between c. 19 exhibition culture and the contemporary digital context. The repeated utopian/dystopian narratives…
Psychasthenia 2
The collaborative computer-games driven art project, Psychasthenia 2, will be presented as an installation at the New Media Currents 2013 exhibition in Sante Fe, NM from June 14 – 30, 2013. We have set up a little “treatment room” for our clients to enter when they interact with the project.…
Innerspace Adventure
My collaborator Joyce Rudinsky and I put together an augmented reality experience for the College Art Association conference in NYC, which took place in February 2013. This project is set in the New York Hilton, and mimics a text adventure in its simple branching structure. It is activated from a…