I’m excited to be working on a special issue focused on AR/VR/XR pedagogies for the Journal of Interactive Teaching and Pedagogy. Deadline was extended to December 13, 2019. The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy Special Issue: Extended Reality (XR) Pedagogies & Applications: Interactive & Immersive Educational Technologies Issue Editors:…
Visiting Scientist at U of Padua in December 2019
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…
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…
3D/VR in the Academic Library: Emerging Practices and Trends
Great news – the CLIR report, 3D/VR in the Academic Library: Emerging Practices and Trends is now available! This came out of the Oklahoma symposium I participated in last year. It is exciting to think about how libraries and academic departments and programs can partner on this and other emerging…
Decomposing the Disciplines at Jacobs University
On November 9, 2018 I had the distinct pleasure of returning to Jacobs University to present during a colloquium called “Bildung Beyond Boundaries, Part II: Beyond the Discipline. Academic Innovations and the Role of Inter and Trans Disciplinarity.” Duke has had a connection to Jacobs for number of years through…
Contested Histories and Cultural Heritage at Ursinus College
At the invitation of Associate Dean Meredith Goldsmith, former FHI Fellow, I had the opportunity to visit Ursinus College in PA from October 30-31, where I spoke on “Contested Histories: Cultural Heritage and the Digital Archive” as well as conducted a workshop and got to meet a number of dedicated…
Parameters Essay
I wrote an essay for Parameters: Knowledge Under Digital Conditions, which is published by the Social Science Research Council, on the topic of “Knowledge in 3D: How 3D data visualization is reshaping our world” – it was fun to think about how to distill some general thoughts for this context.
Fall 2018 Teaching
This Fall I will be teaching two courses: ISS 240/VMS 288/AMI 325: Web-Based Multimedia Communications, which we are offering in a hybrid online lecture and live section format for the first time. (I will be doing the lecture parts and coordinating the sections). This course fulfills the Practice component of…
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!
Apprehending the Past: Augmented Reality, Archives, and Cultural Memory
My essay, “Apprehending the Past: Augmented Reality, Archives, and Cultural Memory,” written for the Routledge Companion to Media Studies and the Digital Humanities, edited by the heroic Jentery Sayers, is now out. Truly in exalted company! If only it weren’t quite so expensive – at least there is a semi-affordable…