LCC NEWS
STAC Alumna Wins Prestigious Award
(Published: 23 Jul 2008)
Shelly Krueger, who graduated in May 2006 and is currently in the marine sciences master's program at Savannah State University, is the recipient of the John A. Knauss Marine Policy Award, one of the most prestigious fellowships offered by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
For additional information on Shelly, see
Savannah Daily News .
LCC Professors "Conquer" England
(Published: 8 Jul 2008)
While teaching in the Oxford program Dr. Bob Wood and Dr. Karen Head are also busy sharing their poetry with various British audiences.
On Tuesday, July 15, Head and Grace Bauer (award winning poet from
Nebraska) will read at Worcester College. The following Tuesday (July 22), Bob and Lauren Rusk (Stanford) will read.
Additionally, Karen is reading in London at the Poetry Cafe on Wednesday, July 8.
Poetry .
Article by Head Appears in Chronicle of Higher Education
(Published: 24 Jun 2008)
Head, who is graduate-communication coordinator at CETL as well as a special adviser to the writing and communication program in LCC, writes about the problems graduate students have communicating with their advisors. The
Essay appeared in the June 27 issue.
June Sci Fi Lab
(Published: 16 Jun 2008)
This month's episode features interviews with science fiction author Paul Di Filippo, digital games scholar Ian Bogost, psuedopod founder Ben Philips, plus book reviews and a readers' guide to comics.
The Sci Fi Lab is a joint production of Georgia Tech's School of Literature, Communication, and Culture and WREK, Georgia Tech's student run radio station.
This month's episode will be available for download at
WREK (under "Sunday Special" through midnight Sunday, June 22. After that, it will be available for download at
LCC Creative Projects .
Jenifer Vandagriff Presents Research at ACC Conference in Tallahassee
(Published: 24 Apr 2008)
The third Annual Atlantic Coast Conference Meeting of the Minds was hosted by FSU. Representing Georgia Tech was Jenifer Vandagriff, a student in LCC's 5 Year BS/MS program. See
Tallahassee.com and
Talahassee.com .
Wood's Poems in Quiddity, umbrellajournal.com, Quercus Review, Hamilton Stone Review , and Sylvan Echo .
(Published: 24 Apr 2008)
Best-known around Skiles for his work on Shakespeare and Galileo, Dr. Wood is also a poet whose work has been published recently in a variety of journals.
The inaugural issue of a new poetry journal,
Quiddity features three poems by LCC professor Robert Wood. Go to
Quiddity to read and/or listen.
You can also read "French Movie" at
umbrellajournal.com .
"Universal Movie Love Poem" appears in the annual
Quercus Review #8.
"'Tis Pity" and "Kilt" are available at
Hamilton Stone .
Two more short poems, "An Ordinary Heartsong" and "Working Close," appear in
Sylvan Echo at
Echo .
Prof. Ian Bogost quoted on National Public Radio in the program All Things Considered.
(Published: 17 Apr 2008)
LCC's Prof. Ian Bogost was quoted in NPR's program
All Things Considered in the piece titled "Video Game Makers Favor Diversion over Depth".
Listen to the piece here-
Video Game Makers Favor Diversion over Depth
Dr. Wood's Poem Appears in Poetry Midwest #21
(Published: 6 Apr 2008)
The
issue also includes a poem by Jack Stewart, Brittain Fellow 1992-95.
Brittain Fellow Farmer Wins Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers Award
(Published: 11 Mar 2008)
With no life goals, a disappointed father, and a major crush on an Oregon native, Daryl Farmer set out 20 years ago on a bicycle ride that would alter his life forever. In
Bicycling beyond the Divide, a wiser Farmer retraces his journey of self-discovery, always remembering advice his brother gave on his first journey: “Keep your eyes on the road and your nose off the pavement.”
After returning from his initial trip, this former college drop-out graduated from college and went on to the University of Nebraska to receive both an MA and a PhD in English and Creative Writing. Farmer admits, “If I had never dropped out of college, I would have never gotten a PhD.” This realization propelled him to focus his doctoral dissertation on the journey that helped him build self-confidence and find new direction in life.
Farmer’s dissertation was so poignant that his Nebraska professors encouraged him to revise it and publish it as a book, which received the Barnes and Noble's Discover Great New Writers program earlier this year.
Farmer encourages students and everyone around him to be observant and take advantage of all opportunities available, no matter how unconventional they appear. He continues to write short stories and reviews. He shares the deeply personal story of
Bicycling beyond the Divide in hope that others will discover how, as the book’s cover suggests, “the natural world and personal character are inextricably linked.”
STAC Student Interviews Editor of USA Today
(Published: 22 Feb 2008)
As part of her responsibilities as a contributing writer for the
Technique Caryn Womack got to meet and interview Ken Paulsen, the editor of
USA Today .
Caryn is also the Assistant Copy Editor for the
Tower , Tech's new journal on undergraduate research. See
Tower
Crawford Wins Bratcher Award
(Published: 18 Feb 2008)
Dr. Hugh Crawford is the recipient of the 2008 Don Bratcher Human Relations Award, given by the Office of Diversity Programs and the Office of Employee Relations in Human Resources for an individual who cultivates an environment where value is placed upon the broader concerns of all humanity.
Broglio Editorial Appears in AJC
(Published: 15 Feb 2008)
Responding to a proposal to allow people to swim with the Whale Sharks, Professor Ron Broglio and colleagues from Emory and Georgia State wrote to the
Atlanta Journal-Constitution . The editorial was published on Thursday, February 14 at
AJC .
Head Receives Editor's Choice Book Award
(Published: 11 Feb 2008)
Karen Head's poetry collection,
My Paris Year, receives first annual Editor's Choice Book Award for excellence in poetry. The volume will be published in mid-September.
Two LCC Professors Involved in Volume Three of Pecha Kucha
(Published: 7 Feb 2008)
An informal salon and show-and-tell governed by the simple formula : 20 images running for 20 seconds each, so that each presenter
takes the spotlight for 6 minutes and 40 seconds.
The brainchild of Klein Dytham architects in Tokyo, Pecha Kucha now plays in more than 100 cities around the globe.
Atlanta Pecha Kucha nights mix it up -- bringing you activists, animators, arbiters, architects, artists, chefs, coolhunters, critics, curators, designers, dreamers, entrepreneurs, fabricators, fashionistas, historians, makers, rabblerousers, scientists -- insiders and outsiders.
VOLUME THREE
February 10, 2008
Six Forty PM
Octane Coffee Lounge
1009 Marietta St NW
Atlanta, GA 30318
VOLUME THREE
Angela Dalle Vacche: Why the Diva is Not a Vamp
UT Press
Hugh Crawford's English 1102 :Mad Housers at 20
Mad Housers
Atlanta pecha kucha
VOLUME ONE and TWO podcasts available for download here and from i-tunes
STAC Major Featured on Undergrad Research Webpage
(Published: 28 Jan 2008)
Farhana Abdullah, who graduated in December 2007, is one of three students featured on the Undergrad Research webpage this month
Research .
Sci Fi Lab Becomes Regular Feature on WREK
(Published: 22 Jan 2008)
The Sci Fi Lab," a science fiction variety show co-sponsored by Georgia Tech's School of Literature, Communication, and Culture
and WREK Student Radio, will now broadcast regularly from 7-9 pm on the third Sunday of every month.
All shows are available at
WREK for one week after their original air date under the heading "Sunday Special." After that, they are available for download as podcasts on the LCC website at
LCC Creative Projects .
The Sunday, January 20, show featured SF authors Howard Hendrix, Bill Campbell, and Scott Green. This episode also included a book review by STAC alum Jason Ellis, music courtesy of GT alum Matt Simpson, and a very special in-studio mystery guest.
Ian Bogost's FATWORLD, featured today on the PBS homepage as part of Independent Lens' web exclusive content.
(Published: 18 Jan 2008)
Ian Bogost's FATWORLD, a downloadable video game about eating, obesity, and the politics of nutrition, reconstructs a playful, small-scale society in which players own and operate a restaurant, purchase groceries, create and share recipes, and make nutritional decisions over the life of a character.
http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/interactive.htmlhttp://www.pbs.org/
Second Life Augmented Reality Group to Visit Banff New Media Institute
(Published: 14 Jan 2008)
LCC professors Jay Bolter and Michael Nitsche, Brittain Post-Doctoral Fellow, Kathryn Farley and COC professor Blair MacIntyre have been invited to visit the Banff Center for the Arts' New Media Institute March 19-23.
The Tech group will tour the Advanced Research Labs, meet with resident artists, and deliver a lecture about their project.
Bringing together creative practitioners, industry experts, and university-based researchers, the Banff New Media Institute explores the art and science of emerging technologies. An overview of The Second Life Augmented Reality Project can be found at
Second Life .
CNN.com Reports on Digital Media's Winter 2007 Demo Day
(Published: 11 Jan 2008)
CNN.com provided coverage of the Digital Media program's Winter 2007 Demo Day. The segment can be watched
online here on CNN
Auslander's Liveness Translated into Slovenian
(Published: 3 Jan 2008)
The second edition of Dr. Phil Auslander's
Liveness: Performance in a Mediatized Culture was recently translated into Slovenian,
V Zivo: Uprizarjanje v mediatriziani kulturi, and is the most recent volume in a Slovenian series on performance.
STAC Major Works with Smyrna Library
(Published: 2 Jan 2008)
Senior Betsy Gooch recently took on the responsibility of helping the Smyrna Public Library to develop a more sophisticated web presence to communicate with patrons. See
The Link for an example of Betsy's work.
Book Published by Former Britt, Jason Mosser
(Published: 11 Dec 2007)
Four New Journalists: Style, Persona, and Protest (writers include Norman Mailer, Joan Didion, Hunter S. Thompson and Michael Herr) will be published by Edwin Mellen Press by the end of 2008.
Mosser is currently an Associate Professor at Georgia Gwinett College.
LCC Faculty Contribute to Electronic Book Review
(Published: 26 Nov 2007)
the backwardS Spear of poetry is a new gathering of 19 essays assembled by Brittain Fellow, Lori Emerson, on the electronic book review. See
electronic book review .
The collection features essays that relish the "thingness" of language
across media, essays that work with us to renegotiate the boundaries of what counts as poetry, and essays that experiment with how to
engage with new poetry in humanities research.
Essays in the collection include the "Introduction: ceci n'est pas un texte" by Emerson and "Biopoetics; or, a Pilot Plan for a Concrete Poetry" written by Eugene Thacker.
Emerson introduces a gathering of nineteen electro-poetic essays.
This gathering brings together both critics and creators of electronic
poetry; as is usually the case in ebr, the 'electronic' does not exclude, but helps us to reconfigure and revalue poetic works in print as well as define what works in digital environments.
Thacker resituates the work of Eduardo Kac, not as art applied to
the life sciences, but as a form of bio-poetics, consistent with the
electro-poetics that has been a longtime focus of critical writing in
ebr. Rather than reduce the work to its material (in life-forms, or in
text, or in code), Thacker identifies ways that language, form, and life intersect in works of bio-art.
Brittain Fellow to Present at International Media Arts Histories Conference
(Published: 6 Nov 2007)
Kathryn Farley, a first-year Britt specializing in digital performance studies, will travel to Germany to present at Re:place 2007: the Second International Conference on the Histories of Media, Art, Science and Technology (Berlin, November 15-18). The conference, a
project of Kulturprojekte Berlin GmbH in cooperation with Haus der Kulturen der Welt, is an international forum for the presentation and discussion of exemplary approaches to the rapport between art, media, science and technology.
Kathryn's project, funded by a researcher-in-residence grant by the Daniel Langlois Foundation of Montreal, Canada, charts the history of the Generative Systems, a groundbreaking instructional program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and traces its seminal impact on the development of technological arts education at the post-secondary level.
Information about the conference and Kathryn's research can be found at
Conference
Bolter Honored at GVU 15th Anniversary Celebration and Symposium
(Published: 26 Oct 2007)
The Graphics, Visualization & Usability Center (GVU) at Georgia Tech recently honored Professor Jay Bolter for his significant contribution to graphics and visualization research, particularly in the area of Augmented Reality design.
GVU aims to elevate the disciplines of graphics and visualization, by serving as a campus-wide resource to foster creativity and support related academic programs.
Details about the award and information about Professor Bolter's research activities can be found on the Center's site, located at
GVU .
Brittain Fellow Emerson Publishes Edited Volume
(Published: 16 Oct 2007)
The Alphabet Game: a bpNichol Reader, edited by Darren Wershler-Henry and Lori Emerson was recently published by Coach House Press 2007.
bpNichol was one of Canada's most innovative, eclectic, and enigmatic poets, making startling interventions in the development of poetry and profoundly influencing both his own and subsequent generations.
The Alphabet Game: A bpNichol Reader amasses key texts from the
broad spectrum of Nichol's work, including both classic favourites andmore obscure treasures. From the early typewriter poetry of
Konfessions of an Elizabethan Fan Dancer and the life-long poem TheMartyrology to the heartbreaking prose of Journal and the whimsicalautobiography of Selected Organs, The Alphabet Game traces the trajectory of this wildly imaginative and prolific poet.
Coach House Press .
Emerson's book is reviewed at
Book Forum .
Read an interview with Lori at
blogTO .
Watch STAC Alum Break it Down
(Published: 15 Oct 2007)
STAC Alum Nicole Rateau, also known as B-girl Severe, is a member of the Atlanta-based breakdancing organization and crew Burn Unit. If you can’t catch Severe and the rest of Burn Unit at a live performance, you can see them on several, local television networks.
Burn Unit, comprised of Atlanta’s finest male and female breakdancers, is currently featured once a week on Transit TV, the station airing on all MARTA buses (not rail). A different segment airs every Thursday once an hour all day long (between 6 a.m. and 2 p.m. at 7 minutes past the hour and from 2-10 p.m. at 51 minutes past the hour).
Burn Unit will also be featured in an upcoming segment of the Public Broadcasting Atlanta show “This is Atlanta.” The show offers a mini-documentary on the people who make Atlanta an exciting place to live. Look for the Burn Unit segment sometime at the following times:
Monday, Nov. 12 at 11:30 p.m., Friday, Nov. 16 at 11:30 p.m., Monday, Nov. 19 at 10:30 p.m.
In addition, Severe and the crew are highlighted by the Atlanta Business Chronicle as a fresh and unique entertainment idea to bring crowds to their feet in the current Meeting Planner's Guide.
Burn Unit
The Oscar®-nominated documentary BUILDING BOMBS produced by DM PhD student Susan Robinson released on DVD
(Published: 3 Oct 2007)
'BUILDING BOMBS' the Academy award nominated documentary film produced by DM PhD student Susan Robinson has been released on DVD.
The film mirrors the lives of a community grappling with the issues concerning the weapons of mass destruction and has also been a winner of the prestigious Golden Gate Award.
Read more about the film
here
Two LCC Professors Receive NSF Grants
(Published: 24 Sep 2007)
Associate Professor Lisa Yaszek recently received NSF funds to study representations of nanotechnology in science, public policy, and popular culture. Yaszek will work on this project with Co-PIs Drs. Richard Barke and Alan Porter from Public Policy and Dr. Jud Ready from GTRI. They were awarded $85,417.00 to fund their one-year exploratory project.
Profesor Janet Murray has been awarded a $100,000 grant for work on narrative. Her project aims to make tools that will allow the conventions of narrative and games to be uses for the purposes of knowledge creation. The project is based on the assumption that narrative structures are abstraction systems and that narrative abstraction has been adapted to multiple media through specific technologies, such as the hexameters of epic poetry, the first person narration of confessional novels, the over the shoulder shot of classic film.
This project will explore techniques for advancing the development of similar technologies of expression for the computational medium by establishing schema and design principles for authoring and presentation environments that augment our ability to author more complex procedurally-based stories, and to navigate multiple versions of the same event and multiple points of view in such a way that we build up more complex models of the world.
Sci Fi Lab Radio Show on WREK 91.1, 7-9 pm
(Published: 24 Sep 2007)
This month's show revolves around science fiction fandom and includes interviews with STAC major Betsy Gooch and the Georgia Tech organizers of MomoCon as well as DragonCon coverage, original fiction, and a film review by STAC alum Jason Ellis.
For the next week you will be able to download the show from
WREK's archives at
WREK and click on "the Sunday Special."
Georgia Tech's Digital Media Program Well Represented at Digital Arts and Culture in Perth Australia
(Published: 21 Sep 2007)
Georgia Tech's Digital Media Program had the most papers in the conference of any institution. Present in person were Professors Fox Harrell and Celia Pearce as well as Ph.D. student Jichen Zhu. Also represented in absentia were Professors Ken Knoespel (presented by collaborator Jichen Zhu) and Ian Bogost (presented by Fox Harrell).
A conference series that was established in 1998, the DAC was one of the first academic events to gather researchers, practitioners and artists working within the field of digital arts, cultures, aesthetics and design.
Brittain Alumni Publishes Negotiating Motherhood (Routledge 2007)
(Published: 7 Sep 2007)
Mary Wearn published Negotiating Motherhood as part of Routledge's series on American literature. The volume is described as follows: Returning to a foundational moment in the history of the American family, "Negotiating Motherhood in Nineteenth-Century American Literature" explores how various authors of the period represented the maternal role—an office that came to a new, social prominence at the end of the eighteenth century. By examining maternal figures in the works of diverse authors such as Harriet Beecher Stowe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, and Sarah Piatt, this book exposes the contentious but fruitful negotiations that took place in the heart of the American sentimental era—negotiations about the cultural meanings of family, womanhood, and motherhood. This book, then, challenges critical constructions that figure American sentimentalism as a coherent, monolithic project, tied strictly to the forces of cultural conservatism.
Ian Bogost on the 'Colbert Report' on Comedy Central
(Published: 8 Aug 2007)
LCC professor discusses video games with Steven Colbert at
Report
Pearce Comments on NPR's "Morning Edition"
(Published: 31 Jul 2007)
You can listen to Professor Celia Pearce discuss avatars at
Morning Edition
Colatrella in Colloquy on Women's Advancement in the Academy
(Published: 9 Apr 2007)
The colloguy was held at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute on Tuesday, March 27. You can hear the webcast by going to
Colloquy
Telotte's book on Disney forthcoming from Illinois
(Published: 27 Mar 2007)
The Mouse Machine: Disney and Technology will be published this fall by the University of Illinois Press. See
Mouse Machine .
A new article on Disney animation will also appear in the next issue of the
Quarterly Review of Film and Video .
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