NEWS

Grandt's Book Nominated for the 2010 CLA Award
(Published: Mar 12, 2010)

Jurgen Grandt's recently published book, Shaping Words to Fit the Soul: The Southern Ritual Grounds of Afro-Modernism (Ohio State UP), has been nominated for the 2010 CLA Book Award.

Here's a taste of what the book is about: "Taking up where he left off with Kinds of Blue (Ohio State, 2004), Grandt seeks to explore some of the implications of the modernist jazz aesthetic resonating in the African American literary tradition.

"Grandt’s new book probes the ways in which modernism’s key themes of fragmentation, alienation, and epistemology complicate the mapping of the American South as an 'authenticating' locus of African American narrative. Rather than being a site of authentication, the South constitutes a symbolic territory that actually resists the very narrative strategies deployed to capture it." To read more, go to Ohio State .

Grandt, a third-year Brittain Fellow, received his Ph.D. from the University of Georgia.

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"Lost in the Stacks" Features LCC Faculty
(Published: Mar 11, 2010)

"Lost in the Stacks" is the rock'n'roll research-library radio show hosted by GT Library staff.

Recent LCC professors who've been on the show include Karen Head, Shannon Dobranski, and Hugh Crawford as well as STAC students Amaris Gutierrez-Ray and Sidarth Kantamneni.

The show is on WREK Atlanta, 91.1 FM every Friday at noon. A streaming archive of the most recent shows can be found on the WREK website at WREK .

If you miss a show, you can still listen to podcast versions of the shows that include only the interviews. The podcasts are available in the institutional repository at SMARTech .

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Third-Year Brittain Fellow Olin Bjork Recognized by Alma Mater
(Published: Mar 9, 2010)

Bjork, who describes himself as a digital humanist, has worked to digitize both John Milton's Paradise Lost and Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass.

The projects were designed to help students understand the poems by allowing them to experience the words, structure, and sound of the poems.

To read about the project and see how it immerses readers in the texts, go to UT .

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Professor Yaszek & DM student Paul Clifton Featured on WREK
(Published: Feb 25, 2010)

On Friday, March 19 at noon, LCC Professor Lisa Yaszek and DM grad student Paul Clifton will be interviewed on WREK radio’s “Lost in the Stacks,” the world’s first and only Research Library Rock ‘n’ Roll show. The two will discuss science fiction studies at Tech, especially as it informs their work on WREK’s Sci Fi Lab radio show.

The Sci Fi Lab is a two-hour variety show dedicated to “the best in everything science fiction.” Co-sponsored by the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture and WREK, Georgia Tech’s student-run radio station, the Sci Fi Lab broadcasts live the first Sunday of every month from 7-9 pm.

Listeners in the Atlanta, Georgia area can tune in on 91.1; fans from afar can stream the show live at WREK .

All episodes of the Sci Fi Lab are available on the WREK website for one week after the initial broadcast (look for us under “Sunday Special”). Podcasts of previous shows are available at LCC and at Sci Fi at WREK .

For more information, or to suggest topics and songs, email lostinthestacks [AT] library [DOT] gatech [DOT] edu.

Check out the show website at Lost in the Stacks .

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Sci Fi Lab/Inside the Black Box Crossover shows
(Published: Feb 25, 2010)

On Wednesday, March 3 at 12 pm LCC Professor Lisa Yaszek and DM students Paul Clifton, Betsy Gooch, and Joshua Cuneo of the "Sci Fi Lab @ WREK Radio" will visit sister show "Inside the Black Box" to talk about the intersection of science fiction and science and technology.

The fun continues on Sunday, March 7 at 7 pm when "Inside the Black Box" hosts Pete Ludovice and Bill Hunt join the Sci Fi Lab for further discussion of this topic.

"The Sci Fi Lab" is a two-hour variety show dedicated to “the best in everything science fiction.” Co-sponsored by the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture and WREK, Georgia Tech’s student-run radio station, the Sci Fi Lab broadcasts live the first Sunday of every month from 7-9 pm.

Listeners in the Atlanta, Georgia area can tune in on 91.1; fans from afar can stream the show live at WREK . All episodes of the Sci Fi Lab are available on the WREK website for one week after the initial broadcast (look for us under “Sunday Special”). Podcasts of previous shows are available at on the LCC website and on the Sci Fi Lab blog .

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Dr. Crawford Reports on Successful Build
(Published: Feb 22, 2010)

On a beautiful sunny February 20, a group of enthusiastic students and others worked to create a model of Henry David Thoreau's house at Waldon Pond. Dr. Crawford reports great enthusiasm, and the photographs are proof.

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Brittain Fellow Dan Vollaro Featured in CoC Newsletter
(Published: Feb 18, 2010)

The February 2010 FIREwall, a newsletter devoted to take and give feedback about any topic of interest to the College of Computing, includes an article on Vollaro's 3401 class.

The article, written by Kell Simmons, praises Vollaro's "client based approach" to teaching technical communication. By matching students with real clients, the class provides students with real-world experience.

The article lets Vollaro speak for himself and his approach: "To be taught properly, Tech Comm needs real audiences with significant stakes at hand. In my couse, you will work harder than you might initially expect, but you will be well rewarded for your efforts."

To read the full issue, go to February 10 Firewall .

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STAC Student Guitierrez-Ray Recognized by SGA
(Published: Feb 10, 2010)

STaC student Amaris Gutierrez-Ray, editor of Erato, Georgia Tech's Creative Arts Journal, has received funding from the Student Government Association to attend the annual conference held by the Association of Writers and Writing Programs.

Erato accepts and showcases the prose, poetry, photography, and arts of students, faculty, and staff, and will publish its 40th anniversary issue in early April.

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STAC Grad Wins Commercial Contest
(Published: Feb 9, 2010)

Ben Callner (STAC '07) works for a local video production company and created a television commercial that is all over Georgia’s airwaves.

When his friends saw a contest to create a commercial to promote the return of the lottery game Powerball to Georgia, he was happy to do so, and you can see the results all over the local television airwaves. While at Tech, Ben was better known for the clever videos he created for the Office of Student Integrity website.

To hear more about Ben, visit CBS Atlanta .

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STAC Alum Publishes Book of Poetry
(Published: Feb 8, 2010)

Shawn Delgado, who graduated in 2008, recently published his first book of poetry, A Sky Half-Dismantled .

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Auslander To Be Interviewed on Radio City, the BBC's service for Ecuador
(Published: Feb 2, 2010)

The subject of Professor Auslander's interview will be Glam Rock, about which I wrote a book called Performing Glam Rock: Gender and Theatricality in Popular Music .

To listen online, go to Radio City .

Click on "Esuche On Line" near the upper lefthand corner of the home page, and a little player will open in a separate window.

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Congratulations to Melissa Foulger, DramaTech Artistic Director
(Published: Jan 20, 2010)

Foulger's production of Tennessee Williams' Suddenly Last Summer produced at Actor's Express was named one of the Top Ten Plays of 2009 by both Creative Loafing and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution .

Her current production of Good Boys and True is running at Actor's Express to rave reviews from Creative Loafing , and Atlanta Intown Magazine .

See Creative Loafing , AJC , Creative Loafing , and Atlanta Intown .

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Thacker Publishes Essay in Special Issue on Foucault
(Published: Jan 15, 2010)

"The Shadows of Atheology," by Associate Professor Eugene Thacker, is included in the journal Theory, Culture & Society 's special issue on Michel Foucault.

For a limited time Sage is offering open access to the issue online at Sage .

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Brittain Fellow Olin Bjork Recognized for Work in Digital Humanities
(Published: Jan 4, 2010)

Bjork's panel at the 2009 MLA Convention gets an enthusiastic response from Inside Higher Ed. To read the full article, go to Inside Higher Ed .

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Professor Crawford's Honors Seminar Replicates Thoreau's Cabin at Tech
(Published: Nov 19, 2009)

In Spring 1845, Henry David Thoreau went to Walden Pond to build the house made famous in Walden.

To understand what the project entailed, Hugh Crawford's Honors Seminar is building the timber-framed portion of this structure in the College of Architecture courtyard. Using only the tools Thoreau would have used, they have felled trees with axes, squared timbers with broadaxe and adze, and will cut the joints with bow saws, augers, and chisels.

Please stop by when they are working to ask questions, or even lend a hand!

Not only are the students exploring Thoreau and building the timber-framed building, they are making a documentary of the process, a way of integrating past and present technologies.

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DM Alumnus Chaim Gingold's Earth Dragon iPhone Game
(Published: Oct 29, 2009)

DM Alumnus Chaim Gingold, who was the lead game designer for wildly popular Spore Creature Editor is interviewed on Gamasutra about his new iPhone game EARTH DRAGON which also has a cool short Video Trailer on YouTube

Says Chaim: ' iPhone games, and the indie scene, are becoming the creative center of gravity of the gaming world, and I'm excited to be part of it. It feels like a whole new golden era of video games.'

Web page for EARTH GODDESS iphone game

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Andrea Wood's Team for AID's Walk Recognized
(Published: Oct 15, 2009)

Dr. Wood's team, which consists of students in her three English 1101 classes, won an ice cream party from Edy's for registering the most students in a team during one of AID Atlanta's competitions. Edy's graciously offered to provide ice cream to the winning team.

Andrea's team has also earned a table in "Team Land" at the AIDS Walk, an honor reserved for groups that raise $1500 or more for the AIDS Walk.

There's a little less than a week left to continue fundraising, but people can still support these civic-minded students.

Go to AIDS Walk and click on Wood's name to make an online donation to the whole team.

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Reilly's Chapbook Accepted for Publication
(Published: Oct 14, 2009)

La Petite Mort , a chapbook of poems by STAC Advisor J.C. Reilly was recently accepted by Finishing Line Press .

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Dalle Vacche's Diva Wins Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Book Award for 2009
(Published: Sep 28, 2009)

Choice , the official publication of the Association of College and Research Libraries in the United States, annually selects a scholarly work for its prestigious award, and this year LCC Professor Angela Dalle Vacche was selected for her study, Diva .

Diva: Defiance and Passion in Early Italian Cinema was published by The University of Texas Press in 2008.

For additional information about Diva , go to UT Press .

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Travis Denton's "The Burden of Speech" Runner-Up for DeNovo Prize
(Published: Sep 17, 2009)

Travis Denton's recent book of poetry, runner-up for this prestigious prize in poetry, will be published in Fall 2009 by C & R Press. C&R Press is a non-profit literary organization. The DeNovo Prize is for a previously unpublished American poet. Other criteria include striking language, memorable imagery, intellectual depth, and a respect for diversity in all areas of life.

"The Burden of Speech" was also chosen by Robert Pinsky as a finalist for both the Brittingham and Pollack Prizes from the University of Wisconsin Press and nominated by the press for a Kate Tufts Discovery Award.

An individual poem, "To a Buick Skylark," was also anthologized in the newly published Breathe: 101 Contemporary Odes.

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Denton's Poetry Featured
(Published: Sep 8, 2009)

Versedaily.com features a poem from Travis Denton's recent volume, The Burden of Speech: Poems .

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Head's Hour on London Plinth Featured by Time
(Published: Aug 25, 2009)

Poet Karen Head, who explores the use of New Media to explore poetry, was the only American to appear on the 4th plinth at Trafalgar Square, for which she was featured by Time Magazine's Web .

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Thacker Essay "Swarming: Number vs. Animal?" Published in Deleuze and New Technology
(Published: Aug 24, 2009)

Edited by David Savat and Mark Poster and published by the University of Edinburgh Press, Deleuze and New Technology explores Deleuze's often explicit focus and reliance on the machine and the technological.

The volume offers a collective and determined effort to explore the usefulness of key ideas of Deleuze in thinking about our new digital and biotechnological future and takes seriously a style of thinking that negotiates between philosophy, science and art.

Other contributors to the volume include William Bogard, Abigail Bray, Ian Buchanan, Verena Conley, Ian Cook, Tauel Harper, Timothy Murray, Saul Newman, Luciana Parisi, Patricia Pisters, Mark Poster, Horst Ruthrof, David Savat, and Bent Meier Sørensen.

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Head's Sassing Published
(Published: Apr 15, 2009)

For more information on Sassing and an opportunity to read some sample poems, go to WordTech

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Hye Yeon Nam's Musical Instrument in Wired.com
(Published: Mar 22, 2009)

Digital Media PhD Student Hye Yeon Nam's Tongue Music System is featured in a story in Wired.com .

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Ayoka Chenzira Films Shown in London
(Published: Mar 22, 2009)

Two short Films by Digital Media PhD student and Spellman College Professor Ayoka Chenzira "Hair Piece" and "Alma's Rainbow" will be shown March 28 at the 5th Annual Images of Black Women Film Festival in London. "Hair Piece" offers an animated depiction of the antics performed by many black women in an effort to control their hair. "Alma's Rainbow" is a hip urban sitcom with sepia-toned flashbacks. which recalls Spike Lee's first film, "She's Gotta Have It." The heart of the movie is the struggle between Alma and Ruby . Her live-for-the-moment manner sets an example for both mother and daughter, allowing Alma to take a Rainbow's transition from a street-dancing tomboy into a more sexually self-assured young woman.

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Nitsche's Book Published by MIT Press
(Published: Mar 3, 2009)

Assistant Professor Michael Nitsche's Video Game Spaces. Image, Play, and Structure in 3D Worlds explores the move to 3D graphics. That move represents a dramatic artistic and technical development in the history of video games and suggests an overall transformation of games as media. The experience of space has become a key element of how we understand games and how we play them. Video Game Spaces investigates what this shift means for video game design and analysis.

Video Game Spaces provides a range of necessary arguments and tools for media scholars, designers, and game researchers with an interest in 3D game worlds and the new challenges they pose.

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Pollock article, "The Internal Cardiac Defibrillator," Published by MIT
(Published: Sep 24, 2008)

The article appears in a volume edited by Sherry Turkle, The Inner History of Devices .

Anne Pollock completed her PhD in the History and Social Studies of Science and Technology at MIT in 2007 and joined LCC this Fall after spending a postdoctoral year at Rice.

Another article, “Pharmaceutical Meaning – Making Beyond Marketing,” was recently published by the Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics.

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Will Wright's SPORE released
(Published: Sep 5, 2008)

DM Alumni Chaim Gingold and Kate Compton were part of the development team. Chaim led the team that designed the Creature Editor and Kate was one of the principle artists making planets. Will Wright is a recipient of Georgia Tech's Ivan Allen Award for Progress and Service and has twice been the keynote speaker at the Living Game Worlds Symposium, offering us one of the first looks at SPORE when it was in development.

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LCC Professors "Conquer" England
(Published: Jul 8, 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.

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Dr. Wood's Poem Appears in Poetry Midwest #21
(Published: Apr 6, 2008)

The issue also includes a poem by Jack Stewart, Brittain Fellow 1992-95.

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Head Receives Editor's Choice Book Award
(Published: Feb 11, 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.

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Ian Bogost's FATWORLD, featured today on the PBS homepage as part of Independent Lens' web exclusive
(Published: Jan 18, 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.html
http://www.pbs.org/

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CNN.com Reports on Digital Media's Winter 2007 Demo Day
(Published: Jan 11, 2008)

CNN.com provided coverage of the Digital Media program's Winter 2007 Demo Day. The segment can be watched online here on CNN

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Auslander's Liveness Translated into Slovenian
(Published: Jan 3, 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.

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Game Daily featured article by Dr. Celia Pearce "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun: Video Game Makers Sh
(Published: Dec 13, 2007)

Game Daily - December 13, 2007 Dr. Celia Pearce of GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY believes the video game industry has yet to really take advantage of the huge opportunity female gamers present ... During the upcoming holiday season, consumers will spend billions of dollars on video games. While their commercial success is unquestionable, it's amazing to think that video games have become so successful while almost willfully excluding a sizable chunk of the population – women. Link to complete article

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