swanstream

Self.net
This book considers the way  that the development of network technologies are coextensive with subject formation in contemporary aesthetic works.

In Progress:

Animal, Vegetable, Digital
This project situates contemporary digital artworks that express animal-human-nonhuman assemblages within a cultural history that dates back to antiquity. 

e-Vocative Cases: Digitality and Direct Address
This project explores the concept of “direct address” in digital works and identifies moments within them–both subtle and overt–that signal, cue, or otherwise point outside themselves to the reader as she progresses through the text.

The following are descriptions of research projects with which I am affiliated.

The Agrippa Files (Editor, Archival Documents; Co-Editor Bibliography) The Agrippa Files is a scholarly site that offers a unique archive of materials related to the creation and early reception of the original art book Agrippa: (a book of the dead), an experimental work which appeared in 1992 as a collaboration between artist Dennis Ashbaugh, author William Gibson, and publisher Kevin Begos, Jr.

ARTMargins (Managing Editor) Founded in 1998, ARTMargins is an on-line journal devoted to contemporary Central and Eastern European visual culture.

Consortium for Literature, Theory, and Culture (Comparative Literature Graduate Representative, 2005-2006) The Consortium brings together faculty and graduate students from the Division of Humanities and Fine Arts at UCSB to advance collaborative research in literary studies.

New Visions of Nature, Science, and Religion (Graduate Student Researcher, 2004-2005) Ultimately, science and religion both attend to the same ultimate reality, the same biophysical and human nature. By working toward synthesis of contemporary visions of nature, New Visions of Nature, Science and Religion aims to provide an important metaphysical meeting ground for these two great traditions.

Transliteracies (Project Coordinator / Graduate Student Researcher, 2005-2007) Established in 2005, the Transliteracies Project includes scholars in the humanities, social sciences, and engineering in the University of California system (and in the future other research programs). It will establish working groups to study online reading from different perspectives; bring those groups into conjunction behind a shared technology development initiative; publish research and demonstration software; and train graduate students working at the intersections of the humanistic, social, and technological disciplines.

UC New Media Directory (Contributing Editor, 2006-2007) The area of “new media studies” has recently emerged at the intersection of humanities, arts, social science, and computer science research into digital, networked technologies and their cultural implications. The UC New Media Directory provides a guide to new media researchers and programs in the University of California system, which has invested strategically in this area.