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Web: http://person.au.dk/en/imvcua@hum.au.dk

Email: cua [at] multimedia.au.dk

Sandy Baldwin’s work imagines the future of literary studies in a digital age. As coordinator of the Center for Literary Computing, he facilitates interdisciplinary research projects in the poetics of new media and the media ecology of literary institutions, using web-technologies, multimedia, hypertext, audio/video, and virtual environments. Sandy’s scholarly work explores media technologies as rhetorical and aesthetic objects, asking how media structure our thought and experience. His particular focus is on continuities and borrowings between literary theory and theories of digital multimedia. Current research areas include: net art as a literary genre, avant-garde writing as a precursor of multimedia, the narrativity of computer games, and the cultural implications of nanotechnology (see his essay in Culture Machine http://culturemachine.tees.ac.uk/).

Sandy’s creative writing experiments with text, sound, image, and collaborative performance. He is a founding member of the multimedia performance/poetry groups Purkinge and Nine Way Mind, with works in print, on the Internet, and on CD-ROM; and with performances in the USA, Europe, at conferences, reading series, radio shows, and rock concerts. He also writes and performs collaboratively with the Atlanta Poets Group. An example of his solo work appeared in the anthology Another South: Experimental Writing in the South (University of Alabama Press).

email: Charles.Baldwin [at] mail.wvu.edu

Brian A. Bremen

I’m an Associate Professor in the English department at the University of Texas at Austin, specializing in American Literature, Modernism, and Literary Theory. I am currently at work on a book that examines the ways in which contemporaneous religious and scientific thought interacted in the formation of Modern literature, tentatively called What Was Modernism (and Does It Still Matter)?

But I’ve also been an avid surfer of the Internet since 1992 and interested in the Digital Humanities and ideas of Authorship and Taste. I’m also archiving graphic, audio, and video material to aid in the instruction of large lecture sections of my Introduction to American Literature course and experimenting with ways in which to incorporate web-based activities and instruction in large lecture classes.

I’m the author of William Carlos Williams and the Diagnostics of Culture (Oxford University Press, 1993), articles on W.E.B. DuBois, Jean Toomer, and James Joyce, and the former editor of the William Carlos Williams Review.

Wendy Hui Kyong Chun

Wendy Chun is an associate professor of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University. She has studied both Systems Design Engineering and English Literature, which she combines and mutates in her current work on digital media. She is author of _Control and Freedom: Power and Paranoia in the Age of Fiber Optics_ (MIT, 2006), and co-editor (with Thomas Keenan) of _New Media, Old Media: A History and Theory Reader (Routledge, 2005). She has been a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard and a Wriston Fellow at Brown. AY 2006-2007, she is a visiting scholar and visiting associate professor in the History of Science Department at Harvard forx. She is currently working on a monograph entitled _Programmed Visions: Software, DNA, Race_ (forthcoming MIT, 2008).
website: http://research.brown.edu/myresearch/Wendy_Hui_Kyong_Chun

Christy Dena
For the past few years Christy Dena has been working as an industry strategist, mentor, designer and PhD researcher in cross-media entertainment. She has provided advice and presentations on multi-platform storytelling, gaming and marketing to Nokia Finland, Australia Council for the Arts, Film Australia, Center for Screen Business, AFTRS, ABC, dLux Media Arts, ACT Filmmakers Network, IGDA Brisbane and the Web Standards Group. She is part of the UK-based Sense Worldwide Network, a company that provides contextual research and concept development services to Blue Chip and Fortune 500 clients. Her advisory clients include the Australian Literature Board, Killer Bald Men, dLux Media Arts and Instinct Entertainment. Christy has mentored practitioners and producers at the AFTRS Laboratory of Advanced Media Production (LAMP), Booranga Writers Center, DeMontfort University and University of Melbourne. Her PhD candidature, at the School of Letters, Art and Media, University of Sydney, investigates changes to entertainment in the context of cross-media production. She recently gave a keynote at the First International Conference on Cross-Media Interaction Design in Sweden. She has presented, co-organised, MCed and been a panelist at many events. Dena has also unorganised the first two BarCampSydney events (unconferences) in Sydney, Australia. Upcoming projects she has worked on include the Copenhagen Council communications programme in which she was the lead strategist for the Killer Bald Men pitch, and is consulting for an alternate reality game in development in Australia. Her main blog was: www.Cross-MediaEntertainment.com and she co-edited www.WriterResponseTheory.org. The CME blog is on indefinite hiatus and has been left online as a resource. She will be back to blogging at WRT as soon as she’s complete PhD (or sooner). She has launched a podcast though: http://www.UniverseCreation101.com

Jeremy Douglass

Jeremy Douglass is Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB profile). His research focuses on interactive fiction and reader response to textual new media. Jeremy is also a database and web developer for numerous projects, including the academic search engine Voice of the Shuttle. He blogs at Writer Response Theory. His complete portfolio can be found here: http://jeremydouglass.com/

Contact: jdouglass [at]umail.ucsb.edu

Aden Evens
Aden Evens researches across a variety of disciplines, including new media studies, philosophy, mathematics, music, and literature. His teaching focuses on new media and digital technologies, but also includes forays into composition, post-structuralist theory, music, and literature, especially post-modern literature. His chief aim as a teacher is to encourage students to think critically, a skill that, with practice, transfers readily to every domain of human activity.

email: Aden.Evens [at] Dartmouth.EDU

Daniel C. Howe is a digital artist and researcher at NYU’s Media Research Lab where he is currently completing his Ph.D. thesis on generative literary systems. His recent projects include RiTa, a software toolkit for computational literature; the Bisociation Engine, an interdisciplinary attempt to model aspects of human creativity in software, and TrackMeNot, an artware intervention addressing data-profiling on the web. In addition to a background in software engineering, Daniel has master’s degrees in Literary Arts (Brown) and Interactive Media (ITP). He currently teaches in the Digital+Media program at the Rhode Island School of Design.

Mark Marino
Mark Marino produces and critiques chatbots and other new media. He has forthcoming work on digital annotation, including “Marginalia in the Library of Babel” published in New River. “Marginalia” also builds on his recent critique of annotation systems “Ulysses on Web 2.0,” forthcoming in James Joyce Quarterly.

His writings include Stravinsky’s Muse (http://www.bunkmag.com/dandg/), Labyrinth
(http://www.bunkmag.com/dandg/lab.swf), 12 Easy Lessons To Better Time Travel (PC http://www.bunkmag.com/time/introduction.html, MAC, http://www.bunkmag.com/time/introduction_mac.html). He blogs about elit on Writer Response Theory (http://writerresponsetheoy.org) and Critical Code Studies (http://criticalcodestudies.com). He is also the editor of Bunk Magazine (http://www.bunkmag.com), an online new media humor magazine. He is currently working on an adaptive hypertext novella called “a show of hands” using Literatronica (http://literatronica.org).

Marino teaches writing at the University of Southern California. He has recently been exploring techniques for using Web 2.0 technologies
in the writing classroom, where he also uses his 22 Short Films about Grammar. I (Portfolio: http://markcmarino.com/.) Mark has recently been appointed Director of Communication and Secretary for the Electronic Literature Organization.

email: mark + c + marino [at] gmail [dotted] com

Dr. Miller joined Duke Law School in August 2001 as Director of Educational Technologies. He is responsible for the support of instructional technology and the pedagogically based application of technology in the curriculum. He also directs the group responsible for the Law School web presence, video production, and classroom technology.

Prior to coming to the Law School, he served in a variety of analyst and supervisory capacities at UCLA within the Humanities Computing Facility (now the Center for Digital Humanities). Before his years at UCLA, he spent two years as a Programmer/Analyst in the UC Berkeley Workstation Software Support Group. Dr. Miller also served part-time on the faculty at UCLA as both a visiting and an adjunct assistant professor in the Germanic Languages Department. He has a PhD in German from UC Berkeley.

Rita Raley

Rita Raley researches and teaches in the areas of the digital humanities and twentieth-century literature in an “international” or “global” context. Her book, Tactical Media, a study of new media art in relation to neoliberal globalization, is under contract and forthcoming from the University of Minnesota Press in its “Electronic Mediations” series. She also continues work on Global English and the Academy, excerpts of which have been published in The Yale Journal of Criticism and Diaspora. Another book project, Reading Code, is underway, an excerpt under the title, “Code.surface || Code.depth” (see a related graduate seminar here). In the English department at UCSB, she is affiliated with the Literature and Culture of Information specialization and the Transcriptions project and currently leading a working group on “New Reading Interfaces” for Transliteracies. She has taught at the University of Minnesota and at Rice University, where she was the Lynette S. Autrey Visiting Assistant Professor of English.

Amit Ray
Amit Ray received his Ph.D. in English Language and Literature from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His areas of specialization are literary and cultural theory, colonial and postcolonial literatures and cultures, and cultural globalization.
Awarded the Paul and Francena Miller Fellowship for the 2005-06 academic year, Professor Ray has recently completed his book, Negotiating the Modern: Orientalism and Indianness in the Anglophone World, for Routledge Press.

Dr. Ray has been conducting research on wikis, authorship and authority since 2004. He has presented work on the cultural impact of wikis on the production and dissemination of knowledge, as well as on the pedagogical potential of wikis in the classroom. His interest in wikis has grown out of collaborations with students in the RIT Honors program. Along with Erhardt Graeff, he is currently working on a project that serves as a clearing house for information and research dealing with the social and cultural impact of wikis. In February he, along with several students, will be presenting an interactive lecture on wikis, authority and the public sphere as part of the Wallace Library Faculty Scholars Series. In addition, he has been working with a group of students and faculty from around the Institute to develop an online publication that queries the intersection between technology, aesthetics and culture: condu.it will be debuting in 2006.

Website: http://honors.rit.edu/~wiki/index.php/User:ProfRay

Braxton Soderman
Graduate student in Brown’s MCM dept. Interests, academic and otherwise: digital textuality, machine poetics, programming and encoding, experimental writing, history of digital media & art, net.art, cybernetics, media politics, the history of vision and visual instruments, storage & archives, the institution of theory, continental philosophy, critical thought and creative art practice, eccentric epistemologies, and “since I arrived I’ve been introduced to the quiet, sparkly fun of film studies..”

Paul Swartz
Paul Swarz is on the development team with the Participatory Culture Foundation. Paul is from Kensington, MD, but graduated with a B.A. from Hampshire College and now lives in Northampton, MA.