Curriculum Vitae

Education
May 2000	MFA, Literary Arts, Brown University
May 1998	BA, Languages & Literature, Bard College

Work
Fall 2014 – present	Associate Professor, Art & Technology Studies, School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC)
Fall 2012 – present	Cofounder, Writer & Technologist, Anatomical Theatres of Mixed Reality (ATOM-r), performance collective
January – March 2016	Guest Faculty, Breathing Matters: Poetics & Politics of Air, University of Chicago
August 2013 – June 2014	Fulbright Scholar & Visiting Professor, University of Bergen, Norway
Fall 2002 – Spring 2013	Adjunct Associate Professor, Art & Technology Studies & Writing, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Fall 2010	Adjunct faculty in English, New Media Writing, Lake Forest College

Performances, Exhibitions & Lectures

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Publications
Magazine (online)	Liner Notes, featured electronic writing work for The Digital Review (September, 2022)
Anthology (online)	Kjell Theory, The Electronic Literature Organization Collection, Vol.4 (forthcoming, 2022)
Book Chapter	The Tenders: Cover to Cover - Liner Notes, w/ Mark Jeffery and Abraham Avnisan, in Performance in a Pandemic. / Laura Bissell (Editor); Lucy Weir (Editor), Routledge, 2022.
Book Chapter	Place Taking Place: Temporary Poetic Theaters, in Electronic Literature as Digital Humanities: Contexts, Forms & Practices. / Grigar Dene (Editor); James O’sullivan (Editor), Bloomsbury Press, 2021. Invited contribution.
Essay in Magazine	Tender Operations: A Collaborative Poetics, w/ Mark Jeffery and Abraham Avnisan, in Lumpen Magazine, Winter 2020
Book Chapter	Kjell Theory: Prologue to an Anatomical Theatre of Mixed Surrealitys, in The body in Language: An Anthology. / Edwin Torres (Editor), Counterpath Press, 2019
Book Chapter	Machines in Queer Gardens: Performance as Mixed Surreality, in Experiencing Liveness in Contemporary Performance: interdisciplinary Perspectives. / Lindelof, Anja Mølle (Editor); Reason, Matthew (Editor). Routledge, 2016. (Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies). Invited contribution.
Essay in Journal	Operations in Mixed Reality, in Hybridities: The Intersections between Performance, Science and the Digital, edition of International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media, Editors: Nedelkopoulou, Eirini and Oliver, Mary (2014). Invited contribution.
Performance Documentation	The Operature, Contempory Performance Almanac (links to pdf), NY, 2014
Artists' Book	The Operature, (60-page augmented reality book), special edition: Pinups Magazine, NY, 2013
Visual Poem	The Last Performance (generated outputs), LIT Magazine #22: The Journal of the New School Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing (September 2012)
Anthology (online)	The Last Performance [dot org], The Electronic Literature Organization Collection, Vol.2 (2012)
Performance Documentation	The Precession, Emergency Index #2, Ugly Duckling Presse, (Fall 2012)
Artists' Pages	Fault Tactical Network, Judd Morrissey & Mark Jeffery, Frackcija #50: Misperformance (2009)
Anthology (online & cd)	The Jew's Daughter, The Electronic Literature Organization Collection, Vol.1 (2006)
Artists' Pages	The Mooring of Richard Anynumber, Judd Morrissey & Mark Jeffery, Frackcija #39-40: On Labor (2006)
Artist's Pages	from The Error Engine, Performance Research vol.9, no.2: On The Page (2004)
Artists' Pages	Goat Island: School, Church, Gym, Frackcija #32-35: A companion to Goat Island's "When will the september roses bloom? Last night was only a comedy" (2004)
Hypermedia CD	My Name is Captain, Captain. Eastgate Systems (2002)

Grants, Commissions & Awards
August 2017	Trust for Mutual Understanding Cultural Grant (to support a three-part exchange between Every house has a door, Chicago-based performance and technology collective ATOM-r, and Prague’s Handa Gote Theatre)
April 2017, 2014, 2012, 2006, & 2004	Faculty Enrichment Grant, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
February 2017	Links Hall Midwest Nexus Touring Award (ATOM-r)
January 2016	Andrew Mellon Collaborative Fellowship for Arts Practice & Scholarship
May 2014	Inter-European Travel Grant, Portugal Fulbright Commission
October 2013	Inter-European Travel Grant, UK Fulbright Commission
October 2013	Creative Futures Initiative Grant, King's College, London
September 2013	Fulbright Travel Grant, Norwegian Fulbright Commission
April 2013	Fulbright Scholar's Award in Digital Culture
July 2011	ELMCIP (Electronic Literature as a Model of Creativity and Innovation in Practice) Commission for The Final Problem
September 2010	Nightjar Commission for The Labours funded by Igniting Ambition Commission Grant, Legacy Trust UK / European Regional Development Fund & Arts Council England
May 2010	Illinois Arts Council, Individual Artist Support Initiative Grant
April 2009	Illinois Arts Council Governor's International Exchange Program Grant
May 2008	Juror's Bursory Award, Visionary Landscapes: Electronic Literature Organization Media Arts Show
January 2007	Creative Capital / Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writing Grant
April 2006	Chicago Artist’s Assistance Program (CAAP) Grant in Multi-Arts category
January 2005	Illinois Arts Council Fellowship in Interdisciplnary/Computer Arts
June 2000	ASCI (Art + Science Collaborations, NYC), Digital 2000 Award, Net.art

Workshops & Residencies
June 2021 (2019 - ongoing)	Invited In-person ATOM-r residency, Living within the Play Poor Farm, Little Wolf, Wisconsin
January 2020 - December 2021	Invited ATOM-r residency, Buddy Research and Performance Residency, Season 1 - Re:place, Co-prosperity Sphere and Chicago Cultural Center
January 6 - 20, 2020	Invited ATOM-r residency at Beauborg Theatre, New Orleans
March 8, 2019	Invited ATOM-r performance writing workshop, University of Auckland, NZ
November 21 - 27, 2019	Invited ATOM-r residency and workshop for York St John University students, Performing House @ Spark, York, UK
October 2 - November 3, 2019	Invited ATOM-r residency at McCormick Bridgehouse and Chicago River Museum, Chicago
January 20-24, 2018	Invited 4-day artist's workshop for University of the Arts Helsinki
January 18-19, 2018	Invited 2-day artist's workshop for launch of Centre for Research in Digital Storymaking at London Southbank University
April 10-22, 2017	Helsinki UniArts Student Exchange, augmented poetics workshop and cross-institutional exchange, SAIC, Chicago
March 11, 2017	New Poetics of Space, invited workshop for Performing, Writing, Massey University, Wellington, NZ
April 7 – 8, 2017	ATOM-r workshop and guest critiques, Creative Practices Group, University of Michigan (invited)
October 8, 2016	ATOM-r workshop: New Anatomies of Space, Light Box, Detroit (invited)
May 28 – June 18, 2016	ATOM-r invited week-long workshop and artists' residency, University of Chichester, UK
May 16-20, 2016	ATOM-r invited week-long workshop and artists' residency, University of Helsinki, Finland
January 2016 - January 2017	ATOM-r invited residency at International Museum of Surgical Science, Chicago
September 2013 - January 2016	ATOM-r invited residency at National Museum of Health and Medicine, Chicago
April 5-9, 2013	ATOM-r workshop and artists' residency, York St. John University, York, UK
October 17-22, 2013	ATOM-r workshop and artists' residency, King's College, London, UK
October 24-25, 2013	ATOM-r workshop, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
Oct. 22 - Nov. 1, 2012	Artist-in-residence, Edinburgh College of Art
October 22-24, 2012	Artists' workshop, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Glasgow
August – December 2012	Virtual Writer-in-Residence, LIT Magazine
February 13-16, 2012	workshop, Arizona State University
December 18 – January 4, 2011	Rehearsal residency at Defibrillator Gallery, Chicago
November 10-11, 2011	Visiting Artist, Northwestern University, Department of Art, Theory & Practice
June 13-16, 2011	workshop and residency, Visiting Artist, Choreographic Lab, University of Nottingham, UK
October 22 – Nov. 10, 2010	Online Residency at TextofTheDay conceptual blog
February 2 - December 18, 2010	Artist-in-Residence, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago
February 2-April 2, 2010	Catwalk Art Residency, Catskill, NY
December 7-10, 2009	Visiting Artist, CU Boulder Department of English and Creative Writing
August 10-25, 2009	Catwalk Art Residency, Catskill, NY
July 21-30, 2009	Visiting Artist, Azusa Pacific University
June 7-21, 2009	Visiting Artist, Dartington College of Arts, Performance Writing MA program, UK
May 15-20, 2009	Visiting Artist, Firehouse 13, Providence, RI
August 14-30, 2007	In-residence with Goat Island at Museum of Contemporary Art Theater, Chicago
June 11-22, 2007	In-residence with Goat Island at Teatre &TD, Zagreb, Croatia
January 8-26, 2007	In-residence with Goat Island at Alfred ve Dvore Theater, Prague
June 19 - Jul 3, 2006	Catwalk Art Residency, Catskill, NY
May 20-24, 2006	Visiting Artist, Brown University, Literary Arts Program, Providence, RI
August 16 - September 1, 2005	Catwalk Art Residency, Catskill, NY
December 24 - January 7	Roger Brown Residency, New Buffalo, MI, US
June 2002	Writer in Residence, CrudeOils.us
November 8-10, 2002	Visiting Artist, University of Buffalo, English Department, Buffalo, NY

Curatorial & Organzing
November 3 - 4, 2017	Queering Ritual, York St John University, York, UK
March - June, 2014	Code157: Electronic Literature Reading Series, Bergen Bibliotek, Bergen, Norway
April 13, 2013	The Book that Was to Come, readings, The Poetry Center, Chicago Cultural Center
February 1 – March 23, 2011	The Simulationists: Mixed Reality Performance, co-curated with Claudia Hart & Mark Jeffery, exhibition at Betty Rymer Gallery with performances and symposium at SAIC
December 5-6, 2009	Streamflow Conditions + TIMESTAMP: Live Writing, curated for Subito Press, Boulder, Co
June 24-28, 2009	Fault Tactical Network co-curated with Mark Jeffery in conjunction with the Performance Studies International Conference, Zagreb, Croatia. Performances by Claudia Hart, cris cheek, Jerome Fletcher and the two curators
February 4-25, 2007	OPENPORT 2007: International Festival of Performance, Sound, & Language co-curated with Nathan Butler, Mark Jeffery & Lori Talley, performances at Links Hall and a symposium at SAIC, Chicago

Review Committees & Advisory Boards
2021	Invited external tenure review for Joel Swanson, Atlas Center at CU Boulder
2020	Invited external tenure review for Liss LaFleur, University of North Texas Department of Studio Art
2020	Invited Juror for Illinois Arts Council Fellowship Program in Interdisciplinary/Computer-Based Arts
2017	Invited to organize the arts program for the Electronic Literature Organization (ELO) Conference & Festival 2019 in Chicago
2017	Invited peer review editor for the journal Humanities special issue, "The Poetics of Computation"
2017	Invited to co-organize the next iteration of the Performing, Writing sympoisum in Chicago with colleagues Mark Jeffery, Lin Hixson, and Matthew Goulish
2017	Artistic Review Committee, Electronic Literature Organization (ELO) Arts Program 2017, Porto, Portugal
2017	Peer Review Committee, Performing, Writing: A Symposium in Four Turns, Wellington, New Zealand
2017	Artistic Review Committee, ISEA: International Symposium of Electronic Arts, Manizales, Colombia
2016, 2015, 2014	Fulbright Application Reviewer, Career + Professional Experience Center, SAIC
2016	Low-Residency MFA Search Committee, SAIC
2015-16	Liberal Arts Science Search Committee, SAIC
2015-16	Artistic Review Committee, ISEA: International Symposium of Electronic Arts, Hong Kong
2015	Artistic Review Committee, ELO 2015: The Ends of Electronic Literature, Bergen, Norway
2014	Faculty Adviser and Juror, New Blood VIII Festival, Department of Exhibitions and Exhibition
2011-ongoing	Electronic Literature Organization, Literary Advisory Board
2010	Grant Reviewer, Creative Capital / Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant
2010, 2011	Grant Reviewer, Community Arts Assistance Program (CAAP grant, City of Chicago
2008-2010	Proposal Reviewer, Links Hall Artistic Associates Program, Chicago

Visiting Artist in Classrooms
April 2021	Digital Poetry Rutgers-Camden University, New Jersey, professor: Claire Donato
February 2016	The Tablet in The Cave, SAIC Art & Technology Studies, Chicago, professor: Abraham Avnisan
April 2015	Graduate Critique Seminar, SAIC Art & Technology Studies, Chicago, professor: Heather Dewey-Hagborg
February 2015	Bodies & Technologies, SAIC Sculpture department, Chicago, professor: Matthew Morris
August 2013	Collaborative Creativity in New Media, University of Bergen, Norway, professor: Scott Rettberg
September 2010	Text off the Page, SAIC Writing Program, professor: Ellen Rothenberg
October 2010	Albums, Records, and Logbooks, SAIC Writing department, professor: Sally Alatalo
May 2010	Poetry Of and Off the Page, University of Chicago, professor: Jennifer Scappettone
October 2008	Wired Writing, SAIC Art and Technology Studies Program, professor: Tiffany Holmes
September 2008	New Media Studies, University of Bergen, Norway, professor: Scott Rettberg
October 2007	Documentation now & then: other versions, SAIC Performance dept., professor: Fiona Wright
October 2007	Electronic Writing, Brown University, professor: Brian Kim Stefans

Selected Bibliography

In Books

Interviews, Essays, & Reviews