LCC NEWS
DM Game Design Featured in AJC Article
(Published: 25 Sep 2008)
An
article in the Atlanta Journal Constitution on Sunday September 21, 2008 quoted DM Professors Janet Murray and Celia Pearce and DM MS alumna Kate Compton.
Pollock article, "The Internal Cardiac Defibrillator," Published by MIT
(Published: 24 Sep 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.
Planet-creating DM MS alumna Kate Compton
(Published: 12 Sep 2008)
This
video from her SIGGRAPH presentation shows some of the cool planet-making Kate did for SPORE.
Will Wright's SPORE released
(Published: 5 Sep 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.
Farley Receives PERFORMA Fellowship
(Published: 1 Sep 2008)
Brittain Post-Doctoral Fellow Kathryn Farley has been awarded the PERFORMA 09 Research Fellowship.
PERFORMA is a multidisciplinary arts organization dedicated to exploring the critical role of live performance in twentieth-century art. Kathryn will conduct research for commissioned projects involving the integration of art and technology for presentation at the 2009 biennial of new visual art performance in New York City.
Farley was also elected to the boards of two Atlanta arts organizations: Dad’s Garage Theatre Company and the Atlanta Contemporary Arts Center.
Mollie Earns Certification as Therapy Dog
(Published: 29 Jul 2008)
It's not often that LCC can recognize a non-human, but Mollie, a border collie belonging to Brittain Fellow Allison Whitney, recently passed the examination to become a therapy dog.
Mollie and Allison will be going to hospitals and nursing homes as well as to schools in the area.
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.
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.
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.
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/
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.
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.
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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