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Nam June Paik
Nam June Paik (July 20, 1932 – January 29, 2006) was a Korean American artist. He worked with a variety of media and is considered to be the founder of video art. He is credited with an early usage (1974) of the term "electronic super highway" in application to telecommunications.
(source: Wikipedia)
Hannah Ackermans - 05.04.2016 - 15:38
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Scott McCloud
Scott McCloud (born Scott McLeod on June 10, 1960) is an American cartoonist and comics theorist. He is best known for his non-fiction books about comics, Understanding Comics (1993), Reinventing Comics (2000), and Making Comics (2006).
(source: Wikipedia)
Hannah Ackermans - 07.04.2016 - 14:23
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Jonathan Culler
Jonathan Culler came to Cornell in 1977 as Professor of English and Comparative Literature and in 1982 succeeded M.H. Abrams in the Class of 1916 Chair.
His Structuralist Poetics: Structuralism, Linguistics, and the Study of Literature, won MLA’s Lowell Prize and established his reputation as analyst and expositor of critical theory. Now known especially for On Deconstruction and Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction (which has been translated into some 20 languages), he has completed a book entitled Theory of the Lyric, to be published by Harvard University Press in the spring of 2015..
Professor Culler has been President of the American Comparative Literature Association and chair of the departments of English, Comparative Literature, and Romance Studies at Cornell, as well as Senior Associate Dean of Arts and Sciences. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2001 and to the American Philosophical Society in 2006. He currently serves as Secretary of the American Council of Learned Societies.
Hannah Ackermans - 26.07.2016 - 09:44
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Porpentine Charity Heartscape
Porpentine Charity Heartscape is a writer, game designer, cyber hellscape dung beetle, and trash woman, whose games and curation contributed to the contemporary hypertext renaissance and the popularity of accessible text art software Twine.
She's won the XYZZY and Indiecade awards, had her work displayed at EMP Museum and The Museum of the Moving Image, been profiled by the NYTimes, commissioned by Vice,
the New Inquiry, and Rhizome, and she is a 2016 Creative Capital Emerging Fields and 2016 Sundance Institute’s New Frontier Story Lab fellow.
(Source: http://slimedaughter.com/cv.html)Susanne Dahl - 08.09.2016 - 11:53
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Keith Obadike
Keith Obadike was born in Nashville, Tennessee. His mother worked as an administrator at the Post Office and his father (who studied briefly with inventor Buckminster Fuller) was an electrical engineer from Nigeria. While growing up in Nashville, Keith studied classical piano, woodwinds and began programming BASIC on a TRS-80 computer. As a teenager he became a sought after sound designer and producer on the local hip-hop scene. He later joined the experimental, New York based Modern Hip-Hop Quartet as guitarist and producer. He was subsequently discovered by Kedar Massenburg (Motown Records president) and was signed to MCA records where he worked with R&B artists such as D'Angelo and Angie Stone and Hip-Hop as well as performed in concert with Lauryn Hill/ the Fugees and P-Funk. He later met and was influenced by electronic music composers like Paul Lansky and Olly Wilson while working at Duke University. Keith went on to study painting and digital art at North Carolina Central University and later became the first African-American to earn an MFA in Sound Design from Yale University.
Magnus Knustad - 22.09.2016 - 15:47
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Mark Boog
Mark Boog was awarded the 2000 C. Buddingh’ Prize for new Dutch-language poetry for his debut collection Alsof er iets gebeurt (As if Something is Happening). He has since been publishing at high speed, certainly for a poet who boasts about his strong penchant for idleness: three novels and three new volumes of poetry, the latest of which, De encyclopedie van de grote woorden (The Encyclopaedia of Big Words) won the prestigious VSB Poetry Prize in 2006.
(Source: Poetry International Web)
Hannah Ackermans - 07.12.2016 - 14:38
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Eleonora Acerra
Eleonora Acerra has a PhD in Literature and Education, obtained at the University of Montpellier (France). Her main reseach interest concerns children's digital literature, e-literary education and multimodality. Her doctoral project was part of the LiNum projet, which was aimed at developing educational contents for studying digital literature at the primary school. She currently is a post-doctoral researcher at the Université du Québec à Montréal.
Hannah Ackermans - 08.12.2016 - 15:05
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Yan Zheng
Yan Zheng is a PhD student from the University of Glasgow. Her research investigates the narrative strategies of story apps for children. She questions how the mechanism of storytelling works and what impact such mechanism may have on the reception and perception of the story. She is interested in different affordances of different media concerning storytelling, and also the similarities of storytelling on different platforms. Yan has an MPhil degree on children’s literature from the University of Cambridge in 2012 when she started to have great interest in stories told in picture book format. In 2014, Yan worked with a French digital publisher in developing a story app, The Great Ghost Chase. Yan also tests apps for Nosy Crow, a British independent children’s publisher. Currently she is doing her PhD research in distance in Cambridge MA in the United States. (Source: author's bio ICDMT 2016)
Hannah Ackermans - 12.12.2016 - 14:35
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Neil Gaiman
Neil Gaiman's work has been honoured with many awards internationally, including the Newbery and Carnegie Medals. His books and stories have also been honoured with 4 Hugos, 2 Nebulas, 1 World Fantasy Award, 4 Bram Stoker Awards, 6 Locus Awards, 2 British SF Awards, 1 British Fantasy Award, 3 Geffens, 1 International Horror Guild Award and 2 Mythopoeic Awards. Full list here.
(Source: http://www.neilgaiman.com/About_Neil)
Hannah Ackermans - 07.02.2017 - 15:24
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Lena Susanne Ristesund Silseth
Student in humanities at the University of Bergen (Digital Culture). Born in Bergen, but lived in Narvik for four years studying computer engineering.
Lena Silseth - 24.08.2017 - 14:36
