Jeremy Douglass

Digital text art, contemporary fiction, narrative and new media
Researcher in Software Studies, U. California San Diego
   in affiliation with CRCA, Calit2, and the Department of Visual Arts.
Ph.D in English, UC Santa Barbara
jeremydouglass@gmail.com

Full Curriculum Vitae [PDF] [RTF]

Latest

Intersecting Approaches to Electronic Literature: Close-Reading Code, Content, and Cartographies in William Poundstone's Project for the Tachistoscope: [Bottomless Pit] Close-Reading Code, Content, and Cartographies in William Poundstone's "Project for the Tachistoscope"

[PDF] [Keynote] [notes]
Comparing visual programming to examples in the visual arts What Counts as Code to Criticize? interpreting flow control and natural language programming

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Decomposing Freakangels into a panel sequence Cultural Analytics: webcomics and video games (guest material during Lev Manovich keynote address)

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Publications

Selected images from the dissertation Command Lines:
Aesthetics and Technique in Interactive Fiction and New Media

[Ph.D. dissertation]
Shade, the interactive fiction by Andrew Plotkin Enlightening Interactive Fiction: Andrew Plotkin's Shade

[RTF] [web]
Excerpt from Benchmark Fiction: Conway's Life as plot resolution Benchmark Fiction: a Framework for Comparative New Media Studies

[PDF]
Cover art to Book and Volume by Nick Montfort Book and Volume: an interview with author Nick Montfort

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Conference Papers and Presentations

Poster session for Context Tree Sculpting e-poetry in fractal space:
Context Tree

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Shade, the interactive fiction by Andrew Plotkin Tag Clouds: Reading the poetic interface

[MP4]
Slide from The Experience of Error, comparing perceived and doable affordances The Experience of Error: Frustration Aesthetics via False Affordances

[web]
Slide from Benchmark Fiction, evoking a hypothetical framework for comparing new media forms Benchmark Fiction

[PDF]
Slide from The Architecture of Disability, listing constrained protagonists in interactive fiction The Architecture of Disability: Alienation in Interactive Fiction Protagonists

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Slide from The Implied Code, defining implied code as the reader's mental model of an interactive work The Implied Code: the Riddle of Reading Interactive Fiction

[PDF]
Abstract from Humane Text, on Digital Retroactions website Humane Text, Markdown, and Reading Machines for our Digital Archives

[web]
 

Conferences Organized

Flyer for 2004 Los Angeles conference Narr@tive: Digital Reading, U. California system graduate conference in digital culture Narr@tive:
Digital Reading
Logo for 2003 Washington DC conference Copyright and the Networked Computer Copyright and the Networked Computer
Homepage for 2003 Santa Barbara conference e(x)literature e(x)literature
Homepage for 2002 Santa Barbara conference Entertainment Value Entertainment Value
Homepage for 2002 Santa Barbara conference Interfacing Knowledge Interfacing Knowledge
 

Selected Teaching and Guest Lectures

Course logo for Literations: lists in literation ENGL10LCI
Literations: Lists in Literature
Lecture slide detail from Passwords, image of the west gate of Moria from Fellowship of the Ring film. Symposium Lecture: You Must Remember This: Passwords in Contemporary Computer Culture
Lecture slide detail from Time and the Digital Image, scanner photography by Michael Golemboswki Guest Lecture:
Time and the Digital Image: Blur, Jitter, Scan
Book cover image from The Inform Beginner's Guide by Firth and Kesserich, one of the works excerpted in the IF reader packet. On Interactive Fiction: Transcriptions Reading Group
 

Selected Projects

Homepage of research blog WRT: Writer Response Theory Research Blog:
Writer Response Theory
One fractal arrangement of text from McKenzie Wark's book Gamer Theory Gamer, Textually:
a text visualization artwork on Gamer Theory
Cover art for essay and bibliography: floating block-world Self Organizing Maps: a tourist's guide to neural network (re)presentation(s)
Illustraction from hypertext essay Constrained Authorings Hypertext Essay: Constrained Authorings
 

Research Assistance

Homepage, Voice of the Shuttle Voice of the Shuttle, a web site for humanities research
Homepage, UCSB English Department UCSB English Department
Homepage, Digital Cultures Multi-Campus Research Group Digital Cultures Multi-Campus Research Group
Homepage, Transcriptions Project Transcriptions Project
 

Service

Conference advisory review list, perthDAC 2006: The Future of Digital Media Culture Digital Arts and Culture 2007
Screenshot of hosted courses list on WRT Courseware hosting and support
 

Professional Memberships

EFF logo AOIR
Association of Internet Researchers
EFF logo EFF
Electronic Frontier Foundation
EFF logo ELO
Electronic Literature Organization
EFF logo Rhizome
 

Creative Work

He Began: She Ended, an animated stretchtext poem by Jeremy Douglass He Began: She Ended
an animated stretchtext poem

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