Dr. Carolyn Guertin
Assistant Professor of Digital Media
Contact
- Personal Website
- Photographic Portfolio
- Email Dr. Guertin
- Skype ID: carolyn_guertin
Office
- Carlisle Hall, 617
- eCreate Lab (Preston Hall, 311)
Years of Service at UT Arlington
- Assistant Professor, (2006-Present)
Education
- PhD, University of Alberta, 2003
- MA, University of Western Ontario, 1996
- BA Honors, University of Western Ontario, 1995
Current Research
Digital media, copyright, digital aesthetics, global cultures, visualization, cultural studies, mobile technologies, augmented reality, hacktivism, cyberfeminism
UTA Courses
- 2008
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- English 3374: Writing, Rhetoric, & Multimedia Authoring I
- English 4377: Freeze-Frame: Technology, Narrative & Time
- Workshop: Digital Research Methods
- 2007
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- English 3372: Computers & Fiction Writing
- English 3374: Writing, Rhetoric, & Multimedia Authoring I
- English 5330: Convergence Culture
- English 5380: Information Aesthetics
Recent Publications
Print or Fixed Media
- [forthcoming] Digital Prohibition: Piracy and Authorship in New Media Art. New York and London: International Publishing Group. Forthcoming 2012.
- [forthcoming] “Seeing Story and Mapping Narrative.” Electronic Literature Pedagogies. Karlskrona, Sweden: Blekinge Tekniska Högskola / Blekinge Institute of Technology (BTH), Conference Proceedings, 2011.
- [forthcoming] With Professor Jesús Octavio Elizondo. “Acoustic Space, Territories and Borderlines: Art as Locative Media That Saves Lives.” McLuhan Galaxy: Understanding Media Today.Conference Proceedings. Barcelona 2011. http://www.digitalrumors.net/mcluhangalaxybcn11/?page_id=64
- [forthcoming] "Mobile Bodies, Zones of Attention and Tactical Media Interventions." Activist Media and Biopolitics: Critical Media Interventions in the Age of Biopower. Conference Proceedings University of Innsbruck, 2011. 17 pp.
- [forthcoming] “Media Literacy” and “Convergence”. Encyclopedia of Media and Communications. Marcel Danesi, Ed. University of Toronto Press. 2012.
- “Getting in Touch: Marshall McLuhan, Augmenting the Human and The Haptic Sense.” Journal Revista Iberoamericana de Comunicación/Latin American Journal of Communications. (2010).
- “Beyond The Threshold: The Dynamic Interface as Permeable Technology.” Transdisciplinary Digital Art: Sound, Vision and the New Screen. CCIS (Communications in Computer and Communication Science) Series. Randy Adams, Steve Gibson & Stefan Muller Arisona, Eds. Germany: Springer Publishers. 2008. 313-325.
- “All The Rage: The Digital Body and Deadly Play in the Age of the Suicide Bomber.” There’s A Gunman on Campus: Tragedy and Terror at Virginia Tech. Ben Agger and Timothy W. Luke, Eds. New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2008. pp. 215-230. [Revised and expanded version of article published in fastcapital.com]
- “Handholding, Remixing, & the Instant Replay: New Narratives in a Postnarrative World.” Blackwell Companion to Digital Literary Studies. Ray Siemens and Susan Schriebman, Eds. New York and London: Basil Blackwell, 2007. 233-249. Reprinted online (#12) at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/companionDLS
- “Narrative Architectures After the Book: New Containers & Standards for Stories in Digital Culture.” International Journal of the Book. Vol 2.Beijing, Melbourne, and New York: Common Ground, 2006. 1-13.
- “Queer Hybrids: Cosmopolitanism and Embodied Arts.” Hybrid: Living in Paradox. Ars Electronica 2005. G. Stocker & C. Schöpf, Eds.Osterfildern-Ruit, Germany: Hatje Cantz, 2005. 166-169.
- “Multi-Dimensional Dementia: M.D. Coverley’s Califia and the Aesthetics of Forgetting.” Zazil 2_02. San Diego: (Sept 2001). PDF. 6 pp. http://www.factoryschool.org/zazil/z2.html
- “Gesturing Toward the Visual: Virtual Reality, Hypertext & Embodied Feminist Criticism.” Surfaces VIII (Montréal, Dec 99): 1-18. PDF. http://www.pum.umontreal.ca/revues/surfaces/vol8/vol8TdM.html
Online
- [forthcoming] “From Complicity to Interactivity: Theories of Feminist Game Play.” CHWP: Computing in the Humanities Working Papers. (2011?).
- “All The Rage: The Digital Body and Deadly Play in the Age of the Suicide Bomber.” Fast Capitalism 3.1(Summer 2007). http://www.fastcapitalism.com/
- “Wanderlust: The Kinesthetic Browser in Cyberfeminist Space.” Extensions Journal.Vol 3. (Jan 2007). http://www.performancestudies.ucla.edu/extensionsjournal/guertin.htm
- “From Cyborgs to Hacktivists: Postfeminist Disobedience and Virtual Communities.” Electronic Book Review. (Jan 2005). http://www.electronicbookreview.com/thread/writingpostfeminism/hackpacifist
- “Gliding Bodies: Cyberfeminism, Interactivity and Slattery’s Collabyrinth.” Cyberfeminism Issue. Artwomen.org. (Jan 03). http://www.artwomen.org/cyberfems/index.htm
- “Machine Dreams and Webbed Arts: Urban Process in Subtextual Circulation.” Text: Writing Online/ Online Writing. Vol 5, #1, Special Issue #2. Australia. (April 01). http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/traced/guertin/machine/
- With Marjorie C. Luesebrink. “The Progressive Dinner Party: A showcase of 39 women web.artists and hypertext authors, with commentary by N. Katherine Hayles & Talan Memmott.” Riding the Meridian, Women and Technology Issue. (Feb 00) http://www.heelstone.com/meridian/templates/Dinner/predinner.htm
- “Three-Dimensional Dementia: M.D. Coverley’s Califia and the Aesthetics of Forgetting.” Riding the Meridian, Women and Technology Issue. (Feb 00). http://www.heelstone.com/meridian/guertin/3DD1.htm *(Revised & reprinted: “Multi-Dimensional Dementia” in print journal zazil, San Diego, 01).
- “Three-Dimensional Woman: The Visual Discourses of Female Desire in Nicole Brossard’s Holographic Hyperfiction.” Illustrated. Electronic Book Review 7 (Summer 98): 25 pp. http://altx.com:80/ebr/ebr7/ebr7.htm
- “Queen Bees and the Hum of the Hive: An Overview of Feminist Hypertext’s Subversive Honeycombings.” BeeHive 01:#02 (Summer 98). 52 pp Cyber Excellence Award-winning issue, Aug 98 http://www.temporalimage.com/beehive/content_apps02/qb.html
Professional Memberships
- MLA
- Electronic Literature Organization
- Society for Photographic Educators
Awards & Honors
- Shortlisted, The Worldwide Photography Gala Awards/The Pollux Awards 2010. “Toward Amarillo” and “Night Advances”, Landscape Category, Non-Professional. (Out of 18,912 entries.)
- "Storm over Ghost Ranch", Silver Award 2010, Landscape Category, International Aperture Awards (photography)
- "Sanctuary", Bronze Award 2009, Landscape Category, International Aperture Awards (photography)
Department/University Committees
- Chair, Media and Technology Committee
- Travel Committee
- Alumni Committee
- Humanities Center Committee
Graduate Program Affiliations
- Faculty, Summer MFA Program
- Transart Institute, Danube
- University Krems, Austria
- Program Associate, Athabasca University, Canada
Editorial Boards
- Convergence, UK
- MediaTropes, Canada