Craig J Saper

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Craig Saper is Professor of Texts and Technology in the English Department at the University of Central Florida. He is the author of Networked Art (2001) and Artificial Mythologies (1997), both published by the University of Minnesota Press. He has published more than 50 articles and reviews including recent chapters in Directed by Allen Smithee and The Fluxus Reader. He has edited multiple volumes, organized conferences, curated exhibits, and is on the editorial boards of a number of journals . He was previously on the faculty at Indiana and Penn, and since the late 1990s he has served first as the Director of the New Media Center and other administrative positions, and later as Associate Professor at The University of the Arts. He works with his spouse, Lynn Tomlinson

Professor Saper received his Ph.D. in English from University of Florida in 1990. His academic interests include Digital Rhetoric, Film and Media Studies, Networked Art and Literature.

Professor Saper is also an expert on the history of the Tooth Chicken.

Contents

[edit] Books

  • Artificial Mythologies: A Guide to Cultural Invention
  • Networked Art
  • The Fluxus Reader

[edit] Books in Progress

  • S/Z: The Next Translation
  • Reading Machine
  • Visceral Scholarship Online: Folkvine.org and Hypermedia Ethnography
  • Persuasive Acts: Guide to Writing in the eMedia Age (textbook; co-author with B. Mauer and T. Pugh)

[edit] Articles

  • "Blogademia," Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture 5.4 (November 2006).
  • "The Blog Report: Lack of Power in New Orleans," Rhizomes, 11 (2005).
  • "Networked Psychoanalysis: A Dialogue with Anna Freud Banana," in At A Distance: Precursors to Art and Activism on the Internet (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2005; paperback, 2007).
  • "Applicants and Captions: A Surrealist (ethnography of) academia?" Surrealist Games. University of Nebraska Press (forthcoming, 2007).
  • “The Florida School’s Legacy: The Movie,” in New Media/New Methods: The Academic Turn from Literacy to Electracy (Palaver Press, 2006, in press).
  • “The Internet’s Underware” Performance Research, 9 (1), 2004/2005: 38-42.
  • “Questions Concerning Technology: Kit-Bashing,” CultureWork: A Periodic Broadside for Arts and Culture Workers 9 (2), October 2004.
  • “Epistemologies of Doing: From Media Studies to Media Making,” Journal of Performance/Texts/Technology, issue 1 (March-April 2004).
  • “Of Spectacularization: Writing New Media Theory,” Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory, 4, 2 (April 2003).
  • “Inventing the Cinema at the Black Maria,” festival catalogue’s essay, Black Maria Film and Video Festival (20th anniversary), 2001, pp. 1-9.
  • “The Political Economy of the Allen Smithee Case,” in Directed by Allen Smithee, ed. Jeremy Braddock & Stephen Hock (The University of Minnesota Press, 2001), 29-50.
  • “Comparative Literature,” encyclopedia entry, in Routledge’s Encyclopedia of Postmodernism, ed. Victor Taylor (2001), 59-63.
  • “The Spectator,” encyclopedia entry, in Oxford University Press’s Companion to the Body (2001).
  • “Kollaborateure: Soziopoetik Seit Den Funfziger Jahren,” catalogue essay for an exhibit at the Vienna Kunsthalle, October 1999, 62-69.
  • “Spinography: From Tom Edison’s Lightbulb to Walter Benjamin’s Alarm Clock,” Strategies Vol. 12, No. 1 (Fall 1999), 13-24.
  • “Introduction: Interactive Style,” Style, 33.2 (Winter 1999), 180-183.
  • “Fluxus As A Laboratory,” in The Fluxus Reader, ed. Ken Friedman (London: Academy Press, 1998), 136-154.
  • “Intimate Bureaucracies & Infrastructuralism: A Networked Introduction to Assemblings,” Postmodern Culture, volume 7, number 3, special issue edited by Stuart Maulthrop (The Johns Hopkins University Press, May 1997), no page numbers.
  • “Under Cancellation: The Future Tone of Visual Poetry,” in Experimental-Visual-Concrete: Avant-Garde Poetry since the 1960s, ed. K. David Jackson, Eric Vos, and Johanna Drucker (Amsterdam-Atlanta, GA: Rodopi, 1997), pp. 309-316.
  • “Überfall: Mugshots in the Autobiographical,” Quiver 12 (Winter 1995), photography exhibit catalogue, 1-10.
  • “Scandalography: From Fatty’s Demise to Lacan’s Rise,” Lusitania (Winter 1993): pp. 87-100.
  • “A Nervous Theory: The Troubling Gaze of Psychoanalysis in Media Studies” diacritics (Summer 1992): pp. 33-52.
  • “Fluxacademy: From Intermedia to Interactive Education,” Visible Language, Special issue on Fluxus vol. 26, number 1/2 (Winter/Spring 1992): pp. 79-96.
  • “Electronic Media Studies,” SubStance (December 1992): pp. 114-134.
  • “Learning From Being Lost,” Journal of Urban and Cultural Studies, volume 1, number 2 (Fall 1990): pp. 67-86.
  • “Using an Art Exhibit to Teach Cultural Studies and Literary Theory,” The Latin Americanist, volume 25, number 2 (May 1990): pp. 8-10.
  • “The Music of Visual Poetry and Architecture,” (on Bernard Tschumi's work) Yearbook of Interdisciplinary Studies in the Fine Arts, volume 1 (Spring 1989): pp. 155-170.
  • “How to Read A Concrete Poem,” catalog essay for Brazilian Concrete & Visual Poetry from The Ruth & Marvin Sackner Archive (University of Florida, March, 1989).
  • “Instant Theory: Making Thinking Popular,” Visible Language, volume 22, number 4 (Spring 1989): pp. 371-398.
  • On Being Read (Madison, Wisconsin: Moon(kosh) Press, 1985). Distributed through Printed Matter, New York. In the permanent “artist’s book” collection of the Museum Of Modern Art, NYC.

[edit] Review Essays

  • High Techne: Art and Technology from the Machine Aesthetic to the Posthuman, R. L. Rutsky, in Symploke 10.1-2 (2002) 229-231.
  • Autoaffection: Unconscious Thought in the Age of Teletechnology, Patricia Ticineto Clough, in Anthropology and Humanism (Summer 2001).

[edit] Editorial Positions

  • 2006 Guest co-Editor, Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge. Special issue on Drifting. [in process/Fall 2006]
  • 2005- Media Editor, Hyperrhiz: New Media Cultures.
  • 2005- Editorial Board, Journal of E-Media Studies, a blind peer-reviewed, on-line interdisciplinary journal dedicated to the scholarly study of the history and theory of electronic media.
  • 2004- Reviews Editor, Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge. Reviews may be of websites, new technologies, events, installations, and conferences as well as scholarly books.
  • 2002- Editorial Board, Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge, a peer-reviewed journal, promotes experimental work located outside current disciplines. Peer reviewed.
  • 1998-2001 Guest Editor, Style, 33.2, “Interactive Style,” As an introduction to the emerging field of new media studies, the essays in this issue chart the changes underway in the reception of new media and interactive narrative. Contributors include: Stuart Moulthrop, Beverley Curran, Helen Thorington, Marsha Kinder, Barbara Hayes-Roth, R. L. Rutsky, Jon McKenzie, Mark C. Taylor, and others.

[edit] Scholarly Papers Presented

  • "Erotic TV Book Machine of 1929," video-essay for Modernist studies Association, October, 2006.
  • "The Digital Quilt Project as a Model for Tactile Scholarship," Orange County History Center, Orlando, March 3, 2006.
  • “Folkvine.org: Art of/through Interface.” College Art Association, Boston, February 2006.
  • “Reading for Pleasure,” Cognitive Science Colloquim, UCF, February 2004.
  • “Introduction: Simulated Identities,” Beyond VR: Simulated Identities conference/workshop, UCF, December 2003.
  • “Introduction: Eduardo Kac,” Beyond VR: Simulated Identities conference/workshop, UCF, December 2003.
  • "Intersectionalities within Interdentality and Pulletian Criticisms," NTCHA, Springfield, December 2003.
  • “Concluding Remarks and Summary,” “Introduction: Simulated Identities,” Beyond VR: Simulated Identities conference/workshop, UCF, December 2003.
  • "Networked Art and International Channeling: Lettrist Poems,” College Art Association, Philadelphia, February 2002.
  • “The Internet’s Underwear: The Work [and Play] of Craft in the Age of Electronic Distribution,” a dialogue in collaboration with Laura Trippi, College Art Association, Philadelphia, February 2002.
  • “Networked Economies: The Case of Boggs’ Bills,” Modern Language Association, New Orleans, December 2001.

[edit] Creative Monograph

  • On Being Read (Madison, Wisconsin: Moon(kosh) Press, 1985). Distributed through Printed Matter, NYC. In the permanent “artist’s book” collection of the Museum Of Modern Art, NYC.

[edit] Digital Media Projects

  • “Outside In: Schooling, Kit-Bashing, Quilting, & Clowning Around Online,” video-essay (designed with Lynn Tomlinson), originally screened in New York City at the School of Visual Arts Eighteenth Annual National Conference on Liberal Arts and the Education of Artists. The theme for 2004's conference was "Art and Story." This new media project appears online at http://www.folkvine.org/sva.html
  • Folkvine. The ultimate goal of our work is to change the way we think about art and about how we present the stories of artists' lives and work. We design our websites to look, feel, and sound like an analogy for each artist, their life story and the story of their work and community. By using interactivity and linking the sites to their aesthetic sensibility, we seek to present models for online scholarship, ethnographic internet design, and the pleasures of the web. http://www.folkvine.org

[edit] Interviews

Micael Pelton