Samantha Gorman 3470 McClintock Avenue SCI Suite 101 Los Angeles, CA 900892211 401.497.4699 [email protected] http://samanthagorman.net/ EDUCATION University of Southern California – School of Cinematic Arts, Los Angeles, CA, current Ph.D. in Media Arts + Practice Brown University, Providence, RI, 2010
M.F.A. in Literary Arts – Digital Language Arts Brown University, Providence, RI,
2006 B.A. Honors in Literary Arts
B.A. Independent Concentration – “Digital Media Studies: Performance and Practice” RECENT AWARDS AND HONORS New Media Writing Prize, Winner for PRY, Bournemouth University, 2015 Best New App Feature, Recipient for PRY, Apple, 2015 Book Feature, Recipient for PRY, Apple, 2015 Finalist “Excellence in Narrative”, Independent Games Festival (IGF), 2015 FWA Award Mobile of the Day, Recipient for PRY, 2015 Feature IndieCade East, PRY, 2015 Finalist Future of Storytelling Award, PRY, Fost 2014 Finalist IndieCade Award, Tumball, 2014 Feature WordPlay, Festival of Writerly Games, 2014 INVITED TALKS “An Evening with Tender Claws”. StoryCode. Los Angeles, CA Feb. 2105
“Creative Writing and Digital Media”. Fiction Program. San Diego State University. CA,Fall 2014 “Writing in Symbiosis with the Digital”. Writing Program. Cal Ats. Valencia, CA, Fall 2014 “The Future of Reading: New Technologies in Playing and Learning”. LA Times Festival of Books. University of Southern California. Los Angeles, CA, April 2014 “Pry: Language of Cinema”, Arts and Lectures Series, Cal State San Marcos, CA, April 2014 “Writing Expanded Cinema”, USC Dept. of English, Los Angeles, CA, October 2013 Gorman Curriculum Vita 1 “New Literature On and Between Screens”, UCSD Center for the Humanities, CA, March 2013 “iPad Literature”, SXSW Interactive, Invited by HUGE, Austin, TX, March 2012 EXHIBITIONS Museum of the Moving Image, New York, NY, April 18thJuly 26th 2015. PRY exhibited in “Sensory Stories: An Exhibition of New Narrative Experiences” MLA, ELO Bibliothèque Nationale de France
François Mitterand, Paris, France, Dec. 2013 “
Pry: a Novella” exhibited in
“The Digital Literature from Yesterday to Tomorrow” Sol Koffler Gallery, Providence, RI,
Oct. 2009 “Lingua Ignota: Language Visualizer” exhibited in Pixilerations [v.6] Upstairs Gallery, Providence, RI, August 2009 “Invisible Monuments” show in collaboration with Danny Cannizzaro Division of Human Works, Brooklyn, NY, March 2009 “Division of Human Curves” exhibited in “
ShapeShifting: Reinventing Heritage” Boston CyberArts Festival, Providence, RI, 2005, 2007 “Mugen Noh: A Virtual Opera” exhibited in “Works from the CAVE” PERFORMANCES/READINGS “Excerpts from PRY”, BabyCastles Gallery, New York, NY, April 2015 “Poetry Knows the Heroic Artist” with Vanessa Place, MOCA Geffen Contemporary, Oct 2014 “#NSA” with Vanessa Place, Francois Ghebaly Gallery, June 2014 RESIDENCIES Banff Centre, Digital Narrative Residency, Canada, 2015 Invited Artist
, Performance in Media Art M.F.A, Brooklyn College, NY, 2011 Invited Artist
, Suny Buffalo Dept. of Dance, Buffalo, NY, 2011 MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH, 2010 PUBLICATIONS PRY, Part 1 released October of 2014 “Selected Works”, Spring Gun Press, 2014 “Book of Kells”, New River Review, 2014 Gorman Curriculum Vita 2 “ELO: Affordances and Constraints”, Electronic Book Review, Spring 2014 “Lingua Ignota: An Invented Language”, The IllTempered Rubyist, Propolis Press, 2013 “Lingua Ignota: An Invented Language”, Dussie Issue 14,
www.dusie.org
, 2013 “The Future of the ELO”, panel proceedings,
Electronic Book Review,
(Accepted) “The Book of Kells and Mugen Noh”, Published by Brown University Dean’s Committee, 2006 “The Bizarre and Shocking”, from “Book of the 10th Muse”,
Women’s Writers Project
, 2003 CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS Games for Change Festival: Games and Media Summit, New York, NY, April 2015 panel, “Choose Your Own, New Hybrid Platforms”. Annual Conference of Associated Writing Programs (AWP)
, Seattle, WA, Feb. 2014 panel, “New Media Beyond the Book” with Borsuk, Henderson, Schneiderman. Chercher le Texte – International Digital Literature Events
, Paris, FR, Oct. 2013 talk, “
Reader/Author ‘Control of the Edit’ in the Novella App ‘Pry’”. paper, “Community Repository of Writers on Writing”. HASTAC “Storm of Progress”
, Toronto, CA, April 2013 panel, “Digital Publishing” with
Lisziewicz, Marshall, Wisniewski. demo, “Pry a reimaging of the eBook”. Hybrid cinema/novel iPad app. media reading/performance, “Completely Automated”. Electronic Literature Organization
, Morgantown, WV, June 2012 organized panel, “Future of the ELO”. EPoetry International Digital Language Arts Festival
, Buffalo, NY, March 2011 performance, “Body As” in collaboration with Dance Dept. talk, “Penumbra: Tablet Literature”. & NOW Festival of New Writing “Tomorrow Land Forever”
, San Diego, CA, Oct. 2011 media reading/performance, “Completely Automated”. talk, talk, “Penumbra: Tablet Literature”. Electronic Literature Organization “Archive and Innovate”
, Providence, RI, June 2010 screening, “Completely Automated”. 5:13 short video. screening, “Canticle”. 5:11 short documentation of project in CAVE. performance, “Lingua Ignota”. Synchronized voice, image, video. installation, “The Book of Kells”. Online Hypertext. Gallery at 232 Westminster . Gorman Curriculum Vita 3 Annual Conference of Associated Writing Programs (AWP)
, Denver, CO, April 2010 screening, “Canticle”. Shown at panel “The Soundtrack of the Poem”. & NOW A Conference of Innovative Writing and Art
, Buffalo, NY, Oct. 2009 talk,“Lingua Ignota: Language Visualizer”. media performance, “Telescope, Window, Tree: A Computer Generated Play”. Interrupt I Festival of Digital Literature
, Providence, RI, Oct. 2008 media performance, “Hymn”. Video art and projection mapping. ACADEMIC SERVICE Peer review for
Digital Humanities Quarterly,
2010 – Present Conference Committee, Electronic Literature Organization: “Archive and Innovate”, 2010 Organizing Committee, Brown University, Interrupt Festival, 2008 TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS Expanded Cinema Digitally Mediated Performance Digital Language Arts Embodied VR/AR Media Archaeology TEACHING EXPERIENCE Lecturer
, Rhode Island School of Design – English Dept., Providence, RI, 20102012 ENGLE46001 – “Digitally Mediated Performance” Developed curriculum on practice, theory, and history of performing with media. Individually mentored student projects across disciplines and technologies. ENGLE460 – “Writing Digital Media” Developed curriculum on practice, theory and history of Digital Language Arts. Led workshop exercises inspired by 20th Century avantgarde writing practices. Mentored final projects and organized public reading of student work. ENGLEL101 SEC10 – “Design in Words” Developed curriculum for university, freshman literature course. Led discussions and lectured on assigned fiction, poetry and theory. Met individually with students to discuss composition of academic papers. Integrated multimedia approaches to teaching literature through film. Gorman Curriculum Vita 4 ENGL – “Independent Study Project” Mentored individual students’ projects in film, performance and literature. Graduate Instructor of Record
, Brown University – Literary Arts, Providence, RI, 20092010 LITR0210D – “Electronic Writing II” Developed workshop course in the practice and theory of Digital Language Arts. Advised student projects and mentored students in Literary Arts degree progress. Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning, Brown University, Providence, RI, 20092010 Earned Certificate I: Sheridan Teaching Seminar Reflective Teaching. Participated in a yearlong workshop on curriculum design and student assessment. RESEARCH EXPERIENCE Research Assistant
, The Alliance for Networking Visual Culture, Los Angeles, CA, Present Member of development/research team for the digital publishing platform Scalar. Advised on and implemented disability accessible standards for Scalar books. Outreach Coordinator
, Center for Computation and Visualization, Providence, RI, 2006–2009 Gave demos of Brown’s CAVE Virtual Reality Laboratory to community groups. Documented “Text Editor” software for Brown University’s Cave Writing Course. CoCreator,
Virtual Classroom Project, Providence, RI, 2005 Received "Undergraduate Teaching and Research Award" to create a VR program to help dyslexic students differentiate phonemes through fullbody, immersive interaction with text. RELATED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Workshop Participant and Intern,
Troika Ranch LiveI Workshop, NY, NY, 2005 Explored integration of computer technology and theatrical performance. Learned software and hardware for developing video and sound installations. Supervised preshow video, lighting, and sound checks for Troika Ranch Performance. Literary Festival Curator,
Capitol Arts “Convergence Art Festival”, Providence, RI, 2003 Recruited, selected, contacted, and reviewed submissions from artists and writers. Publicized and organized a citywide arts festival. Freelance Motion Graphics/Video Work
, Scholastic, NY, NY, 2011 PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP Gorman Curriculum Vita 5 Electronic Literature Organization, HASTAC, MLA, AWP, American Studies Association Areas of Technical Interest A working knowledge across a broad range of software and scripting languages including: processing, html, css, final cut pro, photoshop, after effects, premiere, max/msp/jitter, A basic knowledge of: unity, objective c, php, javascript Gorman Curriculum Vita 6