Technology and the Human Body – Final Student Projects
As a teacher, there’s nothing more satisfying than learning from your students and sitting back as they show you how well they can critically evaluate the material and bring new insights to it. Here below I have placed (with permissions) a few short excerpts from my students’ final projects, completed for the Rhetoric and Digital Media … Read more
Kinect and the Posture of Context-Aware Computing
I walked into Dr. Rieder’s office yesterday, and he said “do this,” making wild hand motions. I thought, “what is he up to now?” (I can always expect something out of the ordinary from Rieder as his academic work is more like running–a process of seeing what things and ideas can do when you run … Read more
Antidiets and Food as Art
I’m currently reading Antidiets of the Avant-Garde: from Futurist cooking to Eat Art by Cecilia Novero. The book sets out to explore the “performative quality in food and eating as they manifest themselves in avant-garde manifestos, magazines, declarations, instructions, and so forth, as well as, surprisingly, in actual cookbooks” (ix). The discussion offers a renewed awareness … Read more
Decoding the Language of Brain Decoding at the Graduate Symposium
Some recognition… Here’s an article that explains my research and provides a link to my poster presentation: http://www.ncsu.edu/grad/stories/gruber.html
