Reconstruction Vol. 15, No. 3
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Contributors
Richmond Adams [article]
Jamie Carr [article]
Jonny Farrow is an artist working across the disciplines of sculpture, installation, transmission arts, drawing, printmaking, and performance. His work investigates cultural, architectural, and imaginary spaces through the materiality of found and made objects, sound, light, image, and text. He creates spaces where sound, sound-related concepts, and objects converse in order to reframe established cultural narratives with the aim of sparking meaningful, culturally critical dialogue. He holds an MFA in Studio Art from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, an MA in Music from The City College of New York (CUNY), teaches and writes about art and culture, and has presented his work at various galleries, museums, cultural institutions and festivals: In NYC at Diapason, PPOW, Cabinet Magazine Gallery, Judson Church, Art in Odd Places, Issue Project Room. In Chicago: Zhou B, Gallery 400, Experimental Sound Studio. Elsewhere: The Dark Outside (Scotland), Mina Dresden (SF), School of the Museum of Fine Arts (Boston); Moderna Museet (Stockholm), Tashkeel, and Sharjah Art Foundation (United Arab Emirates). He currently lives and teaches in Abu Dhabi. You can hear him hosting his monthly radio show The Distract and Disable Program on wgxc.org. [article]
Raiford Guins is an Associate Professor of Culture and Technology at Stony Brook University. He is a Founding Curator of the William A. Higinbotham Game Studies Collection at Stony Brook University and Principal Editor with the Journal of Visual Culture. He has recently published Game Afterlife: A Cultural Study of Video Game After (MIT Press, 2014) and is currently researching his next book: Atari Modern: A Design History of Atari’s Coin-Op Cabinets, 1972 – 1979 (Bloomsbury Academic). His writings on game history appear in the following journals and magazines: The Atlantic, Cabinet, Design and Culture, Design Issues, Game Studies, Journal of Design History, Journal of Visual Culture, and Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture. Guins also edits the MIT Press’s “Game Histories” book series with Henry Lowood. Their collection, Debugging Game History: A Critical Lexicon, will be published in the series in 2016. [article]
Joshua King [article]
Carly A. Kocurek is Assistant Professor of Digital Humanities and Media Studies and Director of Digital Humanities at the Illinois Institute of Technology. She is the author of Coin-Operated Americans: Rebooting Boyhood at the Video Game Arcade (University of Minnesota Press, 2015), and co-editor of Bloomsbury's Influential Game Designers book series. [article]
Ken S. McAllister is a Professor of Rhetoric at the University of Arizona, where he serves as the College of Humanities' Associate Dean of Research and Program Innovation and as the Co-Director of the Learning Games Initiative. [article]
John Mazzoni [article]
Amanda Meyer received her BA from University of Texas-Austin and her Master's in Literature from Texas State University. She currently teaches college writing at Texas State University and Concordia University. She also teaches creative writing to children in the summer. She has had interviews published in Newfound Journal concerning Robert T. Tally Jr.'s book, Spatiality (The New Critical Idiom) and Tomas Q. Morin concerning the poetic space and his collection of poems, A Larger Country. One of her most recent achievements was receiving the award for Outstanding Graduate Student in English for 2012-2013. Contact her at alm5@txstate.edu. [article]
Edwige Motte is a geographer / phd student at Rennes 2 university (France). She studies coastal changes during the twolpast centuries from visual archives and especialy artistic documents (paitnings, engravings, postcards ... ). [article]
Cara Okopny, Ph.D. is a Scholar-in-Residence in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at American University in Washington, DC. She is interested in how gender, sexuality, race, and class, intersect with environmental issues in popular media. Her work on women and the environment contributes to the interdisciplinary field of feminist eco-criticism. [article]
Kalli Paakspuu [article]
Hervé Regnauld is a professor of physical geography at Rennes 2 university (France). He studies coastal morphodynamics and epistemology of "special sciences" http://perso.univ-rennes2.fr/herve.regnauld. [article]
Judd Ruggill is an Associate Professor of Communication at Arizona State University and Co-Director of the Learning Games Initiative. [article]
Anja Schwanhäußer [article]
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