Department of English at the University of Virginia

Books

• SpecLab: Digital Aesthetics and Speculative Computing, (University of Chicago Press, forthcoming 2008)
• Graphic Design History: A Critical Approach, with Emily McVarish, (Pearson/Prentice Hall, 2008)
• Sweet Dreams: Contemporary Art and Complicity (University of Chicago Press, 2005)
• Figuring the Word: Essays on Books, Writing, and Visual Poetics, Granary Books, 1998.
• The Alphabetic Labyrinth: The Letters in History and Imagination, Thames and Hudson, 1995.
• The Century of Artists' Books, Granary Books, 1995.
• Theorizing Modernism: Visual Art and the Critical Tradition, Columbia Univeristy Press, 1994 (paperback, 1996).
• The Visible Word: Experimental Typography and Modern Art, The University of Chicago Press, 1994 (paperback, 1996).

Scholarly/Critical Publications

• “To figure out what is happening,” interview by Tate Shaw (with JD), JAB 21, 2007, pp.3-13
•  “Making Space: Image-Events in an Extreme State,” Cultural Politics           (forthcoming, Summer/Fall 2007)
  
• “Text Models: Performative Metatexts, Metadata, and Markup,” EJES, (in
  press for 2007)                        
• “Digital/Visual/Poetical,” Text Technology (in press, summer 2007)            
• “Second Day.”  nOulipian Analects, Matias Viegener and Christine           Wertheim, eds.,Los Angeles: Les Figues Press (summer 2007)
• “From Page Space to Espace,” Blackwell’s Companion to Digital Literary Studies, (in press)            
• “Visual Knowledge Representation,” Jessica Feldman and Rob Stilling,          eds., Thinking of Reading (forthcoming)
• “Neon Sigh: Epistemological Refamiliarization,” Avant-Post, Louis Armand, ed. Prague: Litteraria Pragensia, 2006; pp 71-84.            
• “Intimate Authority,” catalogue essay, National Museum of Women in the
  Arts, for The Book As Art exhibition, Fall 2006           
• "Contrasts and Connections, Paintings by Susan Bee and Miriam Laufer,"
  exhibition catalogue essay,  AIR Gallery, NY Feb-March 2006      
• "Erotic Method" exhibition catalogue essay on Cecily Brown, Gagosian Gallery, April 2006              
• “Fallen Idols,” catalogue essay, Neon Boneyard, Judy Natal, Center for American Places, 2006            
• “Graphical Readings and the Visual Aesthetics of Textuality,” Text, #16, (dated 2005, actually appeared 2006), pp.267-276      
• "Procedures Performed and Executed" exhibition catalogue essay on the work of Bruce Nauman, Tate Modern, Liverpool, May 2006      
• "Humanities Games and the Market in Digital futures," Criticism, Vol.
  47:2 Wayne State University, June 2006  )
  
• "Exposing the Hidden Tradition," exhibition catalogue essay for e-motive: Visual Poetry in the Digital Age, University of Essex Gallery, Summer 2006
  
• "A moving target: defining digital humanities," What Is Digital Media Studies?
  Marcel O'Gorman, editor, (Summer 2006) MIT University Press
  
• "Digital Provocations and Applied Aesthetics: Projects in Speculative Computing,"Emerging Small Tech, David Reider and Byron Hawk, eds. University of Minnesota Press (Summer 2006)  
• "UnVisual and Conceptual" in Open Letter, Toronto, CA, December 2005
  Don't Pay Any Attention to Him, He's 90% Water: The Cartooning Career of
  Boris Drucker, "Biographical Essay", Joseph Lubin House, NYC, pp.9-32.
  2004
• “Interactive, Networked, and Algorithmic"At A Distance, Annmarie Chandler and Norie Neumark, eds., MIT Press, 2004;pp.34-59. (written 2002, published 2004)
  
• "Designing Ivanhoe," in Text Technology, special issue, Geoffrey Rockwell, ed., (Publication date, No. 2, 2003, finally appeared in 2004); pp.19-41.
  
• "Modernity and Complicity: a dialogue," with Jerome McGann, Textual Practice, Special issue edited by Tyrus Miller, "Poetry Matters: Essays in Honour of Marjorie Perloff;" Volume 18, Issue 2, Summer 2004; pp. 207-220.
  
• "The Crux of Conceptualism," Conceptual Art, Michael Corris, ed. (written
  1998, finally published) Cambridge University Press, 2004.
  
• "Speculative Computing," Companion to Digital Humanities, John Unsworth and Susan Schreibman, eds., Blackwells ((2004))
  
• "What is a Letter?" Education of a Typographer, Steve Heller, ed.,Allworth Press, NY; pp.78-90.
  
• "Typographic Intelligence," Typographically Speaking: The Work of Matthew
  Carter, re-issued by Princeton Architectural Press, 2004
  
• "Affectivity and Entropy, " Objects and Meaning, Anna Fariello and Paula Owen, eds., Scarecrow Press (Winter 2003, actual publication 2004)
  
• Excerpt from The Alphabetic Labyrinth, for Communication in History, edited by Paul Heyer and David Crowley, (Addison Wesley Longman) (2003)
  
• “Digital Hybridity and the Question of Aesthetic Opposition,” Adrift in the
  Techno-logical Matrix, David Erben, ed., Bucknell Review, 46.2
  (written 1998)
  
• "Iliazd and the Modern Art of the Book," Splendid Pages, Bareiss Collection
  exhibition, Julie  Melby, curator, Toledo Museum, Spring 2003 (written
  2001)           
• "Visual Studies," Afterimage, Volume 31.1, July/August 2003, pp. 4-5           
• "Nature's Art and Technological Imagination," Introduction to Joseph Scheer,
  Night Visions, Prestel, London, (written/published 2003) pp. 14-17           
• "Critical Intersections," syllabus, Teaching Graphic Design, Steven Heller, ed., Allworth Press, 2003, pp.247-257
• "The Critical 'Languages' of Graphic Design," Looking Closer #4, Steve Heller, ed., (NY: Allworth Press, 2003), pp.168-182.
• "From Mallarmé to Meta-Data," Link, (Baltimore, MD), Bill Sebring, ed.; pp.31- 54 (2002).
  
• “Intimations of Immateriality,” Re-Imagining Textuality, Neil Fraistat and
  Elizabeth Loizaux, eds., University of Wisconsin Press, pp.152-177;
  "Ruskin’s Horror of the Flesh: The Ideology  of the Virtual," for Hypertext
  Yearbook, #2, Raine Koskima, ed., Summer 2002
  
• "Experimental Typography as a Modern Art Practice," excerpt from The Visible Word, in Conceptual Art, Peter Osborne, ed., (London: Phaidon Press, 2002); p. 238;.           
• "Typographic Intelligence: The Work of Matthew Carter," The Art of Matthew
  Carter, exh. catalogue, Margaret Re., ed., UMBC, Albin O. Kuhn Library, pp.9-12.
  
• "Digital Media: The Generative Potential of Meta-technology" Cortona
  International Symposium Catalog (Univ. of Georgia, Spring 2002).
  
• "Pictographs," with Jerome McGann, Information Design, Vol. 10, No. 2
  pp. 95-106.             
• "The Futurist Work of Ilia Zdanevich," Back to Futurism, Nicholas Rzhevsky
  ed., Slavic and East European Arts, Vol. 10, Nos. 1 and 2, Winter           2002; pp.13-44 (2002).            
• Translations of existing work:
  "Il libro d'artista oggetto raro e/o auratico," L'oggetto libro 2001, (Milan:
  Edizioni Sylvestre Bonnard, 2002); pp.176-199.
  
  "The Future of Writing," M/E/A/N/I/N/G, 16 into Turkish for Turkish Literary Review (forthcoming), translated by Onder Otcu
• "Digital Ontologies," Leonardo, Vol,. 34, No.2, ppp.141-145.
  "Visual Performance of the Poetic Text,"  ProFemina, #24-24, Belgrade
  " Theatrical Spaces: The Artist’s Books of John Eric Broaddus," exhibition catalogue, Yale University Library, Arts of the Book Collection (2001).
• “Who’s Afraid of Visual Culture?” Art Journal, Winter 1999, Vol.58, #4, (2000 publication date), pp. 36-57.
• "Feminism, Theory, and Art Practice," MEANING anthology, Susan Bee and Mira Schor, eds., Duke University Press, pp. ix - xiii (published in 2000, written in 1999).
• "Plastic Phallic Fantastic," Sex Appeal, Steve Heller, ed., Allworth Press, NY, pp. 69-73 (Written and published in 2000).
• "Critical Perceptions of Emerging Text Forms," American Letters and Commentary, #12 (Written and published in 2000).
• "The Artist's Book as Idea and Form," Book of the Book, Jerome Rothenberg and Steve Clay, eds., Granary Books, N. pp. 376-388 (Re-publication of earlier article.)
• "Signs of Life, Spaces of Art." Graphic Design and Reading, edited by Gunnar Swanson, Allworth Press, NY anthology pp. 31-50 (Written in 1999, published 2000).
• "Review of Pete Spence's Vienna Railway," in Heat, #14, (Australia), pp. 212-215 (Written and published in 2000).
• Roundtable on hypermedia with Loss Glazier, Mark Amerika, and July Malloy: Riding the Meridian, Winter 2000 (http://www.heelstone.com/meridian) (Written and published in 2000).

Exhibition Curated

Pop Goes the Page: Selections from the Brenda Forman Collection, Alderman Library, UVa, Special Collections, May to September 2000 (Research curating, labels and text written in 2000).

Creative Publications

• Testament of Women, Druckwerk and Granary, 2006
• Damaged Spring, Druckwerk, 2003
• A Girl's Life collaboration with Susan Bee collaboration, Granary Books, 2002
• Night Crawlers on the Web, Spring 2000, Jabbooks (Written, designed, published 2000).
• Emerging Sentience, Fall 2000, Jabbooks, with Brad Freeman (Written and published 2000).
• Quantum, Druckwerk, Fall 2000 (Written, designed, published 2000).
• (Victoria and Albert Museum in London, Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris, and The Book Museum in the Hegue, added Nova Reperta, Jabbooks 1999, with Brad Freeman, to their collections).

Exhibitions

• "The Art of the Book: Johanna Drucker and Bruce Mau," SUNY Albany, BookEnds conference and celebration of the new University library, October 2000-January 2001.
• Rutgers Library, New Brunswick "Johanna Drucker: Artist's Books," November-December 2000.
• San Francisco Book Arts Center, Nova Reperta (with Brad Freeman), Summer 2000.
• "Women of the Book,: travelling exhibition curated by Judith Hoffberg:
  Southwest Missouri State University,
  University of Pennsylvania Library,
  Florida Atlantic University,
  Finegood Art Gallery, Bernard Milken Jewish Com. Center, West Hills, CA
  Greater Minneapolis Jewish Community Center
• Nova Reperta (with Brad Freeman) and other works, Frankfurt book fair, November 2000.
• "Poetry Plastigue" Marianne Boeshy Gallery. January-February 2001, New York City.
• Emerging Sentience (with Brad Freeman).

Honors

• 1994 Phillip and Ruth Hettleman Award for Junior Faculty Teaching, Columbia University, School of General Studies
• 1992-1993 Getty Foundation Fellowship for Research
• 1988-1989 Harvard Mellon Faculty Fellowship, Department of Fine Arts
• 1984-1985 Fulbright Fellowship for doctoral candidates, Paris, France, dissertation research on experimental typography.