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RODERICK COOVER


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Sample Publications
 Recent/Current Shows/Lectures

• UPCOMING!: Rats and Cats and Tsunami
• UPCOMING!: Estuary at CHF Museum, Opens 6/2013
• UPCOMING!: Three Rails Live, Rowan Museum, opens 3/25/2013
• LATEST INTERACTIVE: Voyage Into The Unknown and Canyonlands (interactive) - Unknown Territories Series
• LATEST FILM:Canyonlands (The Movie)
• INTERACTIVE: Undaunted (museum)
• VIDEO: The Last Volcano (2010)
• VIDEO: Currency
• VIDEO: Something That Happened Only Once
• DVD: The Theory of Time Here (VideoDataBank).
• DVD: Verite to Virtual: Conversations on the Future of Visual Anthropology and Documentary Film, (D.E.R).
• DVD: The Language of Wine: An anthropology of work, wine, and the senses,2005/2007.
• CD-ROM: Cultures In Webs, Eastgate.

• Projects by Roderick Coover

• NEW BOOK: Switching Codes: Thinking through digital technology in the humanities and arts (Chicago, 2011) Sample Review: Visual Studies
Interviews and essays: Advances in Visual Methodology (Pink, Sage)• Sage Handbook to Visual Research • , Reconstruction Journal • econnected, EBR •"On Vérité...", Visual Studies •"Taking A Scroll", Hyperrhiz •"Artefacts..." Media-N. •"Le panorama digital..." Ethnographiques • "Interactive media..." in The Cinema of Robert Gardner, Berg • "Filmmaker to Filmmaker," American Anthropologist •"Touchy Subjects" and "Politics and Pomeloes" Cineaste • "Czech Dream in a Capitalist Republic" Film International • "History in Dust." Film Quarterly • "Using Digital Tools..."Visual Studies.

Teaching>>

 

• Lectures and Screenings: MIT8, HASTAC-Toronto, Screening Scholarship - UPenn, Scholars Symposium-UPenn, ELMCIP-Edinburgh;IVSA-Brooklyn;&Now-Paris; EL2012; 3 Rails Live/ Roderick Coover, Scott Rettberg and Nick Montfort at Brown U., RI and Kelly Writers House, PA. Instants Vidéo, Marseille and New Delhi; E-Poetry, Buffalo; Sustainability, Moscow, ID; Hidden Cinema, Tuscon; WLA Prescott; DFF-San Francisco; FILE Brazil; CologneOFF; Antimatter Film Festival; 17 Days; /Seconds; IVSA-Buenos Aires; Göttingen Ethnographic Film Festival; Belgrade Ethnographic Film Fest; Split Film Fest; Documenta Madrid; Finger Lakes Environmental Film Fest; Phila. Int'l Film Fest. • Installations and Exhibitions: Room8-Bergen(Norway);Crane Arts Center;EthnographicTerminalia New Orleans and Philadelphia; ASLE-Prescott; ELO-Providence and Vancouver; IVSA-Bologna; Roger Williams Galler; DAC, Ivine; Subito Online; Parallel Paradises, Deluge Contemp. Art Gallery; Syneasthesia, Painted Bride Gallery; Krannert Museum; The UM Art Gallery; GERALD'S PARTY, Nexus Gallery Philadelphia..


Degrees
Ph.D. University of Chicago
M.A. Brown University
B.A. Cornell University

Roderick Coover makes films, interactive cinema, installations and webworks, and he publishes in fields of the arts, humanities and social sciences.  Some of his latest projects include the interactive series Unknown Territories about exploration in the American West (www.unknownterritories.org) and the edited book Switching Codes: Thinking Through Digital Technology In The Humanities And Arts (University of Chicago Press). A pioneer in interactive documentary media and their poetics, his works are distributed through Video Data Bank, Documentary Educational Resources, Eastgate Systems and elsewhere. His collaborations with writers such as Scott Rettberg, Nick Montfort and Deb Olin Unferth have led to exhibitions in Europe, Asia, South America and USA. His integration of art and research has led to commissioned installations in museums such as the Museum of the American Philosophical Society at Independence Hall and the Chemical Heritage Foundation Museum. His awards include Fulbright, Mellon, LEF, Whiting, and CAN fellowships. Roderick Coover is Associate Professor in the Department of Film and Media Arts at Temple University and the founding director of Temple University's Graduate Certificate Program in Documentary Arts and Ethnographic Practice.

Professional Affiliations: American Anthropological Assoc., Electronic Literature Organization, College Arts Assoc., International Visual Sociology Assoc., Society for Cinema Studies, University Film & Video Assoc.

 

 

voyage
(Voyage into the Unknown)

 

Department of Film and Media Arts, Temple University, 2020 N 13th St, Philadelphia, PA 19122.       Email:rcoover@temple.edu

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