Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Modern Culture and Media
Brown University
155 George Street Box 1957
Providence, RI 02906
www.thefollowingphrases.com
braxton_soderman AT brown.edu

EDUCATION

Ph.D. Brown University | Modern Culture and Media | 2010
M.A. Brown University | Modern Culture and Media | 2007
M.F.A California Institute of the Arts | Critical Studies Writing Program | 2003
B.A. Vassar College | Philosophy | Summa Cum Laude | 1999

DISSERTATION

Playing With Media Histories: Video Games Through the Lens of Modernity and Modern Media

Director: Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Professor of Modern Culture and Media
Readers: Mary Ann Doane, George Hazard Crooker Professor of Modern Culture and Media
Philip Rosen, Professor of Modern Culture and Media

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Brown University | Teaching Fellow / Instructor
MC090 | Code, Software, and Serious Games | Spring 2008

Brown University | Teaching Assistant
MC120 | Imagined Networks | Fall 2007
MC15 | Text/Media/Culture: Readings in Theory | Spring 2007
MC10 | Screens and Projections: Modern Media Cultures | Fall 2006
MC15 | Text/Media/Culture: Readings in Theory | Spring 2006
MC10 | Introduction to Media | Fall 2005

California Institute of the Arts | Teaching Assistant
CS110 | Writing Arts: Making Sense of Place | Fall 2002
CS110 | Writing Arts: Making Sense of Place | Spring 2002
CS110 | Writing Arts: Making Sense of Place | Fall 2001
CS214 | Irreverent Research | Spring 2001

PUBLICATIONS

Co-Edited Book
Associate Editor, NTNTNT, California Institute of the Arts Press, 2003.
Collected Interviews from the net.net.net lecture series held at MOCA LA, 1999-2000

Peer-Reviewed Articles
“The Aesthetics of Generative Literature: Lessons from an Electronic Writing Workshop” w/ Daniel Howe, Hyperrhiz: New Media Cultures, Vol. 6, (October 2009).

“Intrinsic Motivation: Flow, Video Games, and Participatory Culture,” Transformative Works and Cultures, Vol. 2 (March 2009).

“The Auto Salvage: A Space of Second Chances,’” Space and Culture: International Journal of Social Space (February 2008).

“The Index and the Algorithm,” differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, Vol. 18 No. 1 (Spring 2007).

“At The Crossroads of the Trivial: A Critique of Ergodic Literature,” The Electronic Journal of Communication, Vol. 14 No. 1 & 2 (2004).

Electronic New Media Texts
“mémoire involuntaire no. 1,” Electronic Literature Collection Vol. 2 (Forthcoming, Spring 2010).

“A Dialogue Between Two Eyeballs,” Hyperrhiz: New Media Cultures, Vol. 4 (December 2007).

“Larvatus Prodeo,” Bathhouse: A Journal of Hybrid Art, Vol. 4 No. 2 (Spring 2006). Collaboration with Roxanne Carter.

Exhibition Essays
“Inappropriate Covers,” David Winton Bell Gallery Publication, Brown University, (April 2009).

“Page_Space: An Introduction,” Machine Poetics, Machine Gallery, Los Angeles, (May 2004) .

EXHIBITIONS and CURATORIAL PROJECTS

Exhibitions
“Massage Collage: A ditto, ditto device,” Pixilerations: stories +/- ornament, 2007. The Space at Alice, 70 Eddy Street, Providence, RI, Interactive Installation.

Curatorial Projects
Inappropriate Covers, David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence April-May, 2009, Co-Curator.

Inappropriate Covers, film screening, Magic Lantern Cinema, The Cable Car Cinema, Providence, RI, April 2009, Co-Curator.

page_space, Machine Gallery, Los Angeles March-April 2004, Co-Organizer.
* project included an exhibition, online collaboration between ten digital artists, and a three day symposium of events at The California Institute of the Arts

Alexandra Grant: Pin-up Show, Collaborations with Michael Joyce, CalArts Graduate Program in Writing, Valencia, CA, February 2004, Co-Curator.

SERVICE and COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT

Co-Curator, Inappropriate Covers Exhibition, David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University.

Co-Organizer, Interrupt Festival, Brown University, October 2008.

Peer Reviewer, Transformative Works and Cultures, 2008-Present.

Co-Organizer, Page_Space Exhibition and Symposium, California Institute of the Arts, March-April, 2004.

HONORS and AWARDS

Andrew W. Mellon/ACLS

Dissertation Completion Fellowship | 2009-2010

Brown University

Modern Cultural and Media | Dissertation Fellowship | 2008-2009
Modern Culture and Media | Teaching Fellowship | Spring 2008
Creative Arts Council Grant for Interrupt Conference | 2007-2008

California Institute of the Arts

Viola Heggi Swisher Scholarship for Outstanding Critical Writing | 2001-2002
CalArts Competitive Writing Arts Fellowship | 2001-2002

Vassar College

Phi Beta Kappa |1999
Philip Nochlin Prize for Outstanding Senior Thesis | 1999
Senior Philosophy Intern | Vassar Philosophy Dept | 1998-1999
Selected for the Southwest Earth Studies Program | Summer 1998

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

“Killing Time in Diner Dash: Representation, Gender, and Casual Games”
Breaking New Ground: Innovation in Games, Play, Practice and Theory, Digital Games Research Association Conference (DiGRA) | September 2009

“The Aesthetics and Practice of Computational Literature” (w/ Daniel Howe)
Visionary Landscapes | The Electronic Literature Organization Conference | May 2008

“The Aesthetics of Generative Literature: Lessons from an Electronic Writing Workshop” (w/ Daniel Howe)
Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLSA) | November 2007

“The Programming of Language: Code, Execution, Motivation”
Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLSA) | November 2007

“Rethinking Representation: The Concept of Rendering in Digital Media”
The Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) | March 2007

“Memory and Real Time”
Panel Discussion | E-Fest 2006 | Brown University | March 2006

“The Index and The Algorithm”
The Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) | March 2006

“The Poetics of the Page_Space”
Narr@tive: Digital Storytelling: A UC Digital Cultures Graduate Conference | April 2004

“Machine Poetics: The Page_Space Experiment”
(Dis)junctions: Romancing Heteroglossia | University of California Riverside | April 2004

“At The Crossroads of the Trivial: A Critique of Ergodic Literature”
Criticism and Social Action: Rhetorical Dimensions of Electronic Texts | University of Washington | April 2003

“Self, Public, Storage”
(Dis)junctions: Morphing the Written Word | University of California, Riverside | April 2003

INVITED READINGS AND LECTURES

“The Art of Video Games and the Games of Art”
Invited Lecture | Brown University | April 2008

Untitled (“Nightmare of the Inner Ear”) w/ Roxanne Carter
Rereading the Screen: After Words | Reading Digital Literature Conference | Brown University | October 2007

“A Dialogue Between Two Eyeballs…”
Reading | E-Fest 2007 | Brown University | February 2007

“Toward a Circulation of the Digital Page”
Reading | E-Fest 2006 | Brown University | March 2006

“page_space”
Invited Curatorial Lecture | Machine Gallery | Los Angeles | April 2004

“On Boundaries”
Invited MFA Thesis Reading | Calarts School of Critical Studies | October 2002

“Staring at the Technological: The Thing With Heidegger”
Invited Thesis Lecture | Vassar College | Department of Philosophy | 1999