For the last few years, Paul and I have been setting up a trick-or-treat game for the neighborhood kids. We’ve been referring to the game we made this year as “choose a hat.” We’ve moved since last year but it seems like these kids were as engaged (or not) as the kids in his old hood.
SHORT BIO
xtine burrough makes participatory projects for networked publics. Her recent work recovers feminist texts through mediation and reimagines virtual crowd workers as bodies with agency.
Using social platforms, databases, search engines, blogs, and applications in combination with popular sites like Facebook, YouTube, or Mechanical Turk, she creates web communities promoting interpretation and autonomy. burrough is passionate about using digital tools to translate common experiences into personal arenas for discovery. Emergent themes in her work include culture jamming, remix, appropriation, and translation.
Burrough has written, edited, and co-edited several books including The Routledge Companion to Remix Studies (2014), Foundations of Digital Art and Design (2013), and Net Works: Case Studies in Web Art and Design (2011). She is the editor of The Visual Communication Quarterly.
With Dr. Sabrina Starnaman, burrough is a recipient of a Humanities Texas Award (2016-2017) and funding from The Puffin Foundation West Ltd., for their exhibition The Laboring Self. She received a California Humanities Award (2015-16 with Dr. Dan Sutko); a Terminal Net Art Award, a UK Big Lottery commission developed by Cornerhouse for the Abandon Normal Devices and Looping the Loop Festivals; and she is a 13th Annual (2009) Webby Award Honoree in the Weird category. Her 2005 project, Delocator.net was positively reviewed in a wide range of media outlets including newspapers, radio, television, and film. burrough has participated in international festivals promoting digital art and culture including Abandon Normal Devices (Manchester, UK), Designs on E-Learning (Helsinki), Electrofringe (AU), Futuresonic (UK), iDMAa, ISEA (Hong Kong 2016, Albuquerque 2012, and Belfast 2009), Sonar (SP) and Prog:ME (BR).
Recent projects include The Women of El Toro, A Vigil For Some Bodies, @IKnowTheseWords, On the Web, O Browser, My Browser, and multiple iterations of the Mechanical Olympics. Her website is missconceptions.net.
xtine is an associate professor in the School of Arts, Technology, and Emerging Communication at The University of Texas at Dallas, where she co-directs SP&CE (Social Practice and Community Engagement) Media Lab with Dr. Banner and Dr. Knight; and co-organizes LabSynthE, a laboratory for the creative investigation of synthetic and electronic poetry with Dr. Dufour. She is an Advisory Board Member of the Feminist Research Collective.
Bibliography [Press]
- App Launch for The Women of El Toro
- Big Joe Goes Down (Julian Dibbell on Delocator)
- Book Review > A Manual for the Discrete and the Continuous (Kate Armstrong)
- Book Review > Net Works: Case Studies in Web Art and Design (Karie Hollerbach)
- Interview with Cal Humanities (WoELT)
- Jail Benches and Amazon.com at SanTana's Grand Central Art Center (Dave Barton on Mediations on Digital Labor)
- Let's Get Physical (Marisa Olson on Mechanical Olympics)
- Mechanical Games, online sports video for turkers (Chiara Ciociola)
- Star-bucker (Gustavo Arellano on Delocator)
- Take a break with CSUF educator's latest art project
- The Little Coffee Shop Around the Corner (Kim Severson on Delocator)
- The Women of El Toro as a Featured Project on the NEH Federal/State Partnership page
- The Women of El Toro in the OC Register
Books & Text
Projects
- @IKnowTheseWords Twitterbot Project
- A Penny For Your Thoughts
- Death Fugue
- Delocator
- Let's Go Crazy
- Library of Congress, Remixed
- Mechanical Games
- Mechanical Olympics
- Mediations on Digital Labor
- Mozart Effect Transplanted
- O Browser, My Browser
- On The Web
- Paradise Obscura
- The Laboring Self (Pilot)
- The Women of El Toro
- Vigil For Some Bodies
- Walk on Wire
YouTube Playlists