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Writer. Experience Designer. ITP Grad Student. Publishing a digital notebook for writers at Open Loop Press. I seek and create new ways to experience literature and culture. See more of my work at www.CarlinMWragg.net.
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- Writer. Experience Designer. Literature Advocate.Museums and Institutions | Greater New York City Area, USSummaryWriter, Experience Designer, and Arts Administrator with expertise in content development, storytelling, and social media. Extensive experience supervising team projects and personnel.Experience
- Jan 2012 - PresentExperience Design Intern / Museum at Eldridge Street
- Sept 2007 - PresentEditor and Co-Founder / Open Loop Press
- Sept 2003 - PresentManaging Editor / Campbell Corner, Sarah Lawrence College
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2010 - 2012New York UniversityM.P.S in Interactive Technology, New Media, Interaction Design
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2000 - 2004Sarah Lawrence CollegeBachelor of Arts in Literature, Philosophy, Creative Writing
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- May 15, 12
I joined Hans-Christoph Steiner’s Programmatic Audio class, in part, to learn how to talk to programmers. Since coming to ITP I’ve felt flummoxed by code, …
- May 15, 12Found Letters is a transmedia verse novel that translates history into fiction, immersing readers in the objects, documents, and letters a genealogist uses to reconstruct …
- May 03, 12After sharing our first prototype with classmates at ITP and the Museum at Eldridge Street leadership team, we tweaked our design to incorporate some of …
- May 01, 12I met with Hans-Christoph Steiner last Tuesday to explore software solutions that might power the StoryWalks mobile app. Hans is teaching this semester’s Programmatic Audio …
- Apr 19, 12This semester, in collaboration with Anna Pinkas and Amy Stein Milford, Deputy Director of the Museum at Eldridge Street, I’ve been designing a site-specific audio …
- Apr 11, 12This week I experimented with projecting animated handwritten text onto a number of surfaces. I started with glass — a clear glass tumbler, a green …
- Apr 11, 12In Video Sculpture we were asked to use video projection to bring an antique to life. I choose to experiment with this letter box in …
- Mar 23, 12Some students spend spring break in exotic climes. I booked a flight to Kansas and spent four days driving through the state, researching Found Letters. …
- Mar 22, 12My wireframes for the proposed new Great Buildings homepage and content page are inspired by the Bing search landing page and Flickr’s photo pages. On …
- Mar 21, 12Can you translate the essence of a physical work of art into a digital medium, like video? Assigned to create a piece of video art …
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Who wants a letter, via snail mail, every month from a favorite author? The Rumpus says, “We do.” For $5/month, you can get one too. ~CMW
If enhanced digital books like ‘The Wasteland’ come with a $120,000 price tag, are editions like these possible for the emerging writer?
‘Chopsticks’ by Jessica Anthony and Rodrigo Correal is the latest of the bunch. Is this the future of literature, or the next CD-ROM? ~CMW
(via Boing Boing)
An anonymous sculptor has been leaving gorgeous carved-book sculptures in Scotland’s libraries, along with little notes of encouragement. Some are left out in the open; others are hidden away and may have sat a long time before being discovered.
In the history of writing technology, The Writing Ball (1865) wins first prize for Most Elegant Typing Gadget. ~CMW
Numabookface = indie bookstore inspiration. Eye-catching display design and hand-picked custom book bundles make this a pop-up shop to watch. ~CMW
Elizabeth Gilbert on nurturing creativity: “Ole to you nonetheless for having the sheer human stubbornness to keep showing up.”
Look for stories in your everyday life. How, for instance, did the middle-aged man with the operatic voice wind up working the counter at your local deli?
Prompt // Idea Catcher: An Inspiring Journal for Writers (Story Press, 1995)Think about a secret you’ve kept — about yourself. Give the mystery to a character unlike you
Prompt // Idea Catcher: An Inspiring Journal for Writers (Story Press, 1995)To speak more generally, the ultimate goal of technology, the telos of techne, is to replace a natural world that’s indifferent to our wishes — a world of hurricanes and hardships and breakable hearts, a world of resistance — with a world so responsive to our wishes as to be, effectively, a mere extension of the self.
ee cummings revealed ~ Experiments in the visualization of poetic meter by Jennifer Ho. ~CMW
A poetic innovation ~ Motionpoems : poetry, meet animation. Now fundraising on Kickstarter. Lend your support! ~CMW
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- "The bardic system is fundamentally conservative; it serves to transmit a fixed story from teller to..." http://t.co/56dkfXkE
- "The three-dimensional sound and images held out the possibility of a dramatic art form that can..." http://t.co/JHHmTTKQ
- Connecting Music and Gesture - Alan Gilbert, music director of the New York Philharmonic, demonstrates and... http://t.co/Uzi76yqG
- "But what is historical fiction?” people also ask and I reply, “It’s fiction based on history.” More, it..." http://t.co/hKWdxCRA
- Video: Touchcode, one step closer to an invisible QR code. This technology can be printed on paper and... http://t.co/uBV1YFOJ
- Video: 3D avatars talk back in this immersive real world video game from the interactive media department at... http://t.co/yKWmwLRT
- @spikespike Totally. Was thinking about her when I shared the link. Will track her down.
- Craftsman, storyteller James Patterson develops scene-by-scene book outlines, works with other writers to fill them in. http://t.co/0pqVKZH7
- Rage against the machine ~ To gain milliseconds & millions, financial traders lay fiber-optic cable across the Atlantic http://t.co/rKqBLs3w
- This Flexible E-Ink Display Will Be In Real Devices This Summer http://t.co/bWKneCPD via @zite
- @cmenscher Gorgeous find about craftsmanship in book production!
- @seoid Ah, two fab projects, even better! :) Skype Sunday is perfect. Booked.
- @seoid LOVE article on directorial debut, super exciting project! Want to Skype one day soon? Would love to catch up & hear all the news. xo
- Each letter is a fiction ~ The Rumpus letter book club writer reflects on tangible correspondence. http://t.co/xsdiuzcI
- @ITPArchive Another one for the front end inspiration vault: http://t.co/uRe6T1IV. Simple gallery of thumbnails of images from old books.
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Writing the Novel ~ Found Letters' Kansas Research Trip
