1/ I am delighted to share that my interactive media artwork and critical reflection, Lines of Flight, is now available with Media+Environment, part of a special issue on Wind as Model, Media, and Experience

https://mediaenviron.org/article/125744-lines-of-flight

Hello, updated #introduction!

I'm a #poet, #professor, literary #translator, new media #artist, and #SFF writer.

I work in #experimental #poetics, speculative fiction, digital-visual collage, and hybrid works that blend the textual with the digital (including experimental film, #videogames, glitched imagery, and AI generated artwork).

I'm also an avid D&D player and Dungeon Master.

Realizing that I did the #introduction informally, so let's try again:

I'm a nonbinary #transmedia storyteller, musician, writer, web designer and PhD researcher.

My passion project is the #ARG - #elit - #InteractiveFiction crossover work Under the Surface, which utilizes what appears to be a musician's webpage to tell a story through a variety of media. It includes opportunities to dig deeper and exhume additional layers of content both by snooping around and by solving puzzles and explores #mentalhealth themes in a sensitive manner. You'll find it at https://www.axel-lunden.com

I also curate https://www.queer-immersives.info, which catalogues #unfiction, alternate reality games, #VisualNovels and electronic literature by queer creators.

My PhD research is on mental health and tech policy and I'm an American based in Oslo, Norway. I may occasionally post in a Scandinavian language. You are forewarned.

I really love to meet other transmedia creators as well as writers, #gamedev and #NarrativeDesign folk here!

Not so long ago Wren Rainer Dalton of Univerity of Wisconsin at Madison's Serious Play collective wrote this excellent blog on my project Under the Surface and uses it to explain how limiting the use of the term #liminality has become in populat culture by expanding on it in their analysis here:
https://tinyurl.com/92h59xh7

Also, if you're wondering how a project can be an #ARG (alternate reality game), #elit, #unfiction and #interactivefiction all at the same time, this gives a fairly good explanation of why all 4 genres are a good fit.

Anyway, I love Wren's synopsis, give it a look if you're at all curious about what I'm up to!

#Introduction: I'm a #Poet, #Professor, #Translator, and #NewMedia #Artist. I work in #Experimental #Poetics, #DigitalLiterature (#eLit), #Erasure, #Collage, and #Hybrid works that blend the textual with the digital (including #PoetryFilm, #VideoGames, #GlitchArt, and #AIArt).

My most recent book, SCARLET, is a collection of digital-visual #poems created through #erasure of the novel The Scarlet Plague, by Jack London, collaged with glitched imagery from everyday life during the pandemic.

I've now learned I should do an #introduction so:

I'm Alex Saum-Pascual. I am an associate professor at UC Berkeley, where I teach #digitalliterature (or #elit) and #contemporary #Spanish #literature and #Iberianstudies. I am mostly in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and the Berkeley Center for New Media #bcnm.

I am also a digital #poet, and my work engages #environmental and #feminist questions (surprise, so does my recent scholarship!).

And.... I am also from Spain, so I write in both English, Spanish and, most often, Spanglish.