Biography

Temple University - Film

Media Artist / Theorist / Professor
Fine Art
Roderick
Coover
Greater Philadelphia Area
Roderick Coover is the creator or co-creator of numerous, award-winning works of digital, interactive and emergent cinema and digital arts such as Hearts and Minds: The Interrogations Project, Toxi•City: A Climate Change Narrative and The Theory of Time. He is also the maker of documentary films and interactive, documentary research projects such as The Unknown Territories Project, From Verite to Virtual: Conversations On The Frontiers Of Anthropology And Documentary Film, The Language of Wine: An Anthropology of Work Wine And The Senses and Cultures In Webs: Working In Hypermedia With The Documentary Image. His works are designed for the screen, interactive media, database cinema, photographic installation, online multimedia publication, gaming platforms and other Web media, and he has been a pioneering creator of some of the earliest forms of interactive cinema and digital, ethnographic arts. His works -- both of fact and fiction -- blend arts and research, and blur conventional, disciplinary boundaries. His is also the author of numerous critical and scholarly works including co-editor of Switching Codes: Thinking Through Digital Technology In The Humanities And Arts (University of Chicago Press). His work is internationally exhibited and reviewed, and he has received Fulbright, Mellon, Whiting and LEF awards, among others. He is Professor of Film and Media Arts, founding Director of the PhD-MFA Program in Documentary Arts And Visual Research and founding co-Director of the MA Program in mediaXarts: Cinema for New Technologies and Environments at Temple University, Philadelphia.