Christopher Funkhouser

I am a writer, musician, and multimedia artist who has authored of two scholarly monographs, Prehistoric Digital Poetry: An Archeology of Forms, 1959-1995 and New Directions in Digital Poetry. I have taught Communication and Media courses at NJIT since 1997, and was a Visiting Fulbright Scholar at Multimedia University, Malaysia, in 2006. As a publisher I worked closely with Amiri Baraka and Kamau Brathwaite, and many other writers and artists. I was commissioned by the Associated Press to prepare digital poems for the occasion of Barack Obama’s inauguration in 2009, and in 2016 I performed at the Whitney Museum’s Open Plan: Cecil Taylor exhibition. I am a Contributing Editor at PennSound, host of the POET RAY’D YO radio program at WGXC (Hudson, NY), and am a member of the improvisational musical ensemble Most Serene Congress.

Ph.D.; University of Albany; ; 1997

M.A.; University of Virginia-Main Campus; ; 1988

B.A.; University of Virginia-Main Campus; ; 1986

http://web.njit.edu/~funkhous

COM 324 - PODCAST PRACTICUM

COM 369 - DIGITAL POETRY

Digital (electronic) literature, Interactive Audio Production, Document and Web Design.

In general, my research at present explores Digital Poetry, Podcast Audio Production, Contemporary Literature, and Hypertext/Hypermedia Pedagogy.

Computer and network technologies have expanded the objects and forms of inquiry in the Humanities, writing, and the Arts. Scholars investigating these contemporary developments therefore must be defined through a multidisciplinary framework. My research engages not only with Digital Arts but also with Creative Writing and Literature. In order for a broader awareness of such innovative developments to be understood, significant historical and imaginative investigations are necessary. I have, therefore, taken on, as my primary task, the responsibility of becoming one of the researchers who lights a documentary path for others who explore and engage with these new literacies. Because technology continues to evolve and affect nearly every aspect of human activity, my research as a scholar, artist, and teacher investigates the disciplines of reading, writing, and digital media along a range of modalities.

Both of my books provide overviews of an artistic culture that situates writing in relation to digital technology and media. These books blend traditional and inventive approaches to analytical criticism, and deliver detailed, academic documentary studies on forms of electronic writing. As I study what occurs within my academic discipline, I am inspired to discover what possibilities digital media holds for writers, editors, and performers. Since 2015, my research focuses primarily on interactive digital audio, a practice I have been involved with since 1991. I create inventive poetic works for computer screens, auditorium stages, and also use hypermedia and the Web to convey many types of information to students. Research conducted within my primary areas of study is central to the courses I teach at NJIT.

BOM SHANKAR : chapeau Andy!
Shivastan Press, October (4th Quarter/Autumn) 2023

Recording Peter Lamborn Wilson
Brooklyn Rail, October (4th Quarter/Autumn) 2022

Remembering Peter Lamborn Wilson
No Quarter, September 2022

The Cricket: Black Music in Evolution, 1968–69
Rain Taxi, 2023

Review of The Correspondence of David Cope & Allen Ginsberg: 1976-1996
Paterson Literary Review, 2023

The Poem Electric: Technology and the American Lyric
Rain Taxi Review of Books, July (3rd Quarter/Summer) 2019

The Last Vispo Anthology: Visual Poetry 1998-2008
Rain Taxi Review of Books, March 2013

"Digital Art and Meaning: Reading Kinetic Poetry, Text Machines, Mapping Art, and Interactive Installations"
Rain Taxi Review of Books, January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2012

“Tan Lin’s Seven Controlled Vocabularies”
Edit Publications, February 2011

“Bionanomedia Expression”
Postmodern Culture , April (2nd Quarter/Spring) 2009

Poet Ray'd Yo
Wave Farm / WGXC, August 2023

The Whole World Smiles
Kelly Writers House, PennSound, and the Poetry Foundation, May 2023

Poet Ray'd Yo
Wave Farm, 2022

Poet Ray'd Yo
Wave Farm, 2021

Most Serene Congress
Letter [r] Press, December 2017

That Makes Me Feel Wonderful
Splice Today, July (3rd Quarter/Summer) 2023

"Illuminated Nanoscripts"
hemispheric institute E-Misferica, May 2009

Personal Insights
June 2023

Unnameable EP
Bandcamp, October (4th Quarter/Autumn) 2022

improvised is how the voice is used...
Electronic Literature Organization, June 2022

On David Rothenberg's "INVISIBILITY BEGINS WHEN SKY AND EARTH ARE INDISTINGUISHABLE"
ModPo, June 2022

Workers Sporing
Bandcamp, April (2nd Quarter/Spring) 2022

Funkhouser, Christopher T. (2022). Listening as learning: documenting preverbs, Burt Kimmelman (Ed.), Aporeia. (pp. 140-154). New York, NY: Aporeia

Funkhouser, Christopher T. (2021). being matter ignited...: an interview with Cecil Taylor, Adam Pendleton (Ed.), DABA; Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz Konig. (pp. 138-162). New York; Koln: DABA; Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz Konig

Funkhouser, Christopher T. (2019). “Notes on the Body in Relation to Technopoetry” , Edwin Torres (Ed.), Counterpath Press. (pp. 194-201). Denver, CO: Counterpath Press

Funkhouser, Christopher T. (2018). Pressing Record: On Ginsberg, Benjamin Boretz, et al. (Eds.), The Open Space Magazine. (pp. 315-329). Red Hook, NY: The Open Space Magazine

Funkhouser, Christopher T. (2012). “First generation poetry generators: foundations in form,”, Douglas Kahn and Hannah Higgins (Eds.), U California P. (pp. 34 pp). Berkeley, CA: U California P

Funkhouser, Christopher T. (2021). Applying Poetic Media in the Digital Humanities. Interférences littéraires /Literaire interferenties(25), 35-50.

Funkhouser, Christopher T. (2020). On Jim Rosenberg’s Word Space Multiplicities. Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics ,

Funkhouser, Christopher T. (2018). Being matter recorded: Cecil Taylor on/poetry. The Open Space Magazine(21), 10-14.

Funkhouser, Christopher T. (2018). Review of Baraka & Taylor at the Poetry Project (2000). The Open Space Magazine(21), 14-17.

Funkhouser, Christopher T. (2017). “IBM Poetry: Exploring Restriction in Computer Poems”. The Poetics of Computation, Special Issue of Humanities, 19.

"Midiazine Research Performance ELO 2018 / Eastern Bloc, Montreal, August 15"
Les Presses de l’Écureuil – ALN / NT2, 2020, November 2020

“Players only Love you when they’re Playin’: Community as Algorithm in Programmable Poetics”
Electronic Literature as a Model of Creativity and Innovation in Practice, November 2012

“On Jackson Mac Low, ‘Stanzas for Iris Lezak’”
Jacket2, May 2011

Funk's SoundBox: version archival
We Press, January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2020

Funkhouser, Christopher T. (2015). Whereis Mineral: Selected Adventures in MOO. San Francisco, CA: Gauss PDF

Funkhouser, Christopher T. (2014). pressAgain. Bergen : Free Dogma Press

Funkhouser, Christopher T. (2011). Electro Perdix. Northampton,MA: Least Weasel

Funkhouser, Christopher T. (2011). November 2010. Kingston, PA: Chapbookpublisher.com

"in audio practice: I-XII"
Jacket2, April (2nd Quarter/Spring) 2014

New Directions in Digital Poetry
Continuum P, January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2012