Rebecca Rouse
Rebecca Rouse is an Assistant Professor in the Department of the Arts at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, NY). Rouse is a core faculty member in the Games and Simulation Arts and Sciences (GSAS) program, and a member of the Emergent Reality Lab (ERL).
Rouse holds a PhD in Digital Media from the Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, GA), an MA in Communication & Culture from the joint program at York University and Ryerson University (Toronto, Canada), and a BA in Theatre Studies and German Studies from Brown University (Providence, RI).
With over a decade of experience working with Augmented Reality (AR) and other interactive media, Rouse’s research focuses on theoretical, critical, and design production work with storytelling for new technologies. Rouse designs and develops projects across museums, cultural heritage sites, interactive installations, and theatrical performance, all with the thread of investigating and inventing new modes of storytelling. This design work dovetails with Rouse’s research in design methods, media theory, and media archeology. Rouse teaches courses in Mobile AR Design, Mixed Reality Performance Design, Playwrighting, Games Studies, and the History of Technology at World’s Fairs and Expositions.
Current projects include: A musical adaptation of John Cheever's short story The Swimmer for VR; a book-length project expanding Rouse's Media of Attraction concept and media historical research in connection with design practice for emerging media; and an AR application incorporated in the Digital Blackfriars research project, to reconstruct the Blackfriars district in London during the time Shakespeare, Jonson, and others wrote and produced plays there.
Rouse holds a PhD in Digital Media from the Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, GA), an MA in Communication & Culture from the joint program at York University and Ryerson University (Toronto, Canada), and a BA in Theatre Studies and German Studies from Brown University (Providence, RI).
With over a decade of experience working with Augmented Reality (AR) and other interactive media, Rouse’s research focuses on theoretical, critical, and design production work with storytelling for new technologies. Rouse designs and develops projects across museums, cultural heritage sites, interactive installations, and theatrical performance, all with the thread of investigating and inventing new modes of storytelling. This design work dovetails with Rouse’s research in design methods, media theory, and media archeology. Rouse teaches courses in Mobile AR Design, Mixed Reality Performance Design, Playwrighting, Games Studies, and the History of Technology at World’s Fairs and Expositions.
Current projects include: A musical adaptation of John Cheever's short story The Swimmer for VR; a book-length project expanding Rouse's Media of Attraction concept and media historical research in connection with design practice for emerging media; and an AR application incorporated in the Digital Blackfriars research project, to reconstruct the Blackfriars district in London during the time Shakespeare, Jonson, and others wrote and produced plays there.
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