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 Winter 2017 production of a new adaptation of Ibsen's and Grieg's Peer Gynt utilizing a variety of stage technologies and performing objects; 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; an AR exhibit for the Roebling collection at the Rensselaer archives.
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 Winter 2017 production of a new adaptation of Ibsen's and Grieg's Peer Gynt utilizing a variety of stage technologies and performing objects; 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; an AR exhibit for the Roebling collection at the Rensselaer archives.
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