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December 28th, 2007

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Collider

December 13th, 2007

Collider – November 2007

Move the animals around to create loops. Sometimes you create beautiful noise while other times, just noise.

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Noisemaker

December 13th, 2007

Noisemaker – November 2007

Uses a a webcam to play beats based on difference in movement. Try to wave your hand in front of the screen. This one needs a webcam.

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Scratch Test

December 13th, 2007

Scratch Test – November 2007

Short and sweet: turn your mouse sideways and scratch. This one needs a mouse scroll wheel. Flash does not officially support scrollwheels for Macs, but most work. With the Mighty Mouse, you may need to change it to “vertical scrolling only” in your mouse properties.

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Sound Room

December 13th, 2007

Sound Room – November 2007

Move the fish around or the submarine to mix and match music. You can also control the fish with the arrow keys. Best of all is the auto-pilot feature, which moves all of the elements for you, to create a trippy soundscape. Headphones are highly recommended to get the full effect of moving around a space.

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Videotic

December 13th, 2007

Videotic – November 2007

Uses a a webcam to mix audio tracks based on activity and motion. This one needs a webcam and some setup.

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Information

December 12th, 2007

Peter Organisciak

Education

December 12th, 2007

PhD in Library and Information Studies

August 2010-present | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA


MA in Humanities Computing, with Specialization in Library and Information Studies

September 2008-August 2010 | University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada

  • Thesis: Why Bother? Examining the Motivations of Users in Large-Scale Crowd-Powered Online Initiatives


Honours BA in Communication Studies and Multimedia

September 2004-June 2008 | McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada

Work Experience

December 12th, 2007

Research Assistant

September 2008-present | Office of Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Alberta | Edmonton, AB

Supervised by Stan Ruecker and Geoffrey Rockwell. Current projects:

Freelancer

March 2008 – August 2008 | Hamilton, ON

Various Projects in programming, design, and academia. Including:

  • Spectator Map Generator – Hamilton Spectator – Tool for creating custom maps for online articles.
  • SmartTexts – Dr. Geoffrey Rockwell – Project visualizing a tool for archival of web projects.
  • “The Body Snatchers“:Trench Raid at Roclincourt – Dr. Kathy Garay – Animation of WWI trench raid. Funded by the Peace and War in the 20th Century project.

Instructor – “Crowdsourcing”

January 2009 – July 2009 | Metroland West Group | Hamilton, ON

  • Private sector instructor and course designer. 1-hour course, “Crowdsourcing”, taught every week to editorial, marketing, and advertising employees at newspaper publisher.

Instructor – “Web Development”

December 2007 – June 2008 | Metroland West Group | Hamilton, ON

  • Private sector instructor. 2-hour course “Web Development” taught to newspaper employees from creative and news departments.

Teaching Assistant

September 2007—December 2007 | Department of Communication Studies and Multimedia – McMaster University | Hamilton, ON

  • Course topic is Introduction to Digital Media in the Humanities.
  • Areas covered revolve around introductory web design, particularily XHTML, CSS, usability and online media.

Assistant Photographer

Fall 2007 – Present  | Chappell Studios | Toronto, ON

  • Photographer at University of Alberta and Grant McEwan convocations, October 2008 – Present
  • Photography of McMaster University convocations, November 2007 – June 2008

Instructor – “Mashups”

November 2007-December 2007 | Metroland West Group | Hamilton, ON

  • 2-hour course “Mashups” taught to newspaper employees from creative and news departments.
  • Course designed by me in August 2007.
  • Topics covered included history of content on the internet, practical uses of mashups, and hands on introduction to creating mashups.

Website Designer

June 2007—present | Mixed Media | Hamilton, ON

  • Website redesign for the James Street North Art Crawl.
  • An example of the future site can be found at http://www.porganized.com/JameSt.
  • Coded in CSS and PHP, uses WordPress as a content management system.

Graphic Designer

July 2004—July 2006 | Hayden Industries | Hamilton, ON

Graphic Designer

July 2004—September 2004 | Crawford and Associates | Hamilton, ON

  • Created icons for computer software interfaces.

Academic Experience

December 12th, 2007

Conference Presentations

Rockwell, Geoffrey, Stan Ruecker, Peter Organisciak, Megan Meredith-Lobay, Kamal Ranaweera, Stfan Sinclair. “A Day in the Life of Digital Humanities.” Digital Humanities 2010. King’s College London, UK. July 7-10, 2010.

Organisciak, Peter, Kathleen Reed, and Alicia Hibbert. “Shortcuts and Dead Ends: Control Issues With Online User-Generated Content.”Information Science: Synergy through Diversity. Canadian Association for Information Science.Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. June 2-4 2010.

Rockwell, Geoffrey, Stan Ruecker, Peter Organisciak, Megan Meredith-Lobay, Kamal Ranaweera andJulianne Nyhan. “What do we say about ourselves? An analysis of the Day of DH 2009 data.” Society for Digital Humanities.Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. June 2-4 2010.

Rockwell, Geoffrey, Stan Ruecker, Peter Organisciak, Megan Meredith-Lobay, Kamal Ranaweera andJulianne Nyhan. “What do we say about ourselves? An analysis of the Day of DH 2009 data.”Society for Digital Humanities.Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. June 2-4 2010.

Organisciak, Peter, Geoffrey Rockwell, Stfan Sinclair, and Stan Ruecker. “Text Analysis for me Too: An embeddable text analysis widget.”Society for Digital Humanities.Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. June 2-4 2010.

Organisciak, Peter. “Collecting Crowds: A Survey-based Introduction to Crowdsourcing.” HuCon 2010: Current Graduate Research in Humanities Computing. University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. February 26, 2010.

Ruecker, Stan, Geoffrey Rockwell, Susan Brown, Stfan Sinclair and Peter Organisciak. “Mashing Texts: Supporting collections level text analysis”. Digital Humanities 09. University of Maryland, USA. June 22-25, 2009.

Rockwell, Geoffrey, Stan Ruecker, Peter Organisciak, Stfan Sinclair. “Ubiquitous Text Analysis”. Digital Humanities 09. University of Maryland, USA. June 22-25, 2009.

Varnam, Christine, Peter Organisciak, Kathleen Reed, Alicia Hibbert, and Diana Keto. “Invasion of the And-Ors: Applying Active Learning Principles in the Development of a Flash-based Boolean Search Tutorial and Game.” Canadian Association for Information Science / l’association canadienne des sciences de l’information (Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences). Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. May 26-29, 2009.

Rockwell, Geoffrey, Stan Ruecker, and Peter Organisciak. “A Day in the Life of the Digital Humanities.” Society for Digital Humanities / Socitpour l’tude des mdias interactif 2009 (Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences). Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. May 22-25, 2009.

Rockwell, Geoffrey, Stan Ruecker, Peter Organisciak, Susan Brown, and Stfan Sinclair. “Mashing Texts: Exploring New Possibilities in Rapid Research Document Management.” Society for Digital Humanities / Socitpour l’tude des mdias interactif 2009 (Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences). Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. May 22-25, 2009.

Organisciak, Peter, Kathleen Reed, Alicia Hibbert, Christine Varnam, and Diana Keto. “Invasion of the And-Ors: The Development of a Flash-based Boolean Search Tutorial and Game.” Beyond Analogue: Current Graduate Research in Humanities Computing. University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. Feb 13, 2009.

Conference Panels

Ruecker, Stan, Geoffrey Rockwell, Peter Organisciak, Jean-Guy Meunier, Michael Eberle-Sinatra, Alan Galey, Aimee Morrison and Ray Siemens. “Graduate Education in the Digital Humanities.” Society for Digital Humanities / Socitpour l’tude des mdias interactif 2009 (Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences). Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. May 22-25, 2009.

Poster Sessions

Stfan Sinclair, Dave Beacon, Susan Brown, Stephen Downie, Carlos Fiorentino, Patrick Juola, Peter Organisciak, Geoffrey Rockwell, Susan Schreibman, Kirsten Uszkalo. “TADA Research Evaluation Exchange: Winning 2008 Submissions”. Digital Humanities 09. University of Maryland, USA. June 22-25, 2009.

Varnam, Christine, Kathleen Reed, Peter Organisciak, Alicia Hibbert, and Diana Keto. “Invasion of the And-Ors: Applying Active Learning Principles in the Development of a Flash-based Boolean Search Tutorial Game.” Faculty of Education Poster Fair: A Celebration of Graduate Student Research in Progress. University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. Mar 18, 2009.

Talks

Svenson, Stephen, Peter Organisciak and Cory Ruf. “Life and Death in New Orleans : Disaster Tours Imagined.” X Marks the Spot: Cryptographies of the City. Culture of Cities Centre, Toronto, Canada. April 9, 2008.

Academic Contests

Organisciak, Peter. “Bookmarklet for Immediate Text Analysis.” 1st Place in Best Idea for Improving the Interface of the TAPoR Portal. 2008 T-REX (TADA Research Evaluation eXchange). McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario. 2008.

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