Lucia Wright CV

Lucia Wright

Address:	188 2nd Ave, #9
	New York, NY 10003
Telephone:	212-254-3551
Fax:	212-254-6175
Email:	lucia@lrw.net
Homepage:	http://lrw.net/~lucia

Education

Ph.D. Performance Studies, New York University, 1994
M.A., Gallatin Division, New York University, 1985
B.A. Sarah Lawrence College, 1978

Technology

Platforms: Mac, DOS, Windows, Unix
Languages: HTML, CGI, Perl, Shell

Website Design: http://lrw.net/author.html

Island Academy; http://islandacademy.org
Brandt Wood-Power Design: http://lrw.net/brandtwood
Hemispheric Institute: http://hemi.ps.tsoa.nyu.edu
Streams On Line: http://sol.tenpennyplayers.org
Studio in a School: http://www.studioinaschool.org
Impacts of Technology: http://lrw.net/impacts

Technical Consultant and Web Design
http://hemi.ps.tsoa.nyu.edu
The Hemispheric Institute, a consortium of artists, scholars, and institutions in the Americas dedicated to exploring the relationship between performance and politics. Directed by Diana Taylor, Chair, Dept of Performance Studies, NYU. As technical consultants, we design and implement the computer communications for the Institute. This involves a distance learning collaboration via an interactive web site mirrored by participating institutions in Latin America and NYU.

HTML Instructor, private tutoring, class instruction, staff training
Studio in a School
http://studioinaschool.org
Trained staff to maintain the website for an art program for the New York City school system. Fall 1998.

Frederick Douglass Literacy Center in Brooklyn
http://www.readingcenter.org
Taught highschool students with literacy deficiences to build websites. Spring 1998.

Technical Consultant and Guest Artist in the Technologies
http://www.tenpennyplayers
http://sol.tenpennyplayers.org
http://islandacademy.org
The Waterways Project/Ten Penny Players, a Community Based Organization that serves highschools in New York City. 1998-present. I designed and maintain the website that hosts Streams OnLine, an online literacy tool created by Randy Wright. I also designed the website for Island Academy, a highschool for incerated youth that Waterways serves.

Webmaster
Hemispheric Institute, 1998-present.
http://hemi.ps.tsoa.nyu.edu
NYU Graduate School of Arts and Science, 1994-1997.
http://www.nyu.edu/gsas
GIGS: Grants in Graduate Studies
http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/fininfo/gigs.html
I built this gopher database in 1994 and converted it in 1997 to a web interface with a search tool.

Network Administration
http://lrw.net
My husband Randy Wright and myself are Internet consultants that run a small web hosting business for which I perform webmaster and system administration duties, run mailing lists, support and train clients. 1997-present.

HelpDesk and Sysadmin for internal LAN, Multiplan Inc., New York, Summer 1994.

Computer Consultant at 3rd Ave North Computer Lab, Academic Computer Facility of New York University, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. 1993-1994.

Research & Teaching

Adjunct Faculty in Media Ecology
NYU School of Education, Dept of Culture and Communication: Impacts of Technology: Culture and Communication on the Internet, spring 1998
URL: http://lrw.net/impacts

Research Fellow
Writing, Play and Performance in Computer-Mediated Communication, a study funded by a grant from the Israel Science Foundation. 1994-1996. I was co-investigator with principle Prf. Brenda Danet, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Dept of Communications and Journalism and Dept of Sociology.
URL: http://atar.mscc.huji.ac.il/~msdanet/overview.htm

Adjunct Faculty
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Dept of Communications and Journalism: Culture and Communication on the Internet, fall 1996

Adjunct Faculty
Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Dept of Education: Introduction to the Internet as a Learning Environment and Tool for Learning: Skills and Issues. As a class, we created a website for the Department of Education, 1995-97.
URL: http://www.bgu.ac.il/educate

Postdoctoral Fellow
Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Dept of Behavioral Sciences, Beersheva, Israel, 1994-1995.

Publications & Presentations

1995. "Ecafes and Epubs: An examination of interactive chat programs on the Internet." Guest class presentation at Hebrew University, Jerusalem, May 1, 1995.

1995. "Playing in the Key of IRC: carving out private space in a public place.Guest class presentation at the Lavinsky Teacher's College, Tel Aviv, May 15, 1995.

1998. "Hmmm...wheres all that smoke coming from? Writing, Play and Performance on Internet Relay Chat" (second author, co-authored with Brenda Danet and Yehudit Rosenbaum-Tamari). In Network and Netplay: Virtual Groups on the Internet, edited by Sheizaf Rafaeli, Fay Sudweeks, and Margaret McLaughlin, AAAI/MIT Press.

1997. "Hmmm...wheres all that smoke coming from? Writing, Play and Performance on Internet Relay Chat" (second author, co-authored with Brenda Danet and Yehudit Rosenbaum-Tamari). In Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, (www.ascusc.org) Volume 2, Number 4: March, 1997, Network and Netplay, edited by Sheizaf Rafaeli, Fay Sudweeks, and Margaret McLaughlin, (http://www.usc.edu/dept/annenberg/vol2/issue4/danet.html).

1995. "Virtual Virtuosos: Play and Performance on the Computer Keyboard" (first author, co-authored with Brenda Danet and Yehudit Rosenbaum-Tamari). EJC: Electronic Journal of Communications 5(4): Special issue on Networked Virtual Realities (MOOs, MUDs, MUSEs, IRC, etc) and Communication. Available by email for members only: Comserve@cios.llc.rpi.edu. Message: Send Rueden V5N495. Viewable online at: http://lrw.net/~lucia/pubs/ejc.txt

1994. "Get GIGS: 'Grants in Graduate Studies' Goes Online." Academic Computing and Networking at NYU Vol.4, No.5.

1994, 1996. "Jewish Resources in Computer Networking". Published in Shofar (Spring 1994), Jewish Folklore and Ethnology Review (Spring 1995), and Global Jewish Networking Handbook (1994) edited by Dov Winer for the Dept of Information of The World Zionist Organization. Updated, online version is viewable at http://lrw.net/~lucia/jewish96.html

1993. "Beginner's Guide to Networking on the VAX/VMS". Available from Help-Net by sending the following command to Listserv@templevm.bitnet: get vms-mail guide. Available via anonymous ftp from ftp://ftp.temple.edu/pub/info/help-net/vms-mail.guide. Also viewable at http://lrw.net/~lucia/pubs/vmsmail-guide.txt

1992. "Beginner's Guide to Networking on the VM\CMS". Available from Help-Net by sending the following command to Listserv@templevm.bitnet: get cms guide help-net. Available via anonymous ftp from ftp://ftp.temple.edu/pub/info/help-net/cms.guide. Also viewable at http://lrw.net/~lucia/pubs/cms-guide.txt

Honors and Grants

Graduate Assistantship, Dept Performance Studies, NYU, 1985-1989
Memorial Foundation, dissertation award
InterUniversity Fellowship Program, research grant to study in Jerusalem for two years
Lucius Littauer Foundation, grant to complete the dissertation
Israel Science Foundation, grant to research computer mediated communications, 1994-1996

Professional Affiliations

ISOC-NY: Internet Society, New York Chapter, http://www.isoc-ny.org
LXNY: New York's Free Computing Organization, http://www.lxny.org

References available upon request.
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