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THE ALTERING SHORES CYCLE: IT WILL HAPPEN HERE, THE FLOODS, WATER ON THE PIER, THE WATER HERE, LOCATIVE SHORES and THE COURSING

A cycle of immersive, combinatory, generative and locative experiences addressing rising waters.

Interweaving sound, language and image, IT WILL HAPPEN HERE and THE FLOODS are central works in a cycle of projects about floods. These include large-scale projected and immersive experiences, locative experiences and live concerts. These works reframe questions of sea-level rise, migration and extinction, in which familiar places -- and the memories and dreams that attend them -- are transformed by rising waters; the work gives rise to acts of recognition, utterance and transformation. The works use experimental new methods in generative and combinatory film. Algorithms combine the images to suggest unfolding events before breaking apart; like the tides the future is always in flux. With generative text by Nick Montfort and sound design by Adam Vidiksis. Learn More..

HEARTS AND MINDS: THE INTERROGATIONS PROJECT

An immersive experience for CAVEs, domes, and VR

An interactive, immersive, and cinematic gaming environment draws users into the haunting memories of ordinary American soldiers who became torturers in the course of serving their country. It foregrounds veterans' testimonies of US military enhanced interrogation practices and human rights abuses during the Iraq War, often by young and ill-trained soldiers who never entered the military to become torturers and find themselves struggling to reconcile the activities they were asked to do. Learn more and view samples. Created by Roderick Coover, Scott Rettberg, Daria Tsoupikova, and Arthur Nishimoto, Hearts And Minds was featured at the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize Forum, The Olso Human Rights Film Festival, and ISEA Hong Kong 360 Cinema among numerous arts venues and festivals and is designed both for arts installations and cinematic screenings. Learn More

THE KEY TO TIME and MEET ME AT THE STATION

An immersive experience for domes, CAVEs installations and projection

THE KEY TO TIME and MEET ME AT THE STATION are experimental narratives provoking questions about time, space and narrative. THE KEY TO TIME offers a surreal play upon the melodramatic genre of the "space opera"; a young scientist who is trying to make a time-travel machine in the 1920s is propelled two hundred years forward into a bleak future environment. His only chance is to travel through dreams. But dreams can also be nightmares... MEET ME AT THE STATION is a short about the anxiety of time.

Created by Roderick Coover and Krzysztof Wolek with an award from the Adam Mickiewicz Institute as part of their series +100, it features international cast including Joanna Freszel, Emily Albrink, Chad Sloan, Katherine Calcamuggio, Jesse Donner, and others. Learn more...

PENELOPE

Penelope is a combinatory sonnet generator film based on the Odyssey, addressing themes of longing, mass extinction, and migration. Using a similar combinatory structure to that of Oulipo poet Raymond Queneau's Cent mille milliards de poèmes, the computer-code-driven combinatory film can produce millions of variations of a sonnet. Like Penelope weaving and unweaving her tapestry while waiting for Odysseus, the video poem forever weaves and unweaves itself. By Roderick Coover, Scott Rettberg, Alejandro Albornoz. Learn more and view combinatory experience...

TOXICITY: A CLIMATE CHANGE NARRATIVE

Fictional oral histories from the future are set against nonfictional accounts of actual deaths that occurred during Hurricane Sandy in a code-driven, combinatory film about sea-level change and flooding. Using computer code to draw narrative fragments together in changing configurations every time it is shown, the film offers moments of resolution, contact and visions of the future, before the narratives are broken apart and a fresh cycle begins. Installed at the Venice Biennale and other venues. By Roderick Coover and Scott Rettberg. Learn More and view combinatory experience...

THREE RAILS LIVE

Running continuously, the algorithmic system driving this work never generates the same narrative in the same order twice, but nevertheless produces a coherent holistic story of a man's late search for meaning among the detritus of his life and environment. With each chapter, the system generates a title, two narrative fragments and a disturbing moral drawn from fragmented proverbs. Exhibited at the Bibliotheque National de France, Bergen International Film Festival, and numerous other international venues. By Roderick Coover, Scott Rettberg and Nick Montfort. Learn more and view combinatory experience...

THE THEORY OF TIME HERE
A video for installation and screening by Roderick Coover and Deb Olin Unferth

Described in Art Papers as "a tour de force composed with the tightness of a baroque fugue," this work of constraints and patterns confronts two inescapable and oppressive authorities—-technology and time, as experienced at a traffic light. Human desire and agency push against these forces through anxiety, desire and disruption. Distributed by VideoDataBank. Learn more...

CURRENCY: FOUR VIDEO POEMS and FATHOMS
Constraint-based video-literary experiences by Roderick Coover and Nick Montfort

Building upon legacies of the Oulipo group, constraint systems maximize collaborative creativity. Currency includes four one-minute video loops designed for small viewing devices, each created following a different set of commands, while Fathoms is an animated series of constraint-based collages and poetic couplets designed for video installation.

SOMETHING THAT HAPPENED ONLY ONCE
A panoramic video for installation.

Filmed in Coyocan Plaza, Mexico City, this animated, revolving panorama blends the actions of actors and non-actors on a busy Saturday afternoon. Constructed as a möbius strip, time bends upon itself to create impossible narratives of desire and longing. Deb Olin Unferth's lyrics are adapted to music by the Dutch singer Jodi Gilbert and saxophonist, Michael Moore. Installed at the Krannert Museum, SIGGRAPH and elsewhere.

THE CATASTROPHE TRILOGY
Video installation and projection by Roderick Coover and Scott Rettberg

Drawing from histories of deadly volcanic ash, great floods, and the plague, this trilogy tells stories of present day longing, anxiety, and climate change: a woman offers an account of a deadly volcano to a doubting friend, an telephone date between an American and a Norwegian veers toward histories of the black death, a Scot and a Norwegian share a cigarette break on an oil rig in the North Sea at a wrong moment. Learn more...

ESTUARY

Estuary is one of a series of creative and interactive nonfiction maps following visual research, scientific studies and archival research on industrial legacies, natural environments, and anticipated flooding along industrialized and post-industrial waterways. Following the form of the Exploring Expedition Logs of the 19th Century to reflect on the current environmental consequences of the Industrial Revolution. Designed for large scale installation and published as an artist book, Estuary is accompanied by GPS-based map experiences for locative media.

CANYONLANDS

Unknown Territories in an interactive series about the exploration, exploitation and transformation of the American West. The cycle investigates legacies of the 19th Century explorer-geographer John Wesley Powell and 20th Century writer Edward Abbey to discover the landscapes they imagined and contemporary forces transforming land today. The cycle includes an interactive cinematic environment with original videos, archival videos maps, photos, writings and other items, and there is also a 50 minute documentary film about Ed Abbey and the Great American Desert. .

VOYAGE INTO THE UNKNOWN

Users join John Wesley Powell on the 1869 exploring expedition of the uncharted waters of the Colorado River. The interactive work asks how landscapes are imagined, named, and represented with special attention given to the logs of Powell's boatman who contest Powell's accounts and the illuminating photographs of E. O. Beaman, John Hillers and James Fennemore on which drawn images of the voyage were based. Published in the Electronic Literature Collection, Vol. 2.

THE DIGITAL IMAGINARY

Literature And Cinema Of The Database

"The Digital Imaginary is an invaluable and elucidative analysis of the current 'state of this art' by authors and artists who are thinking and working at its leading edge. Its penetrating case studies and conversations map best current practices and beguiling future possibilities."
-- Jeffrey Shaw
"The Digital Imaginary figures vital, and some of the best, aspects of an emergent world... by creating just the kind of “discursive community” that its collection of interviews and essays – recursively, self-reflexively – celebrates."
-- John Cayley

Over the past half century, computing has profoundly altered the ways stories are imagined and told. Immersive, narrative, and database technologies transform creative practices and hybrid spaces revealing and concealing the most fundamental acts of human invention: making stories. The Digital Imaginary illuminates these changes by bringing leading North American and European writers, artists and scholars, like Sharon Daniel, Stuart Moulthrop, Nick Montfort, Kate Pullinger and Geof Bowker, to engage in discussion about how new forms and structures change the creative process. Available from Bloomsbury Press in hard cover, electronic publication and limited open access. Learn More...

Bloomsbury Academic, ISBN: 9781501347566

SWITCHING CODES

Thinking Through Digital Technology In The Humanities And Art

"At a moment when culture’s digital makeover seems to have induced epistemological vertigo in many, Switching Codes offers a timely and well-targeted intervention..."--William Uricchio
"The book covers enough ground via specific examples to demonstrate the complex challenges that the digital humanities current offers to traditional ways of perceiving, thinking and doing" -- Choice

Switching Codes brings together leading American and European scholars, scientists, and artists—including Charles Bernstein, Ian Foster, Bruno Latour, and Richard Powers—to consider how the precipitous growth of digital information and its associated technologies are transforming the ways we think and act. Employing a wide range of forms, including essay, dialogue, short fiction, and game design, this book aims to model and foster discussion between IT specialists, who typically have scant training in the humanities or traditional arts, and scholars and artists, who often understand little about the technologies that are so radically transforming their fields. Read a review in Visual Studies Journal. Published by the University of Chicago Press. Read sample. Learn More...

University of Chicago Press. ISBN: 0226038319

CULTURES IN WEBS

Hypermedia And The Documentary Image

"Cultures in Webs is the first ethnographic CD ROM project of its kind... It is an innovative and beautifully
produced project that exemplifies some possibilities and potentials of hypermedia for anthropological representation" -- Sarah Pink
"Rod Coover’s Cultures in Webs points us to the future - a future that is most exciting and promising." --Jay Ruby.
"Brilliant and compelling.... Roderick Coover raises hypermedia ethnography to the level of art..." --Michael Joyce

Cultures In Webs is an interactive CD-ROM which features hypermedia approaches to cross-cultural filmmaking, photography and new media. The documentary studies interweave text, photos, video clips and audio to offer a discussion about cross-cultural film, photography and the practices of visual anthropology.

Read Lucien Taylor's introduction to Cultures In Webs here and reviews in Rhizome, Anthropological Theory and American Anthropologist. View samples including The Harvest and Concealed Narratives. Learn More.

Eastgate Systems. ISBN: 1-884511-44-9

VÉRITÉ TO VIRTUAL: Conversations On The Frontier Of Documentary Arts And Visual Anthropology

Vérité To Virtual asks takes an interdisciplinary approach to asking how technologies are changing visual research. The films features conversations with Lucien Taylor, Noel Carroll, Michel Brault, Rebecca Baron and others. Distributed by Documentary Educational Resources and available on Kanopy. An article plus the film transcript is in Visual Studies Journal. Learn more..

THE LANGUAGE OF WINE: An Anthropology Of Work, Wine And The Senses

Blending ethnography and eco-poetics, this documentary follows terms of winemaking in Bourgogne as provocative metaphors to understanding local views on fundamental life issues and cultural conditions. Read Anna Grimshaw's review of The Language of Wine and Cultures in Webs in American Anthropologist. Now available for free on Vimeo. In French and English with English subtitles.View...

INSIDE - OUTSIDE
An interactive installation for Undaunted: Five America Explorers, 1760 – 2007, APS Museum.

Commissioned by the American Philosophical Society Museum at Independence Hall, Philadelphia, this interactive installation takes visitors on an adventure into histories hidden in the urban landscape in a three-block area of Philadelphia around Independence Hall. Videos were added bi-monthly to the scrolling panorama in its 18month tour at this prominent public space.

CONCEALED NARRATIVES

A pioneering workin early interactive documentary, Concealed Narratives was filmed in Ghana 1992-1993, in the year following the formation of its Fourth Republic under then president-elect J.J. Rawlings. The work concerns ways political narratives are concealed within imagery and performance. First shown using Macromind Director (1994), it was then updated using Storyspace and published in HTML in the CD-Rom, Cultures In Webs.

Roderick Coover is the creator or co-creator of works of interactive, experimental and emergent cinema, virtual reality and digital arts such as It Will Happen Here, The Key To Time, Hearts and Minds: The Interrogations Project, and Toxi•City: A Climate Change Narrative. He is also the maker of documentary films and interactive, documentary research projects such as The Unknown Territories Project, From Verite to Virtual: Conversations On The Frontiers Of Anthropology And Documentary Film and Cultures In Webs: Working In Hypermedia With The Documentary Image. His works are designed for the screen, interactive media, database cinema, photographic installation, online multimedia publication, CAVE environments and head-mounted displays, and he has been a pioneering creator of some of the earliest forms of interactive cinema and digital, ethnographic arts.

He exhibits internationally in art venues such as the Venice Biennale, film festivals like the Philadelphia International FF, hybrid festivals like Documenta Madrid, public spaces like the Bibliotheque Nationale de France, and public events like the Nobel Peace Prize Forum as well as frequent exhibitions with digital arts groups like ISEA, SIGGGRAPH and ELO. He is the recipient of a 2022-2024 Fulbright Fellowship to France and has received prior awards from Mellon, Whiting, Spire LEF, USIS Fulbright (Africa), among others. His work combines practice and theory. His publications of research, conversations and artist papers include, among others, the books The Digital Imaginary: Literature And Cinema Of The Database (Bloomsbury Press) and, with Thomas Bartscherer, Switching Codes: Thinking Through Digital Technology In The Humanities And Arts (University of Chicago Press). He has held residencies with the University of Bergen (Norway), the University of Montpellier (France), and the University of Lille (France), as well as with at the Dora Maar House, Ragdale, United Sardine Factory, and the Sea(S) Foundation.

On the academic side, he is Professor of Film and Media Arts at Temple University in Philadelphia and recipient of a Lindback Award For Excellence In Teaching. He is the Founding Director of the PhD-MFA Program in Documentary Arts and Visual Research (DAVR), Founding Director of the Graduate Certificate Program in Documentary Arts and Ethnographic Practice (DAEP) and Founding Co-Director the MA in MediaXarts: Cinema for new technologies and environments. He was also Director of the MFA Program in Film and Media Arts, 2014-2018. Other initiatives include the creation of the Temple-UPenn graduate exchange award, a VR initiative to bring green room facilities and VR production to Temple and the oversight of 16mm optical printing and hand-painted film studios. He is on the advisory boards of the Center For Humanities at Temple (CHAT) and served on the advisory committee to the Temple Library's Duckworth Scholars Studio. He mentors PhD, MFA, MA, and BFA students in Film and Media Arts as well as BA students in the university honors program.

His studios are in Pennsylvania, USA, and Drôme, France.

Select exhibitions and screenings

Gallery Of Art, Rome 2027; Ouarzazate International Film Festival, Morocco, 2026; CDN/XDN Festival and Bergen International Film Festival 2026; Future of Storytelling, USC Los Angeles 2026; ELO 2026; ICIDS2025, Malta; ELO2025 festival, Toronto; More than meets AI, Lake Forest 2025; Bergen International Film Festival/More than meets AI, Bergen 2024; Nature & Culture Poetry Film Festival, Copenhagen; Impec Gallery, Aix-en-Provence; ICIDS2024 Festival Bogata; Splice 2023 Festival; ELO2024 Festival Coimbra; Embassy of France at Washington DC, SEAMUS (New York); ISEA International Barcelona; ELO2022 Festival Como; The Philadelphia Fringe Arts Festival (Cherry Street Pier); The Philadelphia Fringe Arts Festival (Crane Arts); New Bern Experimental Film Fest (Best Film Award); ELO2021 Festival (Aarhus-Bergen-Vancouver); Varese International Film Festival; Jena Full-Dome Film Festival; Deep Play Exhibition Philadelphia; Speed Cinema and Louisville New Music Festival; Louisville Planetarium, Louisville; Tetramatyka Festival, Lviv, Ukraine; Filmteractive VR Festival, Lodz, Poland; The Glowing Globe 2019, Science-Fiction-Art Festival, Rijeka Croatia; Hyperobjects, Worth Ryder Art Gallery, University of California, Berkeley; G! Festival. Faroe Islands; ISCMA Art Machines: International Symposium on Computational Media, Hong Kong; ICIDS 2018 International Conference for Interactive Digital Storytelling Art Show, Dublin; Oslo Poetry Film Festival; EcoDH, Bergen; ELO Media Arts Festival Performance Night, Montreal; i-docs Festival planetarium special event screening; "Uchronia", The Wrong Bienalle, Montreal; Nobel Peace Prize Forum, Minneapolis; Venice Biennale Hyper-Pavillion, Seattle Transmedia & Independent Film Festival; ANIMATOR Festival, Poznań, Poland; Electronic Literature Organization Juried Media Arts Exhibition, Porto, Portugal; Inishbofin Cultural Conversations Festival; Other Codes / Cóid Eile: Digital Literature in Context Conference Exhibition, National University of Ireland; Whitehead Lecture Series Screening, Goldsmiths University; Anthropocene, Juried Exhibition, Fuse Factory & Pearl Conard Art Gallery, Ohio; SIGGRAPH Asia 2016 VR Showcase, Macao. 6 December. Hearts and Minds; Piksel Festival of Digital Art, Norway; Alt/Future Film Festival, Taipai; Shapeshifting Texts, Universität Bremen, Germany; RIRRA 21, Université Paul-Valéry, Montpellier; Nottingham International Microfilm Festival; EcoHack 2016; Bergen International Film Festival - Expanded Cinema Selection; SEA(S) International Art Exhibition, Ithaca, Greece; Medialab Katowice; DH2016 Digital Humanities Screening, Krakow, Poland; Bunkier Suzuki Gallery Krakow; Electronic Literature Organization Media Arts Festival; Hearts and Minds; Electronic Poetry Festival. Moscow, Russia; ISEA International, Hong Kong; DeBartolo Performing Arts Center, Notre Dame University; Olso Poetry Film Festival; Museo Arts Santa Monica, Barcelona; SIGGRAPH 2015, Automat Gallery, Philadelphia; ISEA, Vancouver; Placing the Golden Spike: Landscapes of the Anthropocene, INOVA Gallery, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee; Human Rights/Human Wrongs International Film Festival, Oslo. Hearts and Minds; HASTAC Screening, East Lansing; IEEE Media Arts Exhibition, Paris; Flow and Fracture, Université Libre de Bruxelles; Eletronic Visualization Lab CAVE2™, University of Illinois, Chicago; Electronic Literature Organization Featured Screening, Milwaukee; Hybrid, Paris8 Event; Disperse the Light Electronic Writing and Media Arts Festival, Milwaukee; Fast Forward, Design-Philadelphia Festival, Philadelphia; Bibliothèque Nationale de France François-Mitterand, Paris; Sensing Change, Science History Museum ; Media In Transition 8 Exhibition, MIT, Cambridge; Bergen Public Library; Rowan University Museum of Art; Society for Visual Anthropology Juried Film and New Media Festival; Rom 8 Gallery, Bergen Academy of Art and Design; Inside the Moment, Crane Arts Center; Gazela Tall Ship, Philadelphia; Electrifying Literature Affordances and Constraints, Electronic Literature Organization Juried Media Arts Show; Interrupt 2, Granoff Center for the Creative Arts, Brown University; Instants Vidéo Numériques et poétiques, Marseille, Martigues, Port-de-Bouc, Vitrolles, Nice, Bédarieux, Paris, Milan, Mexico City and Camargey (Cuba); 3rd Sadho Poetry Festival, New Delhi, 2011; Waterpieces Contemporary Arts & Video Festival; CologneOFF, Riga; CologneOFF, Beirut; Short Shorts; i-Docs, Bristol, UK. Unknown Territories; Hidden Cinema of the Southwest, Tucson; Central School Project Art Center, Bisbee; Cinematek USF, Bergen, Norway; Ethnographic Terminalia; NewMediaFest Cologne; Disposable Films Festival, San Francisco; Roger Williams University Gallery, RI; Digital Arts Conference Literary Arts Gallery, Irvine; Subito Gallery, Boulder; Kipp Gallery, Indianna Univ. of Pennsylvania; Landmark Arts Center, Bergen, Norway; 1.5 Million, Stella Elkins Tyler Gallery; FILE - Electronic Language International Festival in Sao Paulo; 7th International Film Festival Yerevan; COLOGNE OFF; Pocket Films Festival, Paris; Synesthesia, Painted Bride Gallery, Philadelphia; Act Artifact, Temple Art Gallery Event Space; Flint Institute of Arts, Flint; Deluge Contemporary Art Gallery, Victoria; /Seconds Film Festival, UK; Centre De Cultura Contemporanea, Barcelona; The Art Gallery, University of Maryland New Media Exhibition; Krannert Museum, Champaign; Nexus Gallery, Philadelphia; Interrupt Fringe Festival, Providence; Visionary Landscapes, North Park Gallery, Vancouver; International Ethnographic Film Festival, Göttingen; XVI International Festival of Ethnological Film, Ethnographic Museum of Belgrade; ISVA Keynote Screening, Buenos Aires; 17 Days, University of Western Michigan Gallery And Travelling Exhibition; Antimatter Underground Film Festival, Victoria; Undaunted: Five American Explorers 1760-2007, Museum of the American Philosophical Society; ACM SIGGRAPH, San Diego; Split Film and Media Arts Festival, Split Croatia; Esther Klein Gallery, Philadelphia; Philadelphia Film Festival, Philadelphia; Documenta Madrid Film Festival, Madrid; Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival, Ithaca; Institute of Ethnology / Museum of Ethnology, Neuchatel; Mediating Practices Film Festival, Philadelphia; International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, Florence; Sonoma Wine Country Film Festival, Sonoma.

Companies and Collaborations

Collaboration is a central part of my work. I work with writers, scientists, researchers and fellow artists.

•Unknown Territories offers production services for commissions, collaborations and creations led by Roderick Coover.
•Chouette Collective LLC is a cultural industries & activities collaboratory of Roderick Coover and Catherine Peyrot Des Gachons.
•CRChange is the cinematic arts production collaboratory of Roderick Coover and Scott Rettberg.
•The Grand Hotels Of Joseph Cornell (As Visited By Roderick Coover, Caitlin Fisher and Scott Rettberg) is a creation of Roderick Coover, Caitlin Fisher and Scott Rettberg in collaboration with Unknown Territories, CRChange and the Center For Digital Narrative at the University of Bergen.
•The Key To Time is a collaboration with Roderick Coover and Krzysztof Wolek produced by Chouette Collective, Institute Adam Mickiewizc, and Centrum Technologii Audiowizualnych with additional support from TR Theater. Louisville University and Temple University and the production services of Unknown Territories.
•The Altering Shores is a collaboration of Roderick Coover, Nick Montfort and Adam Vidiksis made through Unknown Territories and the Chouette Collective. It is also made with support from the University of Pennsylvania Program in Environmental Humanities, The University of Pennsylvania and Temple University.
•Penelope, Toxi•City, Hearts and Minds, Circe, and Catastrophe Trilogy are produced by Roderick Coover, Scott Rettberg and CRChange.
•Currency and Fathoms are collaborations with writer Nick Montfort through Unknown Territories and the Chouette Collective.
•Three Rails Live is a three-way collaboration between Roderick Coover, Scott Rettberg and Nick Montfort
•Canyonlands and the Unknown Territories Series was created in collaboration with literary scholar, poet and river guide, Lance Newman through Unknown Territories.
•Something That Happened Only Once and The Theory of Time Here were created in collaboration with author Deb Olin Unferth through Unknown Territories.
•Something That... also included collaboration with sound artist Jodi Gilbert and saxophonist Michael Moore created through Unknown Territories.
•Outside/Inside, commissioned by the Museum of the Philosophical Society at Independence Hall National Park was made in collaboration with actor Brett Keyser and created through Unknown Territories.
•Switching Codes is an edited book made collaboration with Thomas Bartscherer.

UNKNOWN TERRITORIES

THE ALTERING SHORES CYCLE: IT WILL HAPPEN HERE, THE FLOODS, WATER ON THE PIER, THE WATER HERE, LOCATIVE SHORES and THE COURSING

HEARTS AND MINDS: THE INTERROGATIONS PROJECT

THE KEY TO TIME and MEET ME AT THE STATION

PENELOPE

TOXICITY: A CLIMATE CHANGE NARRATIVE

THREE RAILS LIVE

THE THEORY OF TIME HEREA video for installation and screening by Roderick Coover and Deb Olin Unferth

CURRENCY: FOUR VIDEO POEMS and FATHOMSConstraint-based video-literary experiences by Roderick Coover and Nick Montfort

SOMETHING THAT HAPPENED ONLY ONCEA panoramic video for installation.

THE CATASTROPHE TRILOGYVideo installation and projection by Roderick Coover and Scott Rettberg

THE GRAND HOTEL SAND FOUNTAIN

THE CROSSING

ESTUARY

CANYONLANDS

VOYAGE INTO THE UNKNOWN

PUBLICATIONS, DOCUMENTARIES, ETHNOGRAPHY

THE DIGITAL IMAGINARY

Literature And Cinema Of The Database

SWITCHING CODES

Thinking Through Digital Technology In The Humanities And Art

CULTURES IN WEBS

Hypermedia And The Documentary Image

VÉRITÉ TO VIRTUAL: Conversations On The Frontier Of Documentary Arts And Visual Anthropology

THE LANGUAGE OF WINE: An Anthropology Of Work, Wine And The Senses

INSIDE - OUTSIDE An interactive installation for Undaunted: Five America Explorers, 1760 – 2007, APS Museum.

CONCEALED NARRATIVES

Off-Center (Podcast Interview)

Storytelling in VR, CAVES and Other Emerging Forms

The Poetics of Combinatory Cinema

Roderick Coover in conversation with Pat Badani

Database Film

Human Collaboration and Machine Generation Across Media

Interrogating Torture

Location and Immersion

L’anthropocène au prisme du cinéma élargi : reconfigurer les espaces et les imaginaires Pour d'autres espèces d'espaces. Editions Hermann. (2026).

Combinatory Film And The Digital Imaginary. Travaux interdisciplinaires sur la parole et le langage, No. 40. 2025.

Code-Driven Narratives. Interactive Film & Media Journal. Vol. 5 (1-2), 2025. Read it.

Choice, Chance and the Database Transforming Narrative Structures through Combinatory and Generative Cinema. Interactive Film & Media Journal, 4(1-2) Watch it.

Imaginaires numériques: le film interactif, algorithmique, immersif et géolocalisé. Cahier Louis-Lumière n°13. 2020. (En français). Lire le texte.

Addressing Torture in Iraq through Critical Media Art. Roderick Coover et al. Electronic Book Review. 2021. Read it.

Voices from Troubled Shores: Toxicity: a Climate Change Narrative. Roderick Coover, Scott Rettberg. EBR. 2018. Read it.

Ambiguity, cinema and the digital documentary image. In Images, Ethics, Technology. Ed. Sharrona Pearl. Routledge. 2015. Read it.

Visual Research And The New Documentary. Studies in Documentary Film, 6.2. Winter 2013. Read it.

Picturing the Great Unknown. On Writing With Photography. Eds. Liliane Weissberg et al. University of Minnesota Press, 2013. Read it.

Digital Technologies, Visual Research and the Non-fiction Image. Advances in Visual Methodology. Ed. Sarah Pink. SAGE, 2012. Read it.

Interactive Media Representation. The SAGE Handbook of Visual Research Methods. Eds. Eric Margolis et al. SAGE Publications, Inc. 2011.

A Dialogue about the Desert. Electronic Book Review. February, 2010. Read it.

Artifacts: Displacements Of Technological Culture And The Concept Of Foreignness. Media-N Journal. Spring 2009.

Le panorama digital et l’image documentaire aujourd’hui : quand la transgression d’un postulat naturaliste crée l’innovation. Ethnographiques. Summer, 2008.

Interactive Media And The Construction(S) Of Memory In Nonfiction Film. The Cinema Of Robert Gardner. Eds. Barbash, Taylor. Palgrave. 2008. Read it.

Czech Dreams In A Capitalist Republic. Film International. May 2007.

Filmmaker To Filmmaker: Robert Gardner And The Cinematic Process. American Anthropologist. September 2007. Read it.

Politics of the Pomelo: Fighting Censorship In Malaysia. Cineaste Film Journal. June 2007.

Touchy Subjects: An interview with Malaysian Filmmaker Amir Muhammad. Cineaste Film Journal. June 2007.

DUST, An American Western In The Balkan Wild East; An interview with Milcho Manchevski. Film Quarterly. Winter 2005.

Working With Images, Images Of Work: Digital Interface, Photography, And Hypertext In Ethnography. Working Images. Ed. S. Pink. Routledge. 2004. Read it.

Using Digital Tools In Cross-Cultural Research Analysis And Representation. Journal of Visual Studies. Summer 2004. Read It.

Contexts And Appearances: Using Images And Text In Nonfiction Digital Storytelling. NMEDIAC. Fall 2003.

Gardner And Östör: Making Forest Of Bliss. Roderick Coover and Lucien Taylor. American Anthropologist Centennial Edition. June, 2002. Read It.

Worldmaking, Metaphors, And Montage In The Representation Of Cultures. Visual Anthropology 14(4), 2001. Read it.

Biography