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Troubled Presence

This site is undergoing reconstruction (been a long time coming!).
Many things have come to pass. For more recent information, please visit my UBC Faculty Profile or the Digital Literacy Centre research website.

For latest music albums, please visit BandCamp sites for Emetics & The Hired Minds. If you want the funky stuff, try Hard's release of Chromanoise!

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Research, Scholarship and Teaching

The PhoneMe Project

A social network for place-based, spoken poetry. Soon to be a mobile app, coming summer 2021 on the App Store and Google Play... to enjoy the web-based version, please visit the our site at phonemeproject.com, with over 400 poems from around the world.  

The Patch: Digital Methods of Arts-based Research

This project explores how we can treat any text as generative of new texts and meanings through creative analogue to digital transmediation, glitch, and collaborative exploration and play with language. See some experiments we have undertaken at the DLC HERE

Poetic Inquiry

A collection of spam poetry.
"... dust entered the room, your breakfast still warm clung to supper, clasping a..." read more SPOESIA

About

Kedrick James is an Associate Professor of Teaching in the Department of Language and Literacy Education, Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia. He is the Director of the Digital Literacy Centre, a research centre focused on arts-based research and digital innovation in language based educational technologies and networks. He brings to his work a live lived in the literary scenes of Canada and the U.S. He is a poet by calling but has worked in many different media as an artist, director and producer. He is an avid audio composer and experimenter, and has worked with a wide variety of musical ensembles. He has a wide variety of publications in scholarly books and journals, books of poetry, and works in his specialization of teacher education in English Language Arts. He currently lives between the Boundary Country of British Columbia where he undertakes an ecological mission to help to preserve heritage grassland and the City of Vancouvers where, among other things such as teaching courses at the university, he is a dedicated music collector and vinyl archivist and sports a collection of over 12,000 records.

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