Name:	David Joshua Benin CV
Education:	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Communication, University of California, San Diego Master of Arts in Cinema Studies, New York University New York, NY, 2000 Bachelor of Sciences in Social Science Education and Political Science cum laude, The University of Georgia Athens, GA 1999
Interest:	I am currently interested in bodies – what they can do, what they can’t do, and how different systems of knowledge come to suppose to understand them. This theoretical interest is directed towards bodies that exist at the nexus of science, technology, and sport. I am examining the technological body of sport in a variety of arenas, including the bio-medical regimes of performance enhancement, adaptive technology, architecture, and “virtual reality.” Such an amorphous, shifting object of analysis necessarily requires an interdisciplinary lens, and I draw theoretical and methodological tools from Science and Technology Studies, Media Studies, and Cultural Studies. I am also a media “producer”, and explore my theoretical and creative interests through film, video, sound art production, and other digital forms. My current production work, Hors Catégorie (authored with Chris Calabro) is an interactive fiction set along the Tour de France bicycle race. Hors Catégorie experiments with bodies, bio-technologies, ethics, affect, virtuality, and what it all has to do with new media ‘writing.’ It can be accessed at: http://www.cs.ucsd.edu/~ccalabro/hors_categorie/index.html.