Anna Weisling

Biography

Anna Weisling is a practice-based researcher at the intersection of art and technology. The focus of her work includes diversity and outreach in STEM education, human-computer interaction, and digital performance. Former employers include the University of Central Missouri, the Juilliard School, Audio for the Arts Recording Studio, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater.

Education Credentials

Ph.D., Digital Media, Georgia Institute of Technology
M.A., Sonic Arts, Queen's University Belfast
B.A., Communication and Electronic Media, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater

 

Teaching Areas

Media theory, art and digital tools, audio engineering, critical making, interaction design, prototyping and fabrication, sound and image

 

Listing of Select Publications

• Contribution: “Provocations on Media Architecture.” Set Margins’ Press. June, 2023.
• Long, Duri, McKlin, Tom, Weisling, Anna, Martin, William, Blough, Steven, Voravong, Katlyn, and Magerko, Brian. "Out of tune: discord and learning in a music programming museum exhibit." Proceedings of the Interaction Design and  Children Conference. 2020.
• Long, Duri, McKlin, Tom, Weisling, Anna, Martin, William, Guthrie, Hannah, and Magerko, Brian. "Trajectories of Physical Engagement and Expression in a Co-Creative Museum Installation." In Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Creativity and Cognition. ACM, 2019.
• Nitsche, Michael, and Weisling, Anna. "When is it not Craft?: Materiality and Mediation when Craft and Computing Meet." In Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction, pp. 683-689. ACM, 2019.
• Weisling, Anna, Xambó, Anna, Olowe, Ireti, and Barthet, Mathieu. "Surveying the Compositional and Performance Practices of Audiovisual Practitioners." In Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression, pp. 344-345. ACM, 2018.
• Weisling, Anna, and Xambó, Anna. "Beacon: Exploring Physicality in Digital Performance." In Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction, pp. 586-591. ACM, 2018.
• Xambó, Anna, Drozda, Brigid, Weisling, Anna, Magerko, Brian, Huet, Marc, Gasque, Travis, and Freeman, Jason. "Experience and ownership with a tangible computational music installation for informal learning." In Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction, pp. 351-360. ACM, 2017.
• Weisling, Anna. "The Distaff: A Physical Interface to Facilitate Interdisciplinary Collaborative Performance." In Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Designing Interactive Systems, pp. 1365-1368. ACM, 2017.
• Weisling, Anna. "The Rest is Construction: An Interactive Installation Evoking Somatic and Cognitive Effects of Anxiety." In Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 3893-3896. ACM, 2016.