Jon McKenzie is Director of DesignLab, a digital composition center, and Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he teaches courses in performance theory and new media. He is the author of Perform or Else: From Discipline to Performance (Routledge 2001) and such articles as “Global Feeling: (Almost) All You Need is Love,” “Performance and Globalization,” and “Towards a Sociopoetics of Interface Design.” He is also co-editor of Contesting Performance: Global Sites of Research (Palgrave 2011). His work has been translated into a half-dozen languages. McKenzie has also produced a number of experimental video essays, including The Revelations of Dr. Kx4l3ndjer (2012) and This Vile Display (2006), and gives workshops on performative scholarship and smart media.
