Raiford Guins Director of Cultural Studies Assistant Professor Principal Editor, Journal of Visual Culture Department of CLCS 2121 Humanities Bldg Stony Brook University Stony Brook, NY 11794-5355 Phone:(631) 632-7466 rguins@notes.cc.sunysb.edu

Raiford Guins is an Assistant Professor of Digital Cultural Studies, member of the Consortium for Digital Arts, Culture & Technology, and a founding Principal Editor with the Journal of Visual Culture (Sage).

His work on governance and technology is the subject of his book, Edited Clean Version: Technology and the Culture of Control(University of Minnesota, 2009). Raiford has co-edited Popular Culture: A Reader (Sage 2005) and The Object Reader (Routledge 2009). He has contributed chapters to the following collections: the MacArthur Foundation Series Learning Race and Ethnicity: Youth and Digital Media (MIT, 2008), AfroGEEKS: Beyond the Digital Divide (Center for Black Studies, UCSB, 2007), The Prosthetic Impulse: From a Posthuman Present to a Biocultural Future (MIT, 2006), Horror International (Wayne State, 2005), The Techniques of Terror: The Films of John Carpenter (Wallflower, 2005), The Visual Culture Reader 2nd Edition(Routledge, 2003), and Lost Highways: An Illustrated Guide to the Road Film (Creation, 2000). His research also appears in journals such as: New Formations, Vectors, West Coast Line, Television and New Media, Journal of Visual Culture, and Parallax.

He also teaches and writes about video game culture and history. Raiford is fascinated by video games: the cultural memory and preservation of games, games as artifacts, games and politics, and places of play. At SBU he teaches Video/Computer Game History in the Fall and Video/Computer Game Culture in the Spring. His research is not just glued to the screen. He photographs old arcade games and follows the ephemera of video game culture wherever it may take him. This has resulted in the construction of a Video and Computer Game Archive at SBU where students can research game consoles from the 1970s - early 1990s. He is currently writing a book on "game stuff" entitled, Arcadeology: Excavations in Video Game History, Memory, and Preservation.