This project explores how scholarly technique is shaped by the technologies used to produce it by documenting the growth and development of a long-term scholarly interest through multiple iterations culminating in a digital artistic installation presented using the Creativity Studios of North Carolina State University’s James B. Hunt, Jr. Library as part of the 2014 North Carolina Literary Festival whose topic was “The Future of Reading.” The installation was entitled, Projections: Exploring Reading and Writing in Emerging Technologies (or How an Apparatus Becomes Self-Aware). In the essay that follows and in the descriptive work amended via the toolbar above, I reflect on the role of the scholar as producer, creating and expanding the applications of emerging technologies of writing.