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The Call for Papers is now live for our Global Mediations Lab workshop on April 25-26, 2025: Cultural Politics of the Computational Image. Details below and at the GML website. Computer vision and computational photography is proliferating rapidly worldwide, transforming the cultural understanding of image making in the process. While facial recognition technologies have been…

I’ll be giving a short talk as part of the ‘Spatial Justice’ event in the MIT Spatial Sound Lab’s Dissolve Music 2024 festival this Friday (Oct 4, 2-5pm)

I’m giving an online talk at the University of Kansas on September 26, 2024 as part of my new project on spatial photography and photogrammetry. More information and restration here.

I’ll be doing a zoom talk at Humboldt University (Berlin) next week, discussing my work on telepresent labor and giving some updates on recent developments. Looking forward to learning from the digital labor + migration research going on there. Reg details below — — Migrants & Machines: Automation and the Future of Labour Migration December 13,…

I’ll be appearing on Ukawa Naohiro’s DOMMUNE arts/music/cinema livestream show (one of the longest-running in Japan) this Saturday to discuss ambience in Japan with some of the other folks from the Ambient Japan special issue of Ele-king, along with a live audience at the Nerima Art Museum. Here are the details (in Japanese).

I have a couple pieces in the new special issue on Japanese ambient music from the stalwart Japanese music magazine Ele-King. A new essay,「kankyō ongaku」の発明 (the invention of ‘kankyō ongaku’), and a translation of the Hosono Haruomi section from Ambient Media.

Nice to learn The Immersive Enclosure has won the 2023 The Lewis Mumford Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Technics, from the Media Ecology Association. Also, a new essay exploring Japanese responses to the metaverse is out now with Media, Culture & Society (open access preprint here).

My first book, Ambient Media: Japanese Atmospheres of Self, is now free to read in open access thanks to generous support from the MIT Libraries. Check it out at Minnesota’s Manifold platform or in pdf.

A short article from me sketching out a new research trajectory around what I’m calling nauseogenic media—media that make people nauseous—and how they might change the way we think about the history of the moving image. A contribution to the recently launched CAVRN (Critical Augmented and Virtual reality Research Network) website, which has a range of…

Doing a few different talks about the metaverse and YouTube ambience videos this March: In London at the Translating Embodiedness symposium (3/13), at the Association for Asian Studies in Boston (3/19), and at Princeton as part of the Figure Ground Media lecture series (3/29). A couple more to follow in April.