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 --
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Saturday morning 11/19 I will participate in a workshop on The Immersive Enclosure as part of the Fall conference of the Japan Association for...
I spoke with Recall This Book about The Immersive Enclosure, virtuality in Japan, and why people should read more early VR criticism & fiction. Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts:
