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...
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Mon, 04/10/2023
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...
Fri, 03/10/2023
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...
Thu, 11/17/2022
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...
Wed, 10/12/2022
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:
Sat, 04/16/2022
My new book The Immersive Enclosure: Virtual Reality in Japan is now shipping (though the official release date is not for a few weeks). I also have a pair of book talks at Harvard this month:
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Mon, 07/05/2021
I was interviewed for this new documentary for BBC Radio 3 on Japanese environmental music (環境音楽) in the bubble-era 1980s: "Tranquility, Inc."
Wed, 04/28/2021
I wrote about the development of YouTube "ambience videos" for Real Life magazine, drawing from my research on ambient media and VR to think about what it happens when ambience becomes positioned as a kind of substance available through...
Wed, 09/09/2020
New essay from me on the work of solitary animation production, looking at how the labor animators put into their work shows up in the aesthetics and affects onscreen. The essay is part of an ongoing side...
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