I will be in Montreal most of the summer, before going on a year’s sabbatical starting 1 September 2010. I am finishing revisions on MP3: The Meaning of a Format (forthcoming from Duke University Press, 2012) and a few very overdue essays. In June, I am also finishing up treatments for a non-deadly (but still very unpleasant) thyroid cancer. More details for the curious on my blog. My speaking engagement in Rio is tentative at the moment, but fall engagements are more certain.

2010

5-6 August, Rio de Janeiro. “What Difference Does a Format Make? MP3, Mediality and Audibility” Keynote lecture at Rumos da Cultura da Música: negócios, linguagens, estéticas e audibilidades (Music Culture Trends: Businesses, languages, aesthetics and audibilities). Organized by the Universidade Federal Fluminense and Globo Universidade.

September 2010-May 2011, Fellow in Residence, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University

17-18 September 2010, UCHRI Workshop on the Voice, University of California-Irvine.

11-12 November, Title TBA, “Signal Traffic: Art, Infrastructure and Geography,” University of California-Riverside

14-17 November, Attending (but not presenting at) the Annual Convention of the National Communication Association, San Francisco.

2011

28 January, keynote, digital humanities event, University of Oregon.