I am Chair of the Department of Art History and Communication Studies. When not chairing, I hope to make some progress on my book manuscript MP3: The Meaning of a Format and a SSHRC proposal. I am also looking forward to a 3-week tour of Australia in July and August.

2008

Australia Tour (31 July-19 August):

31 July, “Sound Reproduction After Noise: MP3 and the Limits of Perception,” at the Technologies of Listening Workshop, University of New South Wales

1 August, Open door day at UNSW

7 August, “Format Theory,” University of Melbourne.

8 August, Open door day at the University of Melbourne

11 August, Open door day at the Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies, University of Queensland

12 August, “The Historical Emergence of Perceptual Coding,” Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies, University of Queensland

15 August, “The Historical Emergence of Perceptual Coding,” University of Sydney

23 October, Title TBA, “Sound Effects Conference,” Center for Cultural Analysis, Rutgers University.

2009

2-4 January, “The Algorithm of the Voice: Suzanne Vega’s ‘Tom’s Diner,’” Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, New York City.

23 January, Title TBA, Department of Music, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.

13-14 February, Title TBA, Listening In, Feeding Back conference, Columbia University, New York City.

late February, Music department colloquium, University of California Los Angeles (title TBA)

2 March, STS colloquium at University of California, San Diego (title TBA)

13 April, STS Colloquium at Cornell University (title TBA)