“Sound Studies and the Digital Humanities: A Work in Progress,” Digital Humanities Series, University of Sussex.
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21 October 2011, Princeton University
“Perceptual Coding and the Domestication of Noise,” Department of Music Colloquium Series.
30 September 2011, Cabinet, NYC
Revisiting Extinct Sounds, discussion with artist Sari Carl and Curator Leah Abir. See footage of the world’s only working phonautograph. The invite actually mentions beer.
Summer 2011
I am a Mellon “Alliance for Networking Visual Culture” Fellow at the University of Southern California’s NEH Institute for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities, 18 July-11 August. Before that, I’m mostly on vacation in Los Angeles. I return to Montreal mid-August.
1 July to 12 August 2011, USC, Los Angeles
I will be a Mellon “Alliance for Networking Visual Culture” Fellow at the University of Southern California’s summer institute on digital humanities.
Spring 2011
I am a fellow in residence at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University for the 2010-11 academic year. Having gotten some major writing projects off my desk, I have turned my attention to interviewing people about signal processing, and reading about the same, as well as disability studies, digital… Continue reading Spring 2011
Academic Labor in Communication Studies — Call for Papers, Commentary and Multimedia (Deadline 1 June 2011)
(apologies for cross-posting; please distribute widely) International Journal of Communication Feature Special Section on Academic Labor and Administration in Communication Studies Edited by Jonathan Sterne Academic labor today is characterized by a series of disconcerting trends: an increasingly casualized professoriate; universities that increasingly depend on chronically undercompensated part-time and graduate student labor to support their… Continue reading Academic Labor in Communication Studies — Call for Papers, Commentary and Multimedia (Deadline 1 June 2011)
Winter 2011
I am a fellow in residence at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University for the 2010-11 academic year. I am really making a push to get the final edits off my desk for MP3: The Meaning of a Format (Duke University Press, 2012), so pardon my slowness on other… Continue reading Winter 2011
26 February 2011, Experience Music Project Pop Conference, Los Angeles
“Music and Consumerism, A Long View” as part of a panel entitled “Whatever Happened to Capitalism?” Experience Music Project Pop Conference, UCLA.
11 February 2011, University of California-Berkeley
“Perceptual Capital: MP3s, Imagined Auditors, and Real Surpluses”, Department of Music Speaker Series, 4:30pm.