Tuesday, March 27, 2012

SCMS 2012

I just returned from the Society for Cinema and Media Conference in Boston where I participated on a panel called Signal Traffic: Researching Media Infrastructures with Jonathan Sterne (McGill University), Nicole Starosielski (Miami University of Ohio), Shannon Mattern (the New School), and Cristina Venegas (UCSB). This panel emerged out of our "Signal Traffic: Art, Infrastructure, and Geography" workshops at UC Santa Barbara last year, which were funded by the UC Institute for Research in the Arts and the UC Humanities Institute. More info can be found here: http://www.signaltraffic.org/

Nicole Starosielski and I will be organizing a larger conference on this topic in 2013. Stay tuned...

Around the Antenna Tree: The Politics of Infrastructural Visibility

Around the Antenna Tree: The Politics of Infrastructural Visibility
see my Flow column by clicking on the image

New Book

New Book
This book has just been published. An expanded version of my essay "Obscure Objects of Media Studies" is in it

"When Satellites Fall"

"When Satellites Fall"
Click on this photo of orbital debris to read my essay posted on Flow

Goodbye Rabbit Ears: Thoughts about the Digital TV Transition

Goodbye Rabbit Ears: Thoughts about the Digital TV Transition
see my Flow column by clicking on the image

Max Greuter's catalogue

Transmediale Opening - Roaming

Transmediale Opening - Roaming


Participants in CEU Seminar

Naran Satellite Station, Mongolia

Naran Satellite Station, Mongolia
Intersputnik dish

Former herder now a white phone worker

Inside Choijin Lama Temple

Inside Choijin Lama Temple

Naran's Grandma and the rug she made

Naran's Grandma and the rug she made

Satellite Dishes and Solar Panels for Sale at Black Market in Ulaanbatar

Satellite Dishes and Solar Panels for Sale at Black Market in Ulaanbatar

Ponjee and his Nokia phone

walking phone = yavdag utas

Wireless Phone Workers

Wireless Phone Worker

Wireless Phone Worker

Satellite Dish and Tool Seller at Black Market