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phd from @stanford . theorizing digital images thru artifacts (moiré, aliasing, stroboscopic effects). academic+industry research. ex robot operator.
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this photo of Dante’s Inferno is the same as the cross-section of a cruise ship
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omg. feeling the ecliptic plane as horizontal is an incredible experience. top priority if you have not experienced it !!!
works best on a clear night, a half moon, and at least 3 visible planets. mind blowing when it clicks.
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very few phenomenologists of digital media are saying this. sad
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🌀✨🌀✨🌀✨🌀✨🌀
Please join us for our next Digital Aesthetics Workshop!
Alexander Galloway will present "'No Deconstruction without Computers': Learning to Code with Derrida and Kittler"
March 7 @ 5-7pm PT
In person:
Zoom:
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Incredible moiré studies in Gerald Oster's 1963 Scientific American article "Moiré Patterns"
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✨🌀Digital Aesthetics Workshop🌀✨
We are excited to announce our first event of the year with Luciana Parisi ! Please feel free to come in-person if you’re in the area.
When: October 20, 2-4pm PT
Zoom:
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i’m defending soon, and just have to gloat about the incredible poster
@elisecarlton
made for it 🥳🥰
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🌀🚨CFP: Media Aesthetics🚨🌀
Announcing a special issue of the open-access journal communication+1: "Media Aesthetics."
Full CFP here:
500-word submissions due December 1.
Please feel welcome to submit, and share widely !
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if i had a media theory class i’d teach freud’s early neuronal theory of consciousness alongside derrida, since he basically is inventing a theory of writing, and kittler, to think about the ‘surface effects’ of φ neurons, semiconductors, and the invention of the transistor
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Wrote this little piece on “glinting”—as a marketing aesthetic for HDR, a perceptual phenomenon, and a regime of images—which together help us understand some of the preconscious consequences of computational media.
What is the elusive gleam that's reflecting off so many surfaces in so many ads really selling?
"The Glint" by
@h_gerba
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My defense is this coming Wednesday—if any friends want to zoom in to the public section (30 mins: a short introduction by me, with audience questions) let me know !
i’m defending soon, and just have to gloat about the incredible poster
@elisecarlton
made for it 🥳🥰
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yea so basically you’ll know your salmon is done when the butter starts communicating textually
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look it’s media archaeology
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i asked ChatGPT to rewrite Plato’s Phaedrus, except Phaedrus keeps getting distracted by a REALLY cool train
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Navi is in full support !
Got any SGWU-UE supporting pets? We’d love to meet them! Reply or QRT with your favorite pics of them!
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✨🌀! Digital Aesthetics Alert !🌀✨
Please join the Digital Aesthetics Workshop for "Six Theses on an Aesthetics of Always-On Computing" with James J. Hodge !! Super excited about this one, our last speaker of the academic year.
April 30, 5-7pm PT
Zoom:
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phd temporality
It's scary what's happening. People who, only 5 years ago, were 25 or 27 at most, are now 30 and in some cases even 33 years old
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people ask me ((nobody asks me)) why I focus on the oscillation between digital and analog as a technico-sensory operation of mediation. and i always reply ((i have no occasion to reply)) that it’s because it is the minimum formal description of indeterminacy
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I emailed steve jobs as a kid to complain about my first laptop breaking over and over, and he emailed back saying I should be thankful that they kept replacing it lol
found this great steve jobs clip
steve would like to remind you to send cold DMs and emails!!!
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Anybody have art historical (or other) sources on shimmering/glowing/shining/scintillating/glinting ?
Whether water, bubbles, metals, crystals, paints, gold, lenses, screens, etc. ?
I just KNOW there's a lot out there that I haven't come across, so very grateful for anything !
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Moiré effects were used in currencies around the world to render them irreproducible.
Through its technical mastery, the state quite literally emerges from overlayed patterns as a perceptual form and force of authentication.
Thanks for letting me pursue the collection
@stewf
!
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Digital Aesthetics Workshop with
@bernardionysius
…if you ever wondered what it looks like irl 🌀
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horror, which we might think of as a body genre, also demonstrates the mode of objective technicity (the exteriority) peculiar to images—they “won’t get out of our heads.” because images are neither abstract nor concrete, they freely inhabit individuals as much as collectives.
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Organizing the Digital Aesthetics Workshop was the best thing I got to do as a grad student—I made so many friends, both with speakers and attendees. Especially thru lockdown it was really grounding.
We’ve run over 50 events since it began, and I hope to attend 50 more : )
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I don’t think Jim Hodge is on here (wise) but to any phd students in media theory, the “Rhetoric, Media, Publics Summer Institute” is one to keep on your radar for sure. Just did it and it was great 🥲
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!🌀Digital Aesthetics Workshop🌀!
A conversation across two new books: Jean Ma’s 𝘈𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘌𝘥𝘨𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘚𝘭𝘦𝘦𝘱: 𝘔𝘰𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘐𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘚𝘰𝘮𝘯𝘰𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘚𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘴 and Tung-Hui Hu’s 𝘋𝘪𝘨𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘓𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘨𝘺.
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this is on Tuesday !!
🌀✨🌀✨🌀✨🌀✨🌀
Please join us for our next Digital Aesthetics Workshop!
Alexander Galloway will present "'No Deconstruction without Computers': Learning to Code with Derrida and Kittler"
March 7 @ 5-7pm PT
In person:
Zoom:
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Very happy to announce, alongside
@medieninitiativ
and
@gracehahahan
, the return of the Digital Aesthetics Workshop.
We’ll be hosting talks starting this fall, and run and throughout the coming academic year—stay tuned 🌀✨
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some slides from my SCMS talk in which I:
1) analyzed Weaver's 1948 paper
2) introduced a methodology for studying "technical difficulties," a class of medium-independent phenomena which present rich opportunities for media history and philosophy.
3) did a few gags
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just learned that inputs and outputs on interface control documents were once colloquially referred to as “goesinas” and “goesoutas” and i think we should bring that back
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Just received confirmation that the Digital Aesthetics Workshop will return for academic year 2023-2024 !!!!!!!!!!!!!
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this trick in the new Spider-Man game, where the PS5’s SSD speed allows for rapid map traversal, is demoed here so purely and intentionally that it’s hard not to read the sequence as an aesthetics of data transfer !!
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✨🌀Digital Aesthetics Workshop Alert🌀✨
Neta Alexander joins us for our next event on April 18 !
She will present “The Right to Speed-Watch (or, When Netflix Discovered its Blind Users). I’ve been looking forward to this one all year : )
Zoom:
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💽💾💿 ! Alert ! 💿💾💽
The next Digital Aesthetics Workshop is upcoming on Nov 10 !
We’re excited to be exploring the
@mediarchaeology
lab with
@rose_alibi
...including a live take-apart-along of household technology.
Open to all, register here:
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Getting literal vertigo from just how tenuously descriptive ‘you’re always looking at the camera’ is of what is actually going on here, and yet how powerful.
Tech’s biggest victory is maintaining ‘the individual’ even as it scatters the ashes along weighted vectors.
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I was just introduced to this fascinating paper about using aliasing to restore manga !
“Exploiting Aliasing for Manga Restoration”
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periodic (hah) reminder that the logistic map is a 2D shadow of the Mandelbrot Set
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Now that it’s getting a bit colder, I’m reminded of this. Still one of the coolest things i’ve ever seen. As this tree warmed after a snowy night, water was flowing beneath its still-icy shell.
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I used this processing sketch to demonstrate how moiré patterns arise as a product of digital sensing 🌀
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🚨🌀Digital Aesthetics Alert🌀🚨
Join us for our next event, “Harvesting Light,” with Thomas Lamarre !
December 5, 5-7PM
I’m super excited about this one.
Zoom Registration:
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Excited for this ! I’ll talk about the diss !
Intermediations/MTL Presents: Mediation Between the Lines -- January 29, 2024
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Honoring my sweet dog Java who died peacefully today. He made it to 16, has been with me the majority of my life, and I am so proud of him.
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We are incredibly excited to be hosting
@bernardionysius
at the Digital Aesthetics Workshop, January 17 @ 5pm PT !
He’ll briefly touch on his upcoming book () before moving onto some exciting upcoming work ; )
Zoom Registration:
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my new therapist was like ‘sounds like your life is defined by Double-Binds’ and i was like,,
🧐
ur gonna drop cybernetics on me with only 5 minutes left in the session ?
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dear anyone presenting at scms tomorrow, there is still time to redo your whole paper to be about comprehending this
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“Art effects of a mode of separation which is at almost every instance problematic...but there’s a way that the aesthetic animates art, runs through it, destroy it. What remains of the aesthetic in the work of art?”
—Fred Moten, rn, at a roundtable.
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surely a banger 🫡
keep your eyes peeled for Technics, appearing open access in a few short weeks—the tenth volume in our "Key Debates" series! Annie van den Oever and I are deeply grateful to
@AmsterdamUPress
and to our 28 authors for their brilliant contributions!
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Diss Friday Fact:
It's impossible to tell a media archaeology of the moiré effect without moiré silk ! Produced via a process called calendaring, it's been used for centuries. Though a sort of forgotten origin, the "moiré effect" is an abstraction of its unique appearance.
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“In Defense of the Poor Image” in 2023 means watching depressed Mario play NES in The Super Mario Brothers Movie hosted on
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This, as far as I or anyone else can tell, is the first published explanation of aliasing.
From "Grundlagen und Methoden der Periodenforsmung" by Karl Stumpff, published in 1937.
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i am no economist but the situation with AI is pretty simple. training AI models is very capital-intensive, and, historically, capital-intensive technologies consolidate wealth.
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me,
undercover wearing cap and gown,
sat among professors on stage,
operating Sophia the Robot w a $100 laptop I bought at Best Buy,
giving RISD’s 2018 commencement speech,
in which it sung a Björk song,
misidentified by the Providence Journal as the robot’s creator.
l m a o
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We usually think of "anti-aliasing" as a strictly computational process, but this lamp is doing it too.
In a shop with fluorescent lights, the stroboscopic effect can cause a turning lathe to appear still. An incandescent "reading" lamp will anti-alias in this situation.
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Media theory, when it comes to computational objects, really needs aesthetics. I think it’s because there’s still a huge gap between how we think of experience and how we think of information—aesthetics gets us in the weeds of that tension. And the stakes couldn’t be higher.
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It’s very cool when you reject grad students from the field’s yearly conference. It’s even better if those students serve as secretary for one of your organization’s SIGs. Oh and if they have a stellar panel, be SURE to reject.
Anyway, have fun at SCMS everyone !
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The Digital Aesthetics Workshop is starting back up !
Our first event will be a conversation between Vivian Sobchack,
@medieninitiativ
, and Scott Bukatman. If you’d like the Zoom link, feel free to DM me !
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!✨🌀The Digital Aesthetics Workshop is back 🌀✨!
We will be hybrid this year, so feel free to register remote for our first event with Erich Hörl:
Description below ⬇️
@medieninitiativ
@gracehahahan
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this is why moiré and aliasing are interesting and important. Together they comprise a class of medium-independent interference phenomena which act as a sort of “aesthetic proof,” if you can say such a thing exists, of the below…
people ask me ((nobody asks me)) why I focus on the oscillation between digital and analog as a technico-sensory operation of mediation. and i always reply ((i have no occasion to reply)) that it’s because it is the minimum formal description of indeterminacy
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‘the analog’ and ‘the digital’ are kinds of relationships, okay ? nothing else. you’ll get confused otherwise.
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I talked about this at SCMS: the necessity to critique, historicize, and deflate emergence. It’s what feedback was to cybernetics, but worse.
The hype is tangentially ontological, but for whomever it is actually addressed, economic: the promise of value which produces itself.
One AI program spoke in a foreign language it was never trained to know. This mysterious behavior, called emergent properties, has been happening – where AI unexpectedly teaches itself a new skill.
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happy to chat with anyone interested in attending this—and you should be !
CFP: 2024 Stanford-Leuphana Academy -- "Art, Technology, and the Problem of Acceleration"
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*preparing for qualifying exams*
*has one drink*
the entire history of cybernetics must be rewritten
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i thought i was going to finish this 8-bit computer project before finishing the diss, but now it’s looking like a summer project.
if anyone needs two 8-bit numbers added or subtracted, i’m now renting time on this cluster starting in July.
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media studies phd students during lockdown
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this is what doing a phd feels like
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🌀✨! THATS A WRAP !✨🌀
Thank you
@bernardionysius
,
@m_b_fazi
,
@HowManyCooks
,
@tunghui
,
@netalexander
,
@RadSoftGroup
, Jean Ma, Erich Hörl, Mark Algee-Hewitt, and Mihaela Mihailova for this year’s Digital Aesthetics program.
@medieninitiativ
,
@gracehahahan
and I had a blast :)
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diss as one (1) tweet: transduction occurs fundamentally thru analog and digital processes, and through interference (moiré, stroboscopic effects, aliasing) we gain access to a primordial image of transduction associated with technologies of the multiple (grids, sampling, arrays)
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SIGSALY, the WWII vocoder-based encryption system, depended on a key to ensure secrecy: records etched with thermal noise.
These recordings were produced by the Muzak company, which made elevator music.
"The difference between chaos and strategy has become just that slight."
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! Digital Aesthetics Alert !
Join us for our next event, "Acting Algorithms: Animated Deepfake Performances in Contemporary Media," with Mihaela Mihailova. It'll be at 1pm PT !
Zoom / description:
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following the v generative series of threads that
@TinaRiversRyan
has been prompting the last few days.....what are people's favorite writings on glitches ? Obviously this is ink-soaked terrain, so I'm curious what texts people have responded to most and why ?
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So happy that the special issue of Media-N, "No Template: Art and the Technologies of Race," has been released ! I contributed a review of Legacy Russell's "Glitch Feminism." 🍥
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Amazing visit to the Media Archaeological Fundus with Wolfgang Ernst 🫨 (and the cute dog outside)
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*has gotten
programming languages should count for phd language requirements if you study the computer 🫡
What unpopular academia opinion would get you in this situation?
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phenomenology is mostly great but they’re super wrong about consciousness being phenomenal, it’s somewhere from between ‘ok’ and ‘bad’
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i have engaged with this famous Art in a superior way: by revealing that it contains my dissertation
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One of the most generative media theoretical questions right now, which you find in many methodological flavors and across many objects of study, is:
"how to become collectively unavailable ?"
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had to (very rapidly !) throw this proposal together, and thought it was a good representation of some of how I'm treating aliasing in the dissertation...
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who is writing about this ?
i mean, heLLO
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