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Interfaces Aren’t Just Screens

New School 2019 Orientation Keynote

Sidewalk Labs’s Material Co-Design

Sidewalk’s Sidewalk

The Ethics of Automating Design

Full-Professor Review

Where Does the Time Go?

Sharing Is Tables: More Images

“Stacks, Platforms, Interfaces: A Field Guide to Information Spaces” @ Pratt, ACRL, Yale

"Time’s Interfaces"

Response to Alberto Corsín Jiménez’s "Ethnography: A Prototype"

MLA Presentation on Interfaces to Digital Collections

Maps as Media, Round 2

Response to Miriam Ticktin’s "The Politics of Sorting at Borders"

Timelines, Tickers, Maps + Dashboards: Rendering Transit Data Intelligible

Mud, Media + the Metropolis Slides

Small, Moving, Intelligent Parts

Instrumental Cities + Libraries: Articles + Interviews

Basel – Berlin – London – Weimar – Amsterdam

Infrastructural Intelligence Presentation @ Holcim Forum in Detroit

Equipment for Redemptive Living

Sonic Archaeologies

Map as Metaphor @ Center for Book Arts

Light and Looms and Libraries: Three Months in Galleries

Typology of Topologies (+ Hearing and Smelling Infrastructure)

Indexing the World of Tomorrow

Goodbye, Old Friend, and Thanks for All the Frisbees

Libraries as Cultural/Tech Developers: Two Great New Residencies

Infrastructural Intelligence

Maps as Media: Round One

The Visual Rhetoric of Resilient Urbanism

Letters, Landscapes, Textures + Topographies: I Saw More Art

Pageantry of Paperwork: The 1939 World’s Fair, Remington Rand, and Designerly Filing

Media Architectures and Archaeologies

Curating Collections + Community (Partly a Response to Manguel)

Cartographic Archive

Mapping Time

A Legacy of Critical Comedy: Remembering Jiun Kwon

Indexical Landscapes Symposium @ Art Center College of Design, October 29

Maps, Notations, Wave Forms + Flows: More Art

Gaps in the Map: Why We’re Mapping Everything, and Why Not Everything Can, or Should, be Mapped

Whatever is best

Sorting Things Out: Writing Workshop @ Art Center [Draft Syllabus]

Maps as Media Course Website

French Facades, Floods + Forensics

I Wrote About Dirt: Of Mud, Media and the Metropolis

Dissertations In the Mist

Another Four-Legged Goodbye

Scaffolding, Scribbles, Poemfields, Garden Sculptures & Ontologies: More Art

Middlewhere on Motherboard

Maps as Media: Sketching Out the Syllabus

Scaling Firewalls: OutTakes on Library Logistics

Archival Aesthetics @ Princeton-Weimar Summer School

Weimar – Berlin – Lüneburg – Copenhagen: June 14 – July 2

My "Deep Time of Media Infrastructure" is in _Signal Traffic_

The Organic Fantastic — or, Welcome to Brooklyn, Wegmans.

Cubes + Ashes, Burls + Sand: I Saw Some Stuff

Wikipedia + Feminist Epistemology, Take 2 (Babycastles Remix)

Library Design Workshop @ Smith

I Talked About Library Design @ Smith College

Meta-Aesthetics: The Art of the Art Library

Matters of Art + Design: Two Upcoming Events

"Library Think Tank" Fall 2015 Graduate Course

Aztec Infographics, Saucepan Sculptures + More Art

New Interview on Sound Archives + Media Archaeology in Amodern

"Furnishing the Cloud" Exhibition

"Spatial Organization of Media" @ SCMS

Wikipedia + Feminist Epistemology

New Places Column on Dashboards + Urban Command Centers

Maps as Media: New Fall 2015 Studio

My New Book, Deep Mapping the Media City, Is Out!

Blueprints, Collage, Camerae Obscurae, and Other Optical (and Sonic) Illusions

I Organized a Speaker Series. Hope You Like It.

Faculty for "Archive Futures" @ Bauhaus-Universität / Fellowship @ Leuphana this Summer

Scripts + Scores, Or Texts + Tones, Or Some Other AudioVisual Alliteration

Educating for the Information Future

Library Design Study Showcase, January 12

Things Without Comment

Secession Digression

"Speculative Archaeology" in Places

Knowledge Production + Infrastructural Poetics — Or, I’m Going to Sweden + Austria

Speculative Archaeology Artifacts

Ghosts and Break-Ups: Another Semester of Archives, Libraries + Databases

It’s Elemental: Circuitboards, Canvases, Chalkboards, Corrosion

The Chimerical Praxis PhD

Prints + Patterns

"Interfacing Urban Intelligence" Talk @ City + Code Conference

Tablecloths, Cats, Kites, Soot & Anthropomorphized Furniture: This Week in the Galleries

"Intellectual Furnishings" Paper Posted to Medium / GIDEST Workshop Nov. 7

In the Stacks @ Poets House Tuesday Evening

All Dogs Go To Heaven

Projective Therapy: Wodiczko’s Inner Publics

Count Me In for "City by Numbers"

Constructed Images + Caricatures; Texts, Threads + Textiles

My Talk on (You Can’t)-Do-It-Yourself Publishing

Tomatoes, Texts, Telephones + Totems: I Saw Some Art

Scaffolding, Hard and Soft: Infrastructures as Critical and Generative Structures

Graduate Institute for Design, Ethnography + Social Thought

Aesthetic Itineraries

Off to Ireland for "Code and the City" Workshop

Understanding Media Studies Monday Night Lecture Series

Lines and Nodes: Media, Infrastructure and Aesthetics: 9/19 – 21

Reclaimed Hardware

Displaying Display, Envisioning Vision

How to Be a Happier, Stronger, More Excellent Grad Student

Preservation Aesthetics: My Talk for the LoC’s Digital Preservation Conference

Nate Hill and I Talk About Libraries

Windows Within Windows

Teams Selected for Library Design Study

Faces, Furnishings & Flowers

In Rare Fashion: My RBMS Plenary Presentation

Rise of the Pod People

Dirt to Rocks: Natural and Organizational Aesthetics — or, Stuff I Saw This Week

Tuning Into the Invisible: My 99% Invisible Review Is Now in JSAH

Rights Clearances: A Method to the Mind-Numbing Madness

"Library as Infrastructure" and Library of Congress Interview Published

"Re-envisioning Branch Libraries" Design Study RFQ Announced

Accumulation, Organization, Valuation

Polysyndeton: When Art Hurts

Advisee Accolades II

Platform Shifts: My Spring 2014 Digital Archives Studio

Animated Spaces Article (on Exhibitions for Interaction and Architectural Design) Published in Senses + Society

Urban Interfaces Article in Places

The Hand + the Copy

Lebbeus Woods: The Politics of Small Things

Traces: Things I’ve Seen & Want to Remember

It’s Become Increasingly Obvious That I’m an Incorrigible Structuralist

My Review of Hillel Schwartz’s Making Noise Is Finally, Well, Making Some Noise (Metaphorically Speaking)

Animating the Archive: Ben Vershbow Visited My Archives Class, Too

The Poetics of Metadata: Collective Access’s Awesomeness

Also @ SCMS: "From Libraries to Labs: Spaces of Media Access, Making and Learning"

SCMS: Understanding Media at 50

CFP: Lines and Nodes: Media, Aesthetics and Infrastructure

Understanding Media @ 50

Scripts, Standards, Lists + Diagrams

Intellectual Furnishing: The Physical and Conceptual Architectures of our Knowledge Institutions

(Counter)Logics and Deep Histories of the Zone (the case of Paju Bookcity)

Workshop: Working with WordPress

Old School New School

Outtakes from Smart City Interfaces

Aesthetic Reconstruction

Wire Mesh & Sunsets: A Tribute to My Office Window

New Syllabi and Websites for Spring "Digital Archives" + "Sound and Space" Studios

Interface Critique, Revisited: Thinking About Archival Interfaces

Interface Critique

Tracks + Traces: More Art

The Antecedents

Mapping Gyros, Juloos, Disaster Ruins, Beer, Fallout Shelters, Drive-Ins, Serial Killers, and Other Stuff

"Archives, Libraries + Databases": Semester 3 Recap

Spaces for Critical Action in Urban Software Art

My Spring 2014 "Digital Archives + Institutional Memory" Studio

Tanya Toft’s New "Urban Media Aesthetics" Platform – w/ Events This Tues + Wed

Aesthetic Bounty — or, Binging on Artstuffs

Recover Lost File: I Wrote About Ben Fino-Radin and Lori Emerson on Preserving Obsolete Media for Nautilus Magazine

From Libraries to Labs: Spaces of Media Access, Making and Learning – A Workshop @ SCMS 2014

Tuning Into the Invisible: Roman Mars’s 99% Invisible

New Places Article on Data and Methodolatry in Urban Research

Otlet, Bush + Proto-Databases

"Bureaucracy’s Playthings" in Reanimation Library’s Word Processor Series

Reanimating Interference: Our Visits to the Reanimation Library + Interference Archives

Spring 2014 "Sound + Space" Graduate Seminar/Studio @ Dumbo Media Center

The Cultural Techniques (+ Political Economy) of Theory-Making

Empyrean Index

DataSpaces: InFORMing the Urban Landscape

"Ear to the Wire: Listening to Historic Urban Infrastructures" Now Out in Fabulous New Issue of AModern

Maps + Markings: Another Art Roundup (Harriet Bart, William Kentridge, Nathan Carter, Barry McGee + More!)

Community Archives, Universal Intellectualism, and Other Fruits of the Capitalist Garbage Bucket (Or, My Trip to the Gramsci Monument)

Critiquing Maps II

Well, We’re Done Here. I’ve Won, Apparently 🙂

Urban Media Archaeology: the Fourth and Final Dig

Archives, Libraries + Databases, Take Three

Libraries Big + Small

Why Study Archives, Maps, and Infrastructures?

Hey, Come Back! Pondering Enrollment Drops

Infrastructural Tourism Article Published in Places Journal

Wall Mark-Up

The Fog

Revisiting the Helsinki MediaCity Conference

Deep Mapping the Media City: Slides from Helsinki Keynote

My "Hearing Infrastructures" Talk at HUMlab in Umeå, Sweden

Northern Resonances: Talks in Sweden + Finland

Measurement Aesthetics

Solutionism By Another Name — or, When You’ve Got Algorithms Aplenty, the Whole World Looks Like Data

Advisee Accolades: I’m Honored to Know These People

Archiving Learning as a Messy, Partial, and Political Process

Platform Shift: Teaching on (Intentionally) Shaky Ground

Digital Pedagogy and Archives: Two Events This Week

Things I’ve Seen

Curating, Conserving + Preserving – Talk @ Cornell

Stack Aesthetics II: Labrouste’s Bibliothèques

Stack Aesthetics I: Micro Libraries + Airan Kang’s "Luminous Words"

Cage’s "Experimental Composition" and Other New School Curricular Treasures

Underground Library: Cute Idea, Slightly Shady Premise

Sounding Smart — or, Knowing Your Medium

Little Free Libraries / New York Jury

ArchaeologyPLUS — This Week @ SCMS Chicago

Review of Hillel Schwartz’s Making Noise in Current Musicology

No, Not Everything is on the Internet. And No, Libraries Aren’t Antiquated.

Choreographing the Ephemeral, or, More Art Stuff

I’m the New Editor of The New Everyday. You Should Submit Something.

Donkeys and Digitization Save Timbuktu’s Manuscripts

500 Years of Wunderkammern, from Cabinets to the Cloud

Grade-School Historical Determinism

Murdoch on Carnegie: The Wall Street Journal’s Library Coverage

Taking the Sabbath out of Sabbatical

Paju Bookcity on Places

Taking Note of Notes

How I Spent My Winter Vacation

Evaluating Multimodal Work Republished in Journal of Digital Humanities

Orders of Things: Archives, Libraries & Databases Semester Recap

Embracing Those Gaps on the Map: Urban Media Archaeology, Take 3

Pigeons, Swings & Eraser Dust: Ann Hamilton’s The Event of a Thread

Infrastructures for Thinking About Infrastructures

Off to HUMLab for Infrastructure | Space | Media Symposium

Animated Spaces: Experience and Context in Interaction and Architectural Design Exhibitions

Writing about Talking to Me: An Exhibition Review

Spectacular / Ordinary / Contested Media City Conference, Finland, May 2013

Jury-Rig It: Shadow Infrastructures

Sensing Awry: Designing Multimedia Exhibitions

Designing Multisensory Exhibitions

Bookcity Slides

THATCamp Theory Presentation

Through the Bathtub, Into Another World…

Workshop on Evaluation/Critique of DH Projects @ THATCamp Theory, October 13

Small Breaths, Big Ships

Media Archaeology Crib Sheet

Statuary and Soft Drinks

Revisiting Paju

Koolhaas’s Libraries

Urban Media Archaeology — Now Even *More* Awesome! (…in my humble opinion)

The Lectures of Fall Supplant the Songs of Summer

Evaluating Multimodal Work, Revisited

Urban Media Archaeology, Round 3

Archival Projects from the Archive

New Archives, Libraries & Databases Course Website

The Tenure Verdict: My Own Personal Closing Ceremony

Figure/Ground Asked Me About Academic Careers, Teaching, and Other Stuff

Miscellaneous Miscellany

Seoul: Week 3 – Paju + The Vertical Village

Re-Centering Centre County: Life After Football

Sounding Towers on CCA’s Site

Seoul: Week 2

Protected: Infrastructural Tourism

Seoul: Week 1

Credit + Context in Design Reviews

The Forms of Data in CLOG

Lewis Mumford, Sensory Historian

Arquine + Archizines

Hearing Infrastructure

…with the noise of a great tumult he hath kindled fire upon it…

Concrete, Glass and Orange Juice

Aliens to Armoires: Philosophical Carpentry

Ticker Tape + Temporality

Little Libraries Article Published on Places

A Few Revisions

Scholars and Ruffians: Eschewing Elitism in the NYPL Debate

Media + Materiality Final Projects

Media + Architecture Projects

Theoretical Humility

Sorting Network Artifacts, Part 2

Sorting Network Artifacts, Part 1

Archizines’ Fluttering Pages

Dirty Media Archaeology

Enough ‘New Aesthetic’ Already!

Archives, Libraries + Databases, Round 2

Iconic Images: Photography + Architecture

Deep Time of Media Infrastructure

Parabolic Post-Hermeneutics

Architecture & the Attraction of Collectivity

Parsing Noise

Koolhaas & Carrère

Vocal Stylings

Lynn Spigel on George Nelson’s Storage Walls

Time Sinks and Black Holes

Radio City: Sound, Space & The City

Googled

Imminent Incidents

Fragrance and Fracture

Matters of Radical Media

Biblio-Melancholia

Artist as Typographer

Media & Architecture Syllabus

Being There: Chicago’s Open Door

Strings, Stones and Skeletons

Think Again: IBM, Eames, Informatics

Cartographic Excess

Media & Materiality, Round 2

Books, Barges, Bones & Material Biographies

Off You Go With a Manifesto

Misophonia Sinfonia

IYLSSIF 6: Tools & Methods

IYLSSIF 5: What Media Studies Makes: Forms of Scholarship

IYLSSIF 4: The Order of Things

IYLSSIF 3: Mapping the Field

IYLSSIF 2: Finding Your Place in the Field

If You Love Something, Set It Free — Or, Why an Intro to Grad Studies Class?

Kill Your Darlings

I Know This Already

No Thing Unto Itself: SoundMatter

Beyond the Seminar Paper

Alliterative Accomplishments: Ben’s Buried, Bundled & Behind Closed Doors

Manifesto Lost & Found

Urban Research & Mobile Media

It Didn’t Have to End Like This

Thinking Think

My Classroom Is Open To You. There Will Be Fireworks.

Reading and Listening to Extinction and Vitality

Click, Scan, Bold, Copy, Post

What the Hell Is Wrong With You, Delicious?!

Microscopes, Woodworms, Overhead Projectors, the Stasi Archive, and Ein Perfektes Paar

Magnetic [Media] Fields

Music for Staring at Ceilings… and Typefaces… and Cities

stillspotting

Everything Is Infrastructure

Everything Is Infrastructure

Paper, Ash & Air: Material Remembering

Some Stuff I’m Doing This Fall

Um, excuse me. There seems to be a human at the center of your object-oriented ontology.

Yes, on occasion it has taken me an entire day to prep for a 2-hour class, but…

No Big Whoop

Urban Media Archaeology, Second Time Around

Seasonal Listening

Revisiting Craft 2: Tools of Craftsmanship

Revisiting Craft I: Teaching the Connections Between Thinking and Making

Otherworldly & Untimely

Old-School PreFab

Talk to Me, And Tell Me What On Earth You Are, Little Plastic Doohickey

Spatial Humanities

Before the tribunal of the world I submit the following / document:…

Pedagogical Maneuvers Through Space and Time

882 Pages

Trending at the Speed of Capital

NYPL Apps & Games: Making "Extraordinary Futures"?

Kinetic (Social) Sculpture

This Is Your Life! Or, The Hardest 12 Pages I’ve Ever Written

Information Isn’t Free

Speculative Whatnots and Whatchamacalits

Objects: Taped, Tracked, Theorized

Site Object Experience: ICA 2011 Presentation

NYPL @ 100 Part 2: Speaking of Context… Shuffle + Find the Future: The Game

NYPL @ 100: Finding Future Contexts

A Vicarious Sense of Accomplishment

It Should Go Without Saying…

Producing the Public: May 9

Sentience and Sedulousness

How May I Help You?

Tasty

The History of Universality, Technological Determinism, and Other Deep Thoughts

Fun With Light

We’ve Got the Archive Fever… Achoo!

Course Building

Networked Libraries

A Place for the "Enduring Delight and Significance of Poetry"

More Materiality

Wait, *I* Did That?!

Woodberry…Finally

DH: The Name That Does No Favors

Feel It All Around

Clip/Stamp Note-Trimming

Click/Scan/Bold/CUT: Outtake #4: Oh, Just Take It All, Why Don’t You?

Click/Scan/Bold/CUT: Outtake #3: The New Materialism

Click/Scan/Bold/CUT: Outtake #2: Clip/Stamp/Fold Exhibition Reviews

Click/Scan/Bold/CUT: Outtake #1: Little Magazines of the Early 20th Century

The Other Spring Class, Ready to Go

Archive This!

Learning Through Digital Media

Reading Rooms Are All the Rage

By George, I Think I’ve Got It!

Getting Organized

Of Pigeons and Power Plants

New Materialism on Display

Not So Delicious. Quite Bitter, Actually.

Syllabus Headache

The Other Spring Class

This Is Happening

The Last Newspaper

Yarn, Crayons, Archives & Copyright

Libraries, Archives & Databases

It’s Pneumatic

Ceci n’est pas une bibliothèque

Plug-In Syllabus

Theory-Practice PhD Programs

Notes, Lists… in The Chronicle

Puffery and Critique in the "Other Spaces" of Architectural Discourse

"Notes, Lists, and Everyday Inscriptions" Issue of The New Everyday

New Fall 2010 Course Websites

Process, Collaboration, Epistemology

Critiquing Maps

Off You Go With a Manifesto

Conference Tips

Engaging With Presentations + Asking Questions

Forms of Scholarship: Multimodal

Forms of Scholarship: Writing

The Literature Review/Mediagraphy

Abstracts + Annotated Bibliographies

Resource Management + Note-taking

Reading Effectively

Finding Sources: Where to Look, and How to Decide What’s Worth Your Time

Evaluating Multimodal Student Work

Chicago Sound

From Post Offices to Radiograms: Local Primary Resources on Urban Media History

The Big Dig: Urban Media Archaeology

Call for Proposals: 2011 Society for Cinema and Media Studies Workshop on "Urban Informatics, Geographic Data, and Media of Mapping"

Media & Materiality Syllabus…Slowly Materializing

Letterheads, From the Late Victorian New York Communication Internetwork

TWMHADH, Part 3

Trying to Wrap My Head Around the Digital Humanities, Part 2

Trying to Wrap My Head Around the Digital Humanities, Part 1

Finds at the National Archives

Archival Souvenirs

Renovation

Into the Archives

Identifying Your Interests and Establishing a Research Plan

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