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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
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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