Tuesday, November 17, 2015

Fall 2015

October 24-26 I was speaking at the  ELEVATE festival in Graz, Austria. Further discussion of that here.


Nov 16 I participated in a Copyright Academic Showcase at Howard University under the auspices of the Howard Law School Student Intellectual Property Law organization and the Institute for Intellectual Property and Social Justice

Nov 17 I was on a panel at a policy event hosted by the Re:Create coalition on copyright & the creative economy, at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library in Washington, DC.




Sunday, February 8, 2015

Recent public work

The beginning of the year was lively, here's what I've been up to before the summer changeover into music and research!

February 14 I'm participating in the following conference: Collective Creativity: Collaboration and Collectives in Feminist Art Practice at the Museum of Art and Design in New York. I will be presenting on "Power Collaboration and Lies." I'm especially excited to be speaking alongside a thinker, writer, scholar and activist I really admire, Sydette Harry, and I'm grateful to the artist and New Media professor Katherine Behar for inviting me. The whole thing is sponsored by the Feminist Art Project.

February 18-22 International Association for the Study of Popular Music's Annual Meeting in Lousiville KY. Moderated a panel :  "Making the Most Out of Your Dissertation in Popular Music Studies"

March 17-22 SXSW-Music in Austin TX: "How and Why to Let Others Remix/Mashup Your Work"

March 27-29 Utah State University: Presentation and panel discussion on hip-hop and technology, a DJ gig at the Norah Eccles Harrison Museum of Art at Utah State as part of their "Art & Music" series.

May 1: Dartmouth College: Guest lecture - "Gender and technology in global dance music." Dj Gig at Hop Garage.







Monday, February 2, 2015

Welcome to 2015

Forthcoming projects & research interests include

UK pirate radio, based on a paper I've been working on -  “Exilic airwaves: UK pirate radio and the tower block” last presented at the Symposium: What is the Place of Intellectual Property? Symposium, McGill University, Montreal, CA, June 26. In this, I look at the role of failed government infrastructure projects in creating spaces (accidentally) for autonomous cultural practices.

Ethnic radio in New York City, especially its persistence in pirate and terrestrial formats, linked to an investigation of how different immigrant communities manage visibility and invisibility on various media platforms.

A project on community-generated privacy norms, addressing the failure of dominant models of "privacy" and "security" that assume the experiences and risk factors of able bodied, white male cisgender heterosexual citizens as a starting point. I am working to develop a toolkit for how specific communities (and the organizations that serve them) manage the specific harms facing them.