Officially announcing my new position:
Assistant Professor of Emergent Media in the Media Studies and Production Department of Temple University's School of Media & Communication
Saturday, October 22, 2016
Thursday, April 21, 2016
A professor on the road
I recently was at Cal State Northridge at the invitation of Dr. Ben Attias, co-editor (with Anna Gavanas and Hillegonda C. Rietveld) of DJ Culture in the Mix: Power, Technology, and Social Change in Electronic Dance Music.
I participated in a symposium entitled "Groove is in the Heart: Researching Dance Music Cultures"
alongside a group of fellow scholars who are also all DJs - a distinguished and interesting crew! Here's the lineup of participants:
I participated in a symposium entitled "Groove is in the Heart: Researching Dance Music Cultures"
alongside a group of fellow scholars who are also all DJs - a distinguished and interesting crew! Here's the lineup of participants:
- Anna Gavanas runs the Meerkat Recording Label and publishes on European DJ culture. She is a vinyl DJ who specializes in electronica, dub, dancehall, italo disco and global dance music.
- Larisa Kingston Mann is a Communication Research Fellow at Fordham University. As DJ Ripley she uses music to celebrate people’s experiences across race, ethnicity, gender and sexuality, highlighting the beauty of interconnecting.
- Hillegonda C. Rietveld is Professor of Arts and Media at London South Bank University. Gonnie has DJed in dives, clubs and festival tents; she produced her first electronic dance music record in 1982, as member of Quando Quango.
- Dr Rupert Till is Reader in Music at the University of Huddersfield, UK. He is UK Chair of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM). He produces and performs ambient techno, and publishes on dance music culture, celebrity, and sound archaeology.
- tobias c. van Veen is a writer, sound-artist, technology art curator and turntablist. Tobias has edited special issues of Dancecult focused on Afrofuturism and the dub diaspora; his DJ mixes may be found at djtobias.com.
After this, I spent some time doing research in Detroit for a project with the Detroit Digital Justice Coalition, but I also made time to participate in a DJ class organized by the wonderful Mother Cyborg!
And now I am back in New York to write up a draft of my Detroit project to present at the Law & Society Association Annual Meeting in June. New Orleans, here I come!
Wednesday, March 2, 2016
Thursday, January 14, 2016
Winter 2015
In December, I presented "Bodies and Broadcasting: Pirate Radio and Offline Musical
Community for West Indian Immigrants in New York" as part of a panel: Music on the Margins: Urban Subcultures and the Politics of Sonic Presence in Brazil, France, and the U.S..
This panel was sponsored by the Society for Ethnomusicology Sound Studies Special Interest Group, and took place at the SEM's Annual Meeting in Austin Texas.
Community for West Indian Immigrants in New York" as part of a panel: Music on the Margins: Urban Subcultures and the Politics of Sonic Presence in Brazil, France, and the U.S..
This panel was sponsored by the Society for Ethnomusicology Sound Studies Special Interest Group, and took place at the SEM's Annual Meeting in Austin Texas.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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