Out today and a must-read! Lisa Diedrich's Forerunner, Illness Politics and Hashtag Activism! @lldiedrich #IllnessPolitics upress.umn.edu/book-division/…

#chi2024 new concept for #haptics called haptic permeability. Do not optimize tactile devices only for quality of virtual sensations, optimize for letting the user to also feel the real world with maximum dexterity, by @tengshanyuan

dolph lundgren & grace jones going clubbing in NYC (1984)

Several NYU schools/departments have voted "no confidence" in Linda Mills's leadership as president. Citing that her "actions endanger not only academic freedom but also the safety of our community.” Gallatin School of Individualized Studies

My essay "The Afterlife of an Optical Device, or Making the Lantern Kosher" is now openly accessible in this wonderful volume; it is truly an honor to be featured in it alongside brilliant texts by such a stellar group of scholars!

happy to say my book, Language Machines: AI Between Cognition and Culture is now forthcoming from U of MN Press in the Posthumanities series bc of the wonderful Doug Armato - on bookshelves early 2025

The NYU encampment has been cleared for 2 weeks, and there's still regularly about 10 or so NYPD milling around there, dicking off on their phones & cashing OT checks. But sure, we can't afford to keep the libraries open on Sundays.

Records by Demonix (Gitane Demone & Marc Ickx) and Black Lung (David Thrussell) are up for discussion on this week's podcast. idieyoudie.com/2024/05/23/we-…

My first book is on Victorian spiritualism and magic, the second on Artificial Intelligence. They seem to have nothing to do with each other but in reality they do. In this chapter on "human-automata interaction," I bring the two threads together... researchgate.net/publication/37…

10th July. 'Digital Touch' book Launch IN_TOUCH_UCL highlight 2019 Over 25 thinking pieces published from a wide range contributors such as Dr Kate Cowan @jeffbezemer Frederik Brudy @lisamaythomas Q+A with Dave Parisi by 2022 there were over 50 pieces! in-touch-digital.com/category/senso…

Please stop using AI-generated event descriptions for your goth/industrial club nights. They read like invitations to indoor trick-or-treat events at the mall.

🗓️ Mark your calendars!🗓️Next month, ROMchip is hosting Chaim Gingold and Will Wright for a discussion of Gingold's new book 🏙️ BUILDING SIMCITY 🏙️ Event will broadcast live on Twitch Friday, July 19 @ 2PM EST. Grab your tix here: app.tickettailor.com/events/romchip…

“An ambitious and far-reaching examination of #touch’s present and ongoing reconstitution through its encounters with the digital. A comprehensive, significant, innovative and timely book.” Dave Parisi, New York University Carey Jewitt & Sara Price’s ‘Digital Touch’ is out now!

🚨 JOB ALERT FOR THREE ACADEMIC POSITIONS @ MIT 🚨 My department at MIT is hiring for 3 positions this coming year! Two are at the assistant level (applications opened yesterday), and the third is a senior level position (applications will open August 1). Apps due Aug 30!

My book, Interactive Cinema: The Ambiguous Ethics of Media Participation (U of MN Press) is finally out! 🥳 Keep an eye (or hand) out for an interactive exhibition & other book launch events coming this Fall! upress.umn.edu/9781517915223/…

Freelancers: please pitch ROMchip!! We've got a fun opportunity for someone looking to write a longer form piece in the area of video game history (very broadly defined!).

Coming up this Friday IDM NYU in Brooklyn, we're kicking off our FLESH FEEDBACK speaker series, with Keith Kirkland as our 1st guest. Lots of practical/design talk about the challenges of effectively bringing haptics devices to market.