[ISEA2012] Paper: Douglas Kahn – THE NATURAL HISTORY OF MEDIA

Abstract

The media arts situate themselves in part in relation to historical media theory in which the earth has been written out. This talk will introduce ways in which the earth has been in and out of circuit with telecommunications systems since the nineteenth century and other broad features of a natural history of media.

  • Douglas Kahn (born 1951) is Professor of Media and Innovation at the National Institute for Experimental Arts (NIEA) at the University of New South Wales, Australia, and Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Davis, where he was the Founding Director of Technocultural Studies. [source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Kahn]