a transdisciplinary inquiry — Originally presented at Reimagining Communication: Epistemologies and the Future of Communication Studies, an ICA ’22 pre-conference, Paris May 25th, 2022 (72nd Annual Conference of the International Communication Association). In this paper I will discuss a multi-epistemic research agenda associated with the development of a new digital media display technology and…

A Udemy Course — This free Udemy course offers a comprehensive introduction to theories and practices of sound design, with a focus on moving images — that is, soundtracks for film and video. This is not a software how-to course, where you learn some specific application, though Audacity and Reaper are the recommended tools. …

A Real-Time Motion Graphics Environment for Performance Visuals, NFTs and Beyond — Optophonia is an audiovisual app for Mac and PC, a creator community and an NFT marketplace for the production, curation and dissemination of visual music. Optophonic art involves the temporal composition of moving images produced in tandem with music production. The centerpiece software is based on Unreal Engine’s leading edge…

Fundamentals for Creative Exploration — The Core Tech The general idea of electronic oscillators and their waveform primitives is widely understood in the realms of audio and music, whether in the context of synthesizers or just producing test tones for calibrating equipment. …

The Role of Clip Libraries in Creative Making — The Key Metaphors Databases in video art can be used practically or creatively. It’s the latter use that is most of interest here, but it’s worth touching on the former use first just to get it out of the way and establish some general context. One can think of a ‘database’ in different…

Some Aesthetic Considerations — Game engines, being basically engines for the simulation of anything that exists in time and space, and which is subject to physical laws like cause and effect — which is, like, everything! — can be used to make music videos through their integrated cinematic tools. Doing so, however, is somewhat…

Decolonizing Data, Information Disorder, Algorithmic Ethics, AI & the Future of Work, China’s Digital Civilization — Open call for book chapters for Vols 6–10 of the new Routledge short form book series, Algorithms and Society. Each volume, based on Routledge’s Focus format, will have 4–5 chapters. The volumes planned for 2022 are: Algorithmic Ethics Decolonizing Data China’s Digital Civilization

Deep Fakes: Algorithms and Society focuses on the use of artificial intelligence technologies to produce fictitious photorealistic audiovisual clips that are indistinguishable from traditional video media. For over a century, the indexical relationship of the photographic image, and its related media of film and video, to the scene of capture…

Democratic Frontiers: Algorithms and Society focuses on digital platforms’ effects in societies with respect to key areas such as subjectivity and self-reflection, data and measurement for the common good, public health and accessible datasets, activism in social media and the import/export of AI technologies relative to regime type. Digital technologies…