Rorotoko is a long-running academic website which has interviews and features about books. For April 12th I was the cover interview on the front page. The interview is a series of four main points about the book: 1, “In a nutshell.” What is this book all about? What are its unique arguments and/or features? How... Continue Reading →
This is a wonderful-looking event I'm speaking at with some fascinating people. Organized through the Institute of Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH) at the University of Edinburgh, where I am a Fellow this semester. Do come along! Imagining Artificial Life: breaking through the screen Tuesday 15 November, 17:30-18:30 BST at the Traverse Theatre What... Continue Reading →
From September 1 to December 31 I will be Institute of Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH) School of Social and Political Science (SSPS) Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh for a project on social robots in the Edinburgh area. An office, a stipend, some seminars, and some empirical research. Looking forward to starting... Continue Reading →
Another virtual book exhibit, another big juicy temporary discount for the How We Became Sensorimotor book. This time, it's the Society for Cinema and Media Studies 2022 and the official virtual book exhibit is here. The details: -Society for Cinema and Media Studies sale: http://z.umn.edu/scms22-40% discount code for SCMS titles: MN89020
My new book with University of Minnesota Press, How We Became Sensorimotor: Movement, Measurement, Sensation was published in October 2021. You can buy it from the publisher themselves, or the usual book retail outlets including Amazon US and UK, and the Book Depository (which has free worldwide delivery). The book is the culmination of years... Continue Reading →
The Society for Literature Science and the Arts (SLSA) conference in late September and early October, plus the 4S (Society for the Social Study of Science) conference early October both had virtual book exhibits. University of Minnesota Press featured my upcoming How We Became Sensorimotor book in their collections for the book exhibits. There is... Continue Reading →
This is very exciting - an interdisciplinary day conference on touch at the Nouvelle Sorbonne in Paris, organized by Dr. Caroline Pollentier, and the launch of the Touch, Arts, Affects (TACT) network. There are talks throughout the day by touch scholars and artists, and I'm giving the Keynote at the end of the day, 'Social... Continue Reading →
What follows is an announcement that my coeditors and I have had our special issue proposal for the journal Transactions in Human-Robot Interaction accepted by the editors. We have a Call for Papers - do join us! Guest Editors: Mark Paterson (University of Pittsburgh), Guy Hoffman (Cornell University), Caroline Yan Zheng (Royal College of Art) Rationale... Continue Reading →
A few months ago an independent curator, Maryam Ghoreishi, contacted me about her exhibition 'Out of Sight, Beyond Touch' at the Center for Book Arts in New York scheduled for early summer. This was before the COVID-19 lockdown got serious, and the intention was to have the work of four Persian artists on show, with... Continue Reading →
material encounters: a workshop on more than human touch This is a British Academy funded Workshop around robotics and care organized by Amelia DeFalco (Medical Humanities, University of Leeds) and Aimee van Wynsberghe (Robot Ethics, Delft University, Foundation for Responsible Robotics). They asked me to speak, and my paper will be “Sensational Interactions with ‘Sociable... Continue Reading →
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