Electronics Faire: Keynote - Other Networks presented by Lori Emerson

Lecture Series 1:00 – 2:00 PM

• Will Hallet, Godzilla vs Voltron: A Theoretical Overview of Low Tech Aesthetics
• Jacob Weinberg, Encountering Entropy, Low and High
• Lily Crandall, Archiving Family Memories through Interactive Textiles
• John Petitt, A/V Archiving at the SCRC

Break: 2:00 - 2:15 PM

Keynote Lori Emerson: 2:15 – 3:15 PM

Lori Emerson is Associate Professor of Media Studies; Director of the Intermedia Arts, Writing, and Performance Program; and Associate Chair of Graduate Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder. She is also Founding Director of the Media Archaeology Lab. Emerson writes about the history of telecommunications networks, the history of computing, media archaeology, materialist media studies, laboratories, and digital humanities. She is currently working on a cluster of research projects she calls “Other Networks” or histories of telecommunications networks that existed before or outside of the Internet. Emerson is author of the forthcoming Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook (Anthology Editions, 2025), co-author of THE LAB BOOK: Situated Practices in Media Studies (University of Minnesota Press, 2022), author of Reading Writing Interfaces: From the Digital to the Bookbound (University of Minnesota Press, 2014), and editor of numerous collections.

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