Following from the ARI Roundtable on Speculative Southeast Asian Aesthetic Urban Futures held on the 31st of May 2022, I discuss Southeast Asian speculative fiction and art as critical and ethnographic counterpoints to the plethora of technological and financial urban futures promoted in Southeast Asia here in this piece, Visualising ‘Asia as Future’ through speculativeContinue reading ““Visualising ‘Asia as Future’ through speculative Southeast Asian Aesthetic Urban Futures” on ARIScope”
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“Words of Weather: A Glossary” (companion publication to ‘Weather Engines’ exhibition)
The art exhibition Weather Engines, which is curated by Daphne Dragona and Jussi Parikka, is running until the 15th of May 2022 at Onassis Stegi in Athens. Edited by the curators, the publication Words of Weather: A Glossary complements the exhibition with entries by academics, artists, philosophers and architects. My entry Extremes in the volumeContinue reading ““Words of Weather: A Glossary” (companion publication to ‘Weather Engines’ exhibition)”
The Art of the Archive, ICIS workshop at UC Davis, 21st May 2015
[updated: A link to the CASTAC blog coverage of the event here] I am excited about the prospect of presenting with my colleague and friend, Xan Chacko, the ideas we are engaging with in our respective dissertation projects at The Art of the Archive, an Innovating Communication in Scholarship workshop, held on the 21st of May, 9.30Continue reading “The Art of the Archive, ICIS workshop at UC Davis, 21st May 2015”
Paper Machines
I had the privilege of attending historian Jo Guldi‘s workshop on Paper Machines, a Zotero plug-in that can ‘read’ through scores of online archived texts (as long as they are OCR PDFs), and pull out key trends in word usage and geographical positions from the aggregated data. The plug-in is extremely useful for scholars engagedContinue reading “Paper Machines”