Wendy Hui Kyong Chun
Wendy Chun is Professor of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University. She has studied both Systems Design Engineering and English Literature, which she combines and mutates in her current work on digital media. She is author of Control and Freedom: Power and Paranoia in the Age of Fiber Optics (MIT, 2006), Programmed Visions: Software and Memory (forthcoming MIT, 2011), and she is co-editor of New Media, Old Media: A History and Theory Reader (Routledge, 2005) and of a special issue of Camera Obscura entitled Race and/as Technology. She will be a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton next year and has been a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard, a Wriston Fellow at Brown and a fellow at the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women, as well as a visiting associate professor in the History of Science Department at Harvard. She is currently working on a monograph entitled Imagined Networks.
Closing keynote address: “Crisis, Crisis, Crisis, or The Temporality of Networks”
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Textaural research notes | April 20, 2011 at 11:34 am
[...] contact with so many great minds. It was also great to see Wendy Hui Kyong Chun do her talk on the Crisis, Crisis, Crisis, or The Temporality of Networks. Surprisingly, during her talk she kept on talking about the undead quality of source code. Truly, [...]