Please join us in welcoming Patrick Keilty, our next guest of the year, who will present “Processing Pleasure” on Tuesday, February 3, from 5-6:30PM PT. This event will take place in the Board Room at the Humanities Center; refreshments will be served. Zoom link for those unable to join in person:  This talk examines the early history of electronic payment processing, as told by the engineers who developed the technology in the 1980s.

EXTRA/PHENOMENALITIES opened last Thursday, January 22, and will be up until March 13, 2026 at the Stanford Art Gallery. Here are some impressions, along with my remarks, from the opening (courtesy of Anja Ulfeldt).

"Race, Repetition, and Seriality in Games and Contemporary Media." Videogames and race have intermingled since the earliest days of the medium, yet game studies has yet to develop a sustained methodology to contend with the racial logics and aesthetic practices embedded within game texts. How do videogames function as racial projects? Does race function as a structuring force within game design?

On Feb 5, 2026 (5:00-6:30pm), I'll be participating in the InterPlay Salon alongside Michele Elam and Charlotte McCurdy at the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford. We'll be presenting short PechaKucha-style talks. Mine will focus on my recent art and curatorial efforts with the non/phenomenal collective, including our current show EXTRA/PHENOMENALITES at the Stanford Art Gallery. More info and registration here.

EXTRA/PHENOMENALITIESJanuary 22–March 13, 2026Stanford Art Gallery OPENING RECEPTION: Thursday, January 22, 5-7pm What are the limits of experience? This exhibition explores forms of appearance that press against the edges of perception—phenomena that are felt only indirectly, sensed as traces, intensities, or disturbances rather than as stable objects. “Extra/phenomenality” refers to this ambiguous zone of surplus and slippage: where aspects of the world exceed or elude our usual modes of noticing, while still shaping how we see, feel, and understand.

We are excited to announce our first event of 2026! Hannes Bajohr will present on "The Latent Space of Meaning and the Novel" on Tuesday, January 13, from 5-6:30pm PT. The event will take place in the Stanford Humanities Center Board Room. Refreshments will be served. Zoom link for those unable to join in-person: tinyurl.com/3xm7rdku We look forward to seeing you there!

Norms in the Age of Intelligent Machines -- a two-day conference organized by Shane Denson, Armen Khatchatourov, and Johan Fredrikzon and sponsored by the France-Stanford Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, Villa Albertine, and the Stanford Department of Art & Art History -- will take place at Stanford on December 4-5, 2025. SpeakersMorehshin Allahyari (Stanford)Hannes Bajohr (UC Berkeley)David Bates (UC Berkeley)

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Rounding out my trip to Canada, I'll be giving a talk about my recent book on Bride of Frankenstein at the University of Toronto's Centre for Culture and Technology on Nov. 10! Info and registration here.

On Nov. 9, 2025, Karin Denson and I will give an artist talk, titled "Non/phenomenalities: A Hodological Laboratory for Unstable Times," at the Western Film &amp; Art Festival. In line with the festival theme of "Emerging Visions of AI, Art, and Environment," we will be discussing our recent artistic and curatorial collaborations around AI and environments, both natural and computational. Selected pieces from our ongoing series GlitchesAreLikeWildAnimalsInLatentSpace! will also be screening throughout the festival.

I'm excited to be giving one of the keynotes at the Media Theory Conference 2025 at the Centre for Culture and Technology in Toronto. On Nov. 8, I'll give a talk titled "AI as Existential(ist) Risk and Aesthetic Opportunity." Here is the abstract: Contemporary debates around artificial intelligence often frame the technology in terms of “existential risk.” Yet such framings rarely pause to consider what&hellip;