DESCRIPTION: In 1903, German apothecary Julius Neubronner fitted homing pigeons with tiny dual-lensed pneumatic cameras in order to produce unmanned aerial images. I argue that Neubronner’s experiment is suggestive of a much more substantial dovetailing of birds with the modern project of overcoming distance and contend that the field of media studies has overlooked the...Continue Reading

This year we started doing some readings as a lab as a way to focus our monthly meetings...Continue Reading