Speakers: Matthew Battles, Harvard University, Holly Melgard, City University of New York, and Peter McMurray, University of Cambridge
A roundtable with Holly Melgard, Matthew Battles, and others (tbc)
Matthew Battles: Silence and Sight on the Far Side of the Moon
Matthew Battles is a maker and thinker whose work merges literary, scholarly, and artistic forms of inquiry. His writing on the cultural dimensions of science and technology appears such venues as The American Scholar, The Atlantic, Harper’s Magazine, and The New York Times. His most recent book, TREE, was published by Bloomsbury in 2017. At metaLAB, Matthew advances an agenda of creative research exploring the dark abundance of collections in libraries and museums; technology’s impact on our experience of art, culture, and the natural world; and the conditions of culture and experience in the context of deep time.
Peter McMurray: Sonic Agnosia: Towards Unknowing Sound
Petter McMurray is University Lecturer in Ethnomusicology at University of Cambridge. He is currently completing a book and media project, Pathways to God: The Islamic Acoustics of Turkish Berlin. Other interests include audio ethnography, histories of sound recording (especially tape), oral poetry, and refugee sonic arts. He received his PhD in Music from Harvard with a Secondary Field in Critical Media Practice.
Holly Melgard is the author of the books Poems for Baby trilogy, The Making of The Americans, Black Friday, Reimbursement (Troll Thread), Cats Can’t Taste Sugar (Gaus PDF) and the chapbook Catcall (Ugly Duckling Presse). Along with Joey Yearous-Algozin, she has also co-authored White Trash (Troll Thread) and Liquidation. Having recently completed her PhD in the Buffalo Poetics Program, she is currently teaching writing at CUNY, freelance book designing, co-editing Troll Thread press, and living in Brooklyn, NY.
