BERNARD DIONYSIUS GEOGHEGAN Senior Lecturer, School of Media and Performing Arts, Coventry University Email: [email protected] Web: www.bernardg.com ACADEMIC AND EDUCATIONAL POSITIONS 2016- Senior Lecturer, School of Media and Performing Arts, Coventry University 2016-2017 Visiting Associate Professor, Film & Media Studies, Yale University 2011-2016 Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter Institute fur Cultural History and Theory, Humboldt University of Berlin 2008 Visiting Professor American University of Paris, Department of Global Communications 2007 Visiting Fellow, Institute for Research and Innovation, Centre Pompidou 2005-2006 Assistant Instructor, Northwestern University 2000 Research Fellow, Institute for the Study of Money and Culture Harvard University SELECT CURATORIAL AND MEDIA PRODUCTION ACTIVITIES 2014- Co-Curator and Educational Programmer, Technosphere & Anthropocene Projects Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin) 2012- Producer and Host, Cultural Technologies Podcast 2011-2016 Instructor at Humboldt University, coursework included experimental coursework in programming, digital video, and steaming media 2007 Co-Producer, La Modernité sans la Modernisation Institute for Research and Innovation, Pompidou Center (Paris) 2005-2006 Assistant Instructor, Northwestern University, coursework included digital animation & experimental art practices 2001-2002 Digital Media Production Instructor, Spark Media Project (Poughkeepsie) 2000-2006 Consultant and Ghostwriter for Desgrippes Gobé (a.k.a. BrandImage) EDUCATION 2012 Binational Ph.D. from Northwestern University (Screen Cultures) and Bauhaus-Universität Weimar (Faculty of Media Studies) Dissertation: “The Cybernetic Apparatus: Media, Liberalism, and the Reform of the Human Sciences” 2011 M. A., Media, Technology, and Society Northwestern University 2007 & 2009 Visiting Student Sciences Po-Paris 2007-2008 Visiting Student Massachusetts Institute of Technology Program in History, Anthropology, Science, Technology, and Society Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan (CV) · February 2017 · Page 1 / 10 2001 B. A., Language and Literature Bard College EXTERNAL FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS, AND GRANTS 2016 Visiting Professor, Film and Media, Yale University (Mellon Foundation) 2015-2016 Fellow, CONNECT, Trinity College Dublin 2015-2016 Internationale Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften, Vienna (declined) 2015 Fellow, Digital Cultures Research Lab, Leuphana University 2014 Junior Fellow, Internationale Kolleg für Kulturtechnikforschung und Medienphilosophie, Weimar 2012 IEEE Life Members' Prize, Society for the History of Technology (for best new essay on electrotechnology) 2011 Schachterle Essay Prize, Society for Literature, Science and the Arts (for best new essay by a nontenured scholar) 2010 Short-Term Fellowship, Huntington Library (declined) 2009 Predoctoral Fellowship (three years), German Research Foundation, (final year declined) The Melvin Kranzberg Dissertation Fellowship, Society for the History of Technology History Fellowship, Association for Computing Machinery 2007 Bruns Graduate Student Essay Award, Society for Literature, Science and the Arts Graduate Research Grant, Graduate School, Northwestern University Research Grant, French Interdisciplinary Group, Northwestern University 2005 Jacob K. Javits Fellowship (Four Years) Featured Speaker in Doctoral Showcase, Digital Culture and Heritage 2005 Meeting, Paris, France Excluded: Internal fellowships, grants, and awards from Bard College, Bauhaus- Universität Weimar, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Northwestern University. PUBLICATIONS Work in Progress Digital Cosmologies: A Cultural History of Information, monograph in preparation for the University of Chicago Press. Interfacing. Monograph on media archaeology of the environmental screen, co-authored with Francesco Casetti Peer Reviewed Articles and Book Chapters “The Family as Machine: Film, Infrastructure, and Cybernetic Kinship in Suburban America.” Grey Room 66 (Winter 2017). “What Bound the Double-Bind?” Grey Room 66 (Winter 2017). “Claude Lévi-Strauss et les Communications.” In Les Résonances Des Structuralismes, Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan (CV) · February 2017 · Page 2 / 10 edited by Jean-François Bert and Jérôme Lamy, 113–19. Paris: éditions des archives contemporaines, 2016. “Information.” In Digital Keywords: A Vocabulary of Information Society & Culture, edited by Benjamin Peters, 173–83. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016. “The Spirit of Media: An Introduction.” Critical Inquiry 42, no. 4 (Summer 2016): 809–14. “Mind the Gap: Spiritualism and the Infrastructural Uncanny.” Critical Inquiry 42, no. 4 (Summer 2016): 899–922. “Friedrich A. Kittler, Professor” (with Christian Kassung). Critical Inquiry 42, no. 4 (Summer 2016): 963–77. “Ecologies of Disclosure: On Aesthetic Compositions of Technics and Life.” Spheres 2 (December 2015). http://spheres-journal.org/comment-to-bjornsten-stephenson/. “Occult Communications: On Instrumentation, Esotericism, and Epistemology.” Communication +1 14, no. 1 (2015). http://scholarworks.umass.edu/cpo/vol4/iss1/1/. “Visionäre Informatik: Notizen über Vorführungen von Automaten und Computern, 1769- 1962 [Visionary Informatics: Notes on the Exhibitions of Automata and Computers, 1769- 1962].” Jahrbuch Für Historische Bildungsforschung, 2015, 177–98. “In Memoriam: Friedrich A. Kittler, 1943-2011.” Critical Inquiry 41, no. 2 (Winter 2015): 484–88. “Cybernetics” (with Benjamin Peters). In The Johns Hopkins Guide to the Digital Humanities, edited by Lori Emerson, Benjamin Robertson, and Ryan Marie-Laure, 109–12. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014. “After Kittler: On the Cultural Techniques of Recent German Media Theory.” Theory, Culture & Society 30, no. 6 (November 2013): 66–82. “Catching up with Simondon” (with Mark Hayward). SubStance 41, no. 3 (2012): 3–15. “La Cybernétique « américaine » au sein du Structuralisme « français » [The American Cybernetics within ‘French’ Structuralism].” La Revue d’Anthropologie Des Connaissances 6, no. 3 (2012): 335–51. “From Information Theory to French Theory: Jakobson, Lévi-Strauss, and the Cybernetic Apparatus.” Critical Inquiry 38, no. 1 (2011): 96–126. “Agents of History: Autonomous Agents and Crypto-Intelligence.” Interaction Studies 9, no. 3 (2008): 403–14. “The Historiographic Conception of Information: A Critical Survey.” The IEEE Annals on the History of Computing 30, no. 1 (2008): 66–81. Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan (CV) · February 2017 · Page 3 / 10 Encyclopedia Entries and Brief Texts “The Dura-Europos Roman shields.” In Artwork as Screen, edited by Francesco Casetti, Keely Orgeman, Bernard Geoghegan and Karl Regina. New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery, 2016. “Claude Lévi-Strauss” (with Erhard Schüttpelz). In The International Encyclopedia of Communication Theory and Philosophy, edited by Klaus Bruhn Jensen, Jefferson D. Pooley, Robert T. Craig, and Eric W. Rothenbuhler. Hoboken: Wiley-Blackwell, 2016. “Cybernetics” (with Benjamin Peters). In The International Encyclopedia of Communication Theory and Philosophy, edited by Klaus Bruhn Jensen, Jefferson D. Pooley, Robert T. Craig, and Eric W. Rothenbuhler. Hoboken: Wiley-Blackwell, 2016. White Papers “The Technosphere: Signal/Noise Ratios” (with Katrin Klingan and Christoph Rosol). Berlin: Haus der Kulturen der Welt, 2015. “Brand America and the New Model of Leadership” (with Marc Gobé). New York: d/g*, 2005. Book Reviews “Toward Liberal Histories of Computing: Fred Turner, The Democratic Surround.” Technology and Culture 56, no. 3 (July 2015): 745–48. “Untimely Mediations: On Two Recent Contributions to ‘German Media Theory.’” Paragraph 37, no. 3 (2014): 419–25. Translations Kittler, Friedrich. “Farewell to Sophienstraße.” Translated by Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan and Christian Kassung. Critical Inquiry 42, no. 2 (Summer 2016): 959- 62. Stiegler, Bernard. “The Tongue of the Eye: What ‘Art History’ Means.” In Releasing the Image: From Literature to New Media, edited by Jacques Khalip and Robert Mitchell, translated by Thangam Ravindranathan with Bernard Geoghegan, 222–35. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2011. Popular Work “Wie der Code in die Welt Kam. Eine Spurensuche.” Interview and commentary for Kulturwelle Radio, September 2015. “On Kulturtechniken.” Interview and commentary for Oklahoma Public Radio, April 2012. Edited Collections Bateson Dossier. Special Dossier of Grey Room 66 (Winter 2017). The Spirit of Media. Special Dossier of Critical Inquiry 42, no. 4 (Summer 2016). Friedrich Kittler. Special Dossier of Critical Inquiry 42, no. 4 (Summer 2016). Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan (CV) · February 2017 · Page 4 / 10 Occult Communications: Instrumentation, Esotericism, and Epistemology in the Nineteenth- Century. Special Issue of Communication +1 14, no. 1 (2015). http://scholarworks.umass.edu/cpo/ On Gilbert Simondon: Individuation and Technics. Special Issue of SubStance 41, no. 3 (2012). Co-edited with Mark Hayward. Curation 1948 (with Katrin Klingan and Nicholas Hood). Berlin: Haus der Kulturen der Welt, 2017. Artwork as Screen (with Francesco Casetti, Keely Orgeman, and Regina Karl). Yale University Art Gallery, 2016. The Technosphere: Signal-Noise Ratios (with Katrin Klingan and Christoph Rosol). Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, 2015-2018. Audio-Visual Media 2012- “Cultural Technologies: Dialogues on Media, Art and Science.” Online at www.cultural-technologies.com. Podcast. Host, producer, editor. 2007 “La Modernité sans la Modernisation.” Digital video