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Arts Division
History of Art/Visual Culture
Associate Professor
Faculty
Porter College Academic
D-207
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Kyle Parry's first book, A Theory of Assembly: From Museums to Memes, argues for the power and pervasiveness of a transmedia cultural form called assembly. Published with University of Minnesota Press, A Theory of Assembly has been reviewed in Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, Film Quarterly, Visual Studies, International Journal of Commuincation, Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft, and FOCUS: Papers in English Literary and Cultural Studies. Parry is the coeditor of Ubiquity: Photography's Multitudes, a book of new essays on the history and theory (and critique) of photographic ubiquity. He recently published an essay called "Metadata Is Not Data About Data," and he is completing a book called Ways of Seeing After Dark. His research has been published in Critical Inquiry, Debates in the Digital Humanities, and Archive Journal.
art, digital media, and visual culture; data, technology, and environment; critical theory; history and theory of photography
HAVC 49: From Memes to Metadata: An Introduction to Digital Visual Culture
HAVC 141H: Media History and Theory
HAVC 141L: Museums in the Internet Era
HAVC 141N: Data Cultures: Art, Technology, and Politics of Visual Representation
HAVC 141P: Networks and Natures: Art, Technology, and the Nonhuman
HAVC 191P: Light, Darkness, and Illumination (Topics in Contemporary Art and Visual Culture)
HAVC 191W: Art, Disaster, and Resilience
HAVC 249: How to Do Things with Pictures: Media, Culture, and Performance
Outstanding Teacher Award, Arts Division, UC Santa Cruz (2017)
Books
Ways of Seeing After Dark (University of Minnesota Press, under contract)
A Theory of Assembly: From Museums to Memes (University of Minnesota Press, 2023)
Collections
Ubiquity: Photography’s Multitudes (co-editor Jacob W. Lewis, Leuven University Press, 2021)
Articles / Chapters
"Metadata Is Not Data About Data" (in Decolonizing Data, 2023)
"Dispersal and Denial: Photographic Ubiquity and the Microbial Analogy" (in Ubiquity: Photography's Multitudes, 2021)
"How Selfies Think: The Cognitive Dimensions of Digital Photography" (in Visual Culture Approaches to the Selfie, 2021)
"Reading for Enactment: A Performative Approach to Digital Scholarship and Data Visualization" (Debates in the Digital Humanities 2019)
"Generative Assembly after Katrina" Critical Inquiry (Spring 2018)
"As We May Now Think: A Note on Vannevar Bush’s Scaffolding Claim" Archive Journal (November 2016)
Reviews
Assembly, Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri in Critical Inquiry (2018)
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