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“Processing Pleasure” — Patrick Keilty at Digital Aesthetics Workshop, Feb. 3, 2026
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…
“Processing Pleasure” — Patrick Keilty at Digital Aesthetics Workshop, Feb. 3, 2026
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 — Images and remarks from the exhibition opening, January 22, 2026
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…
EXTRA/PHENOMENALITIES — Images and remarks from the exhibition opening, January 22, 2026
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).
EXTRA/PHENOMENALITIES — Images and remarks from the exhibition opening, January 22, 2026
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…
EXTRA/PHENOMENALITIES — Images and remarks from the exhibition opening, January 22, 2026
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).
Methods Cafe: “Race, Repetition, and Seriality in Games and Contemporary Media” — Austin Anderson and Shane Denson in Conversation, Feb. 11, 2026
"Race, Repetition, and Seriality in Games and Contemporary Media." Videogames and race have intermingled since the earliest days of the medium, yet game…
Methods Cafe: “Race, Repetition, and Seriality in Games and Contemporary Media” — Austin Anderson and Shane Denson in Conversation, Feb. 11, 2026
"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?
InterPlay Salon at Cantor Arts Center, Feb 5, 2026
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…
InterPlay Salon at Cantor Arts Center, Feb 5, 2026
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/PHENOMENALITIES — Stanford Art Gallery — Opening Jan. 22, 2026
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…
EXTRA/PHENOMENALITIES — Stanford Art Gallery — Opening Jan. 22, 2026
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.
EXTRA/PHENOMENALITIES — Stanford Art Gallery — Opening Jan. 22, 2026
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…
EXTRA/PHENOMENALITIES — Stanford Art Gallery — Opening Jan. 22, 2026
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.
“The Latent Space of Meaning and the Novel” — Hannes Bajohr at Digital Aesthetics Workshop, Jan. 13, 2026
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…
“The Latent Space of Meaning and the Novel” — Hannes Bajohr at Digital Aesthetics Workshop, Jan. 13, 2026
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!
*'Designed for Masochists: Spectacles of Electrotactile Endurance--another thing on the OWO, this time looking at the way vloggers help make the device & its sensations intelligible through gameplay videos. Part of a book on "Endurance Media" w/Neta Alexander, Shane Denson & Rachel Plotnick.
Our book club is changing! Each month, we’ll be sharing reading lists curated around a specific subject... November's: Frankenstein!
Read the full list - containing 30 books:
holpublishing.com/grimreader!
#frankenstein #readinglist #horror #nonfiction #books #maryshelley #art #sciencefiction2. Ten Statements on Technics
André Brock, Dominique Chateau, Beth Coleman, Shane
Denson, Amanda Egbe, Yuriko Furuhata, Tom Gunning,
Jeffrey West Kirkwood, Laura Mulvey, and Jean-Christophe
Plantin
eprints.lse.ac.uk/130469/1/Ten...https://eprints.lse.ac.uk/130469/1/Ten_Statements_on_Technics_25_12_05_18_00_28.pdf
Norms in the Age of Intelligent Machines: Bodies, Knowledge, Governmentality — Dec. 4 & 5 at Stanford
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…
Norms in the Age of Intelligent Machines: Bodies, Knowledge, Governmentality — Dec. 4 & 5 at Stanford
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)
Norms in the Age of Intelligent Machines: Bodies, Knowledge, Governmentality — Dec. 4 & 5 at Stanford
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…
Norms in the Age of Intelligent Machines: Bodies, Knowledge, Governmentality — Dec. 4 & 5 at Stanford
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)
The book will be published by
@leverpress.bsky.social in print and Diamond Open Access as part of their new Film|Minutes series. The brilliant
@shanedenson.bsky.social wrote the first volume for the series on BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN, available here:
www.fulcrum.org/concern/mono...
Bride of Frankenstein
<i>Part of the <a href="https://www.leverpress.org/filmminutes/">film|minutes</a> series</i>. Reactivating the familiar classic for contemporary audiences The inaugural volume in the film|minutes book...
Next volume in the film|minutes series: @danhf.bsky.social on Texas Chain Saw Massacre!!!
Today I finished and filed my monograph on THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE, in which I break down the entire film into 60-second segments and discuss them one at a time. It's been a challenging but hugely rewarding book to write — and now it's finally done!!
Woah! An actually good and insightful review of my book on Amazon!
“The Bride of Frankenstein Minute-by-Minute” — Monday Night Seminar at the Coach House, Centre for Culture and Technology, Toronto, Nov. 10
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…
“The Bride of Frankenstein Minute-by-Minute” — Monday Night Seminar at the Coach House, Centre for Culture and Technology, Toronto, Nov. 10
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.
“Non/phenomenalities: A Hodological Laboratory for Unstable Times” — Artist Talk with Karin Denson at Western Film & Art Festival, London, Ontario, Nov. 9, 2025
On Nov. 9, 2025, Karin Denson and I will give an artist talk, titled "Non/phenomenalities: A Hodological Laboratory for Unstable Times,"…
“Non/phenomenalities: A Hodological Laboratory for Unstable Times” — Artist Talk with Karin Denson at Western Film & Art Festival, London, Ontario, Nov. 9, 2025
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 & 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.
“AI as Existential(ist) Risk and Aesthetic Opportunity” — Keynote at Media Theory Conference 2025 in Toronto, Nov. 7-8
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…
“AI as Existential(ist) Risk and Aesthetic Opportunity” — Keynote at Media Theory Conference 2025 in Toronto, Nov. 7-8
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…
Happy Halloween! My book on BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN--which is FREE for Kindle--is currently #1 in Movie & Video History & Criticism on Amazon!
👻 Happy Halloween!
What better time to discover the inaugural volume in Lever Press's film|minutes book series?:
'Bride of Frankenstein' by
@shanedenson.bsky.social dissects the 1935 classic through sound, technology, and time itself minute-by-minute.🎃 🍿
bit.ly/3JzEdPr
@leverpress.bsky.socialCelebrate Halloween at Gray Area with a screening of The Bride of Frankenstein and the launch of Shane Denson's (
@shanedenson.bsky.social) new book on the Bride of Frankenstein!
📅 October 30 | 6:30 PM
🎟Tix:
grayarea.org/event/bride-...“Making Politics: Commemoration, Resistance, and Play” — Joseph DeLappe at Digital Aesthetics Workshop, Oct. 22, 2025
With apologies for the late announcement, the Digital Aesthetics Workshop is delighted to welcome our first speaker of the 2025-26 academic year! Joseph DeLappe will present on…
“Making Politics: Commemoration, Resistance, and Play” — Joseph DeLappe at Digital Aesthetics Workshop, Oct. 22, 2025
With apologies for the late announcement, the Digital Aesthetics Workshop is delighted to welcome our first speaker of the 2025-26 academic year! Joseph DeLappe will present on "Making Politics: Commemoration, Resistance, and Play" on Wednesday, October 22, from 5-6:30pm PT. The event will take place in Wallenberg 433A, at the Stanford Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis (CESTA). Dinner will be served.
“Making Politics: Commemoration, Resistance, and Play” — Joseph DeLappe at Digital Aesthetics Workshop, Oct. 22, 2025
With apologies for the late announcement, the Digital Aesthetics Workshop is delighted to welcome our first speaker of the 2025-26 academic year! Joseph DeLappe will present on…
“Making Politics: Commemoration, Resistance, and Play” — Joseph DeLappe at Digital Aesthetics Workshop, Oct. 22, 2025
With apologies for the late announcement, the Digital Aesthetics Workshop is delighted to welcome our first speaker of the 2025-26 academic year! Joseph DeLappe will present on "Making Politics: Commemoration, Resistance, and Play" on Wednesday, October 22, from 5-6:30pm PT. The event will take place in Wallenberg 433A, at the Stanford Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis (CESTA). Dinner will be served.
Book Launch and Film Screening — Bride of Frankenstein at Gray Area, October 30, 2025
I'm excited to announce a book launch event for my new book on Bride of Frankenstein, followed by a screening of the 1935 film, on Oct. 30, 2025 at Gray Area in San Francisco! Doors open at 6:30pm, and the event…
Book Launch and Film Screening — Bride of Frankenstein at Gray Area, October 30, 2025
I'm excited to announce a book launch event for my new book on Bride of Frankenstein, followed by a screening of the 1935 film, on Oct. 30, 2025 at Gray Area in San Francisco! Doors open at 6:30pm, and the event starts at 7:00. I'll have copies of the book on hand and will be happy to sign them too! More info here!
Book Launch and Film Screening — Bride of Frankenstein at Gray Area, October 30, 2025
I'm excited to announce a book launch event for my new book on Bride of Frankenstein, followed by a screening of the 1935 film, on Oct. 30, 2025 at Gray Area in San Francisco! Doors open at 6:30pm, and the event…
Book Launch and Film Screening — Bride of Frankenstein at Gray Area, October 30, 2025
I'm excited to announce a book launch event for my new book on Bride of Frankenstein, followed by a screening of the 1935 film, on Oct. 30, 2025 at Gray Area in San Francisco! Doors open at 6:30pm, and the event starts at 7:00. I'll have copies of the book on hand and will be happy to sign them too! More info here!
Art & Artifice: Or, What AI Means for Aesthetics — John Fekete Distinguished Lecture, Trent University, November 6, 2025
Screenshot I am honored to be delivering this year's John Fekete Distinguished Lecture at Trent University. On November 6, 2025, I will speak about my current book project, Art…
Art & Artifice: Or, What AI Means for Aesthetics — John Fekete Distinguished Lecture, Trent University, November 6, 2025
Screenshot I am honored to be delivering this year's John Fekete Distinguished Lecture at Trent University. On November 6, 2025, I will speak about my current book project, Art & Artifice: Or, What AI Means for Aesthetics. Abstract: The rapid spread of generative AI tools has sparked urgent debates about ethics, governance, and even existential risk. These concerns are real, but they often miss a prior and constitutive dimension: the aesthetic.
The Future of Reality — UCLA/Hammer Museum, Oct 24-25, 2025
Screenshot I'm excited to be a part of this event on the Future of Reality at UCLA and the Hammer Museum October 24-25. More info here.
The Future of Reality — UCLA/Hammer Museum, Oct 24-25, 2025
Screenshot I'm excited to be a part of this event on the Future of Reality at UCLA and the Hammer Museum October 24-25. More info here.
Art & Artifice: Or, What AI Means for Aesthetics — John Fekete Distinguished Lecture, Trent University, November 6, 2025
Screenshot I am honored to be delivering this year's John Fekete Distinguished Lecture at Trent University. On November 6, 2025, I will speak about my current book project, Art…
Art & Artifice: Or, What AI Means for Aesthetics — John Fekete Distinguished Lecture, Trent University, November 6, 2025
Screenshot I am honored to be delivering this year's John Fekete Distinguished Lecture at Trent University. On November 6, 2025, I will speak about my current book project, Art & Artifice: Or, What AI Means for Aesthetics. Abstract: The rapid spread of generative AI tools has sparked urgent debates about ethics, governance, and even existential risk. These concerns are real, but they often miss a prior and constitutive dimension: the aesthetic.
The Future of Reality — UCLA/Hammer Museum, Oct 24-25, 2025
Screenshot I'm excited to be a part of this event on the Future of Reality at UCLA and the Hammer Museum October 24-25. More info here.
The Future of Reality — UCLA/Hammer Museum, Oct 24-25, 2025
Screenshot I'm excited to be a part of this event on the Future of Reality at UCLA and the Hammer Museum October 24-25. More info here.
Installation at GearBox Gallery, Oakland — opening Nov. 1!
I'm excited to announce that GlitchesAreLikeWildAnimals! -- BOVINE, part of a larger series of collaborations between me and Karin Denson, will be installed at GearBox Gallery in Oakland. The opening is Saturday, November 1 (1-4pm), and it…
Installation at GearBox Gallery, Oakland — opening Nov. 1!
I'm excited to announce that GlitchesAreLikeWildAnimals! -- BOVINE, part of a larger series of collaborations between me and Karin Denson, will be installed at GearBox Gallery in Oakland. The opening is Saturday, November 1 (1-4pm), and it will be on view through December 6 (with a closing event and artist talk starting at 2pm). The installation comprises a set of paintings and custom software that runs a real-time generative audiovisual experience. You can read more about the piece here. And here are a couple of installation shots from a recent show at 120710 Gallery in Berkeley:
Here are some shots from a recent installation at 120710 Gallery in Berkeley:
The film|minutes video|graphic workstation is a tool for reading AND writing minute-by-minute analyses of moving-image media. (Thread)
"Demo 1" demonstrates its function as a reader (with an excerpt of my BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN book). "Demo 2" shows how to use it for composition (the text window is a blank slate for writing notes about Thomas Edison's 1910 FRANKENSTEIN, which you'll see in the video window).
When you're ready to move beyond the demos and either write about (or take notes on) a film of your choosing, or read notes that someone else has composed about a film, click the "Load Video" button at the top.
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Get the film|minutes video|graphic workstation here:
purl.stanford.edu/xq320wq3449. And get the text pack (or a standalone app) for BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN here:
purl.stanford.edu/qj474bx8626 Check out the interactive version of my book -- apps for Mac and Windows (
doi.org/10.25740/qj4...) -- or grab a text pack and load it into the film|minutes video|graphic workstation (
doi.org/10.25740/xq3...)
Bride of Frankenstein [film|minutes] — Out now in print, open-access ebook, and special videographic/interactive editions!
My book on James Whale's 1935 masterpiece Bride of Frankenstein, the inaugural volume in Lever Press's new film|minutes book series, is out now! The book offers a…
Bride of Frankenstein [film|minutes] — Out now in print, open-access ebook, and special videographic/interactive editions!
My book on James Whale's 1935 masterpiece Bride of Frankenstein, the inaugural volume in Lever Press's new film|minutes book series, is out now! The book offers a minute-by-minute engagement with the film, combining close looking, philosophical speculation, historical contextualization, and a variety of other ekphrastic and experimental approaches. Print versions are available anywhere books are sold, including on the…
If you need a copy of the film to go along with this, there seems to be one currently on Vimeo:
vimeo.com/647112348
The Bride of Frankenstein (Universal Studios Classic Monster Collection)1935
This is "The Bride of Frankenstein (Universal Studios Classic Monster Collection)1935" by Robert McDowell on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and…
My book on Bride of Frankenstein is available for $0.00 -- yes, free -- for Kindle
There are also open-access -- yes, also free -- PDFs and EPUBs from the publisher!
But the paperbacks are beautiful and cheap -- no, not free -- but only $18.99
Bride of Frankenstein [film|minutes] — Out now in print, open-access ebook, and special videographic/interactive editions!
My book on James Whale's 1935 masterpiece Bride of Frankenstein, the inaugural volume in Lever Press's new film|minutes book series, is out now! The book offers a…
Bride of Frankenstein [film|minutes] — Out now in print, open-access ebook, and special videographic/interactive editions!
My book on James Whale's 1935 masterpiece Bride of Frankenstein, the inaugural volume in Lever Press's new film|minutes book series, is out now! The book offers a minute-by-minute engagement with the film, combining close looking, philosophical speculation, historical contextualization, and a variety of other ekphrastic and experimental approaches. Print versions are available anywhere books are sold, including on the…
Last up is our keynote presentation by Christina Agapakis, an extremely interdisciplinary synthetic biologist working to build more creative and human futures for biotechnology.
Can't make it in person? Join us virtually with a virtual pass:
https://grayareafestival.ioScholar, author, and professor Shane Denson
@shanedenson.bsky.social, is up now discussing the tension between technology’s drive toward perfection and the embodied realities of glitch, detour, and breakdown
Can't make it in person? Join us virtually with a virtual pass:
https://grayareafestival.ioToday (9/13 at 1pm), I'll be talking about "Bodies, Codes, and Hodological Space" at Gray Area Festival in SF!
Theorizing the installation work I've been doing with the non/phenomenal collective (Brett Amory, Karin Denson,
and me) as a "hodological laboratory" -- drawing on Sartre's theorization of non-Euclidean lived space.
