Douglas Kahn
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Douglas Kahn is the founding director of the Program in Technocultural Studies. He writes on the history and theory of sound in the arts, experimental music, and the arts and technology, from the late-19th Century to the present day. Books include Noise, Water, Meat: A History of Sound in the Arts (MIT Press, 1999) and Wireless Imagination: Sound, Radio and the Avant-garde (MIT Press, 1992), which he co-edited. He is an editor of the journal Senses and Society (Berg Publishers), the Leonardo Music Journal, and the book series Technoculture and the Arts from University of California Press. He has a PhD in Art History from University of Western Sydney, an MFA in post-studio art from Cal Arts, and an MA in music composition from Wesleyan University, where he studied with Alvin Lucier and Ron Kuivila. Before coming to UC-Davis, he taught at in the Department of Media Arts and Production at University Technology, Sydney, in Australia. He is the recipient of a 2006 Guggenheim Fellowship and is currently researching the artistic, musical and cultural negotiations between acoustics and electromagnetism from the late-19th Cenutry to the present. |