Contributors

Marié Abe is an ethnomusicologist, accordionist, composer, and improviser. She completed her Ph.D. in ethnomusicology at the University of California, Berkeley, and is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies at Harvard University. Her most recent work focuses on sound, spatiality and empathy in public spaces in contemporary Japan. She is also co-producer of an NPR radio documentary, “Squeezebox Stories,” airing in summer 2011.

Ximena Alarcón is a UK-based Colombian new media artist who focuses on listening to social context related sound, connecting it to individual and collective memories. She nourishes her practice with ethnography, looks for expression in voice and body, and uses networking technologies to interconnect different locations and perspectives of life. She completed her PhD in Music, Technology and Innovation at De Montfort University and was awarded with The Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship 2007-2009 to develop “Sounding Underground” at De Montfort’s Institute of Creative Technologies (IOCT). She is an Associate Researcher at the IOCT, and currently studies Deep Listening practice developing an art-healing project called Networking Migrations.

Emilie Allen is completing an MA, Media Studies at Concordia University in Montréal, Québec. She also holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia. Her interests involve fiction, feminist thought, intermedia, and experiments in documentary and cross-genre collaboration. Her current work blurs the boundaries between ethnography and art; “Hetaira & Héloïse” is an artist’s book of linked stories and video shorts exploring female bodies and identities in sex work.

Jeremy Blatter is a PhD candidate in the History of Science with a secondary field in Film and Visual Studies at Harvard University. Jeremy’s research focuses on the history of psychotechnics and applied psychology in Europe and America from the late nineteenth through the mid twentieth century. As Student Curator for Harvard’s Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments Jeremy will be co-curating this fall (2011) the exhibition “Cold War in the Classroom: The Material Culture of Mid-Century Science Education.”

Luís Filipe Brandão is a software engineer specialized in machine learning. He is currently based in Amsterdam where he is concluding his MSc. in Artificial Intelligence. Over the past four years, he has worked as a programmer for Textkernel and Berkman Center at Harvard through the Google Summer of Code program, among others, as well as developed an interactive installation for Mediamatic, a media arts institute in Amsterdam. More at www.luisbrandao.info

James Burns is Founder and Relational Knowledge Fellow at metaLAB(at)Harvard. Currently, he is focused upon developing Zeega into an enterprise publishing platform that allows scholars, journalists, artists and ordinary citizens to easily create sophisticated interactive projects through participatory media, algorithmically curate and visualize large-scale media and data collections, and a suite of parametric authoring tools.

Philip Cartelli is currently an anthropology PhD student at Harvard University. His first video, The Cajun New Wave, premiered at the 2009 New Orleans Human Rights Film Festival. His writing has appeared in Witness, Film International, Radical Teacher, and Afropop.org. More at www.pcartelli.com

Lucien Castaing-Taylor is the Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Director of the Sensory Ethnography Lab, Director of the Film Study Center and Co-Director of Graduate Studies, Critical Media Practice. His work includes the films Hell Roaring Creek (2010) and (with Ilisa Barbash) Sweetgrass (2009) and In and Out of Africa (1992). His work has screened at the AFI, Berlin, Locarno, New York, and Toronto film festivals, been exhibited at the Berlin Kunsthalle, Mariane Goodman Gallery, X-Initiative, and elsewhere, and is in the permanent collection of MoMA and the British Museum. Written publications include Visualizing Theory (ed., 1994) and Transcultural Cinema (ed., 1998). He was the founding editor of the American Anthropological Association’s Visual Anthropology Review(1991–94).

Aryo Danusiri is an award-winning filmmaker, activist and anthropologist. His documentary films include Village Goat Takes The Beating (1999), The Poet of Linge Homeland (Penyair Negeri Linge) (2000), Abracadabra! (2003), Lukas’ Moment (2005), Playing Between Elephants (2007), and On Broadway (2010). His work has screened at Royal Anthro-pological Institute Film Festival, Margaret Mead Film Festival as well as festivals in Singapore, Brisbane, Taiwan and Rotterdam. Danusiri is the executive director of Ragam Media Network. He holds a masters degree in visual cultural studies from Tromso University (2005) and is currently a PhD candidate in Anthropology (with Media) at Harvard University.

Chinnie Ding is a doctoral candidate in English at Harvard. Her main research interests include poetry, Asia, cinema, and the arts. Based in New York, she teaches courses on labor and sensory studies at NYU Gallatin, and is an occasional contributor to Artforumonline.

Peter Doolan is an independent researcher of Thai music. Through several stays in Thailand, he has tried to learn all he can about the country’s many styles of music. He has been sharing his collection of Thai cassettes and knowledge of the music’s history at his blog Mon Rak Pleng Thai since 2008. He currently live in Brooklyn, New York.

Alex Fattal is a Ph.D. Candidate in Social Anthropology at Harvard University. His dissertation “Guerrilla Marketing: Information War and the Demobilization of the FARC” explores the conjugation of counterinsurgency, marketing, and humanitarianism in the Program for Humanitarian Attention to the Demobilized within the Colombian Ministry of Defense. Alex has produced experimental ethnographic videos, founded participatory photography projects and studied the role of photography in the South African liberation struggle. Between 2009 and 2011, Alex put his academic work aside to lead an international campaign to free his brother from arbitrary detention in Iran.

Steven Feld is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Music at the University of New Mexico. His research concerns the anthropology of sound and senses, at ethnographic sites in Papua New Guinea, Europe, Japan, Ghana, and Togo. His books include: Sound and Sentiment (1982/1990), Senses of Place (with Keith Basso, 1996) and Jean Rouch: Ciné-Ethnography (editor/transl., 2003). As a musician, composer, and phonographer he has produced many CDs and radio programs. His most recent project, on jazz cosmopolitanism in Accra, Ghana, is published in DVDs, CDs, and a forthcoming book. He has received fellowships from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation (1991), and John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (2003-4). His media arts label VoxLox publishes art/anthropology in all media; www.voxlox.net.

Elizabeth Fitzgerald is an observer of Thai politics and history concerned with the ways in which law, rather than protecting citizens, becomes the method by which they are dispossessed of rights.

Peter Galison is the Joseph Pellegrino University Professor and the director of the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments at Harvard University. Galison’s work explores the complex interaction among the three principal subcultures of twentieth- and twenty-first-century physics: experimentation, instrumentation, and theory. His publications include How Experiments End (1987), Image and Logic: A Material Culture of Microphysics (1997), Einstein’s Clocks, Poincaré’s Maps: Empires of Time (2003), and, with Lorraine Daston, Objectivity (2007). Galison has also collaboratively produced documentary films including Ultimate Weapon: The H-bomb Dilemma (2000, with Pamela Hogan) and Secrecy(2008, with Robb Moss). He has been named a MacArthur Fellow (1997), a Guggenheim Fellow (2009) and in 1999, he won a Max Planck Research Award.

Ben Gaydos is a designer, filmmaker, artist and educator. He has filmed sadhus in Nepal and fisherman in India, worked as a designer in Germany and the UK, collaborated with blues musicians in Virginia and electronic artists in Detroit. His experiments in design, sound, film and video have been exhibited internationally. Ben has conducted research in design and anthropology at Virginia Commonwealth University, where he received his MFA in Visual Communication/Design. He is co-founder of goodgood, a Boston-based interdisciplinary design firm, and is currently teaching design at the Art Institute of Boston. See more of his work at goodgoodland.com and 3toed.com.

Rebecca Dowd Geoffroy is a Ph.D. student in musicology at Duke University. She performs in Duke’s Collegium Musicum and the Duke New Music Ensemble [dnme]. Her current research focuses on music and politics during the French Revolution.

Nicholaus Gutierrez is a Master’s Candidate at NYU, with a focus on literary theory and continental philosophy. He is also a contributing deputy editor for the NYU student publication Anamesa.

Tyrell Haberkorn is a scholar activist based in the Department of Political and Social Change at the Australian National University. She is the author of Revolution Interrupted: Farmers, Students, Law, and Violence in Northern Thailand (University of Wisconsin Press, 2011) and is now working on a history of impunity for state violence in Thailand since 1932.

K. Michael Hays is Eliot Noyes Professor of Architectural Theory at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and Co-Director of Doctoral Programs. In 2000 he was appointed the first Adjunct Curator of Architecture at the Whitney Museum of American Art, a position he held until 2009. Hays was the founder and editor of renowned scholarly journal Assemblage, which was a leading forum of cultural and architectural theory in North America and Europe from 1985-2001, publishing work by figures such as Jacques Derrida, Peter Eisenmann, Andreas Huyssen, Slavoj Zizek, and others.

Stefan Helmreich is Professor of Anthropology at MIT, where he teaches classes on sound studies, the history of computing, and the scientific making and unmaking of categories of race, gender, and sexuality. He is the author of Alien Ocean: Anthropological Voyages in Microbial Seas (California, 2009).

Jen Heuson is a scholar and media artist currently pursuing her Ph.D. in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University. Her work critically engages the mediated production, consumption, and circulation of knowledge, sentiment, memory, identity, and culture during travel. Specifically, she investigates the role of sound in the tourist experience, exploring how what is heard shapes who we are as individuals, as communities, as nations. Jen holds an MA in Film Studies and an MA in Philosophy from the University of Amsterdam. For more about Jen and her collaborative film and audio work, visit www.smallgauge.org

Tim Ingold is the Chair in Social Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen. His research interests include: ecological approaches in anthropology and psychology; comparative anthropology of hunter-gatherer and pastoral societies; human-animal relations; relations between biological, psychological and anthropological approaches to culture and social life; environmental perception; language, technology and skilled practice; anthropology, archaeology, art and architecture; and the anthropology of lines and line-making. His many publications include Lines: a brief history (2007), The perception of the environment: essays on livelihood, dwelling and skill (2000), and The appropriation of nature: essays on human ecology and social relations (1986).

Heidi Jackson was born in Sierra Leone and is an artist and teacher who lives and works in Sydney, Australia. Her work examines absence, memory and the quietness of natural space and these themes are predominantly explored through depictions of the New Zealand landscape where she spent her childhood. Although trained as a printmaker and graphic artist, she now works in small palm sized paintings. She is the Mother of 2 small children and is currently teaching Visual Arts at Sydney Girls Grammar School.

Michael D. Jackson is a Distinguished Visiting Professor of World Religions at Harvard Divinity School and an award-winning author. His work has been strongly influenced by critical theory, American pragmatism, and existential-phenomenological thought. He has conducted ethnographic research in Sierra Leone and Aboriginal Australia and is the author of numerous books including: Paths Toward a Clearing (1989), Minima Ethnographica (1998), At Home in the World (2000), The Palm at the End of the Mind: Relatedness, Religiosity, and the Real (2010), and Life Within Limits: Wellbeing in a World of Want (2011). He has also published three novels, a memoir, and six books of poetry.

Ernst Karel is Lecturer on Anthropology, Assistant Director of the Film Study Center, and Lab Manager for the Sensory Ethnography Lab at Harvard University. A musician, sound recordist, composer, and anthropologist of sound, his two newest CD releases, on the Gruenrekorder and and/OAR record labels, are constructed with unmanipulated location recordings, and edited as imageless observational cinema. Other recent sound work based on location recordings makes use of four-, five-, and eight-channel recording and exhibition formats. He also performs and records improvised experimental electronic and electroacoustic music using modular analog electronics; current collaborations include the electroacoustic duo project EKG with Kyle Bruckmann, and the New England Phonographers Union. In addition to his own work, he also does sound editing, mixing, and sound design for nonfiction and experimental film and video.

Nicole Labruto is a PhD candidate in the History, Anthropology, Science, Technology and Society program at MIT. Her research examines sustainability in the context of waste-to-energy technologies in Brazil. She is also interested in the phenomenology of waste.

Lan Angela Li is a filmmaker, occasional musician, and graduate student in the History, Anthropology, Science and Technology Studies department at MIT. She has worked on projects ranging from documentaries to promotional videos, bringing her in collaboration with the Institute for International Education as well as the Columbia University Department of Neuropsychiatry. She is a Paul & Daisy Soros Fellow as well as an NSF Graduate Fellow. Lan’s inspirations as a scholar and artist are largely influenced by her father, an ethnomusicologist, and mother, a music educator and erhu soloist.

Sara Maestro is currently living in Milan, Italy, where she works as a producer. Sara received her MA in Visual Anthropology from the University of Manchester (2004) and has worked as an organizer for film festivals in Italy for several years.

Jared McCormick is a PhD Candidate in Social Anthropology at Harvard University. His work focuses on mobility and imagination in the landscape of Beirut, Lebanon. At the juncture of Migration and Tourism Studies he is interested in conceptions of masculinity, subjectivity and the creation of space. Recently, he has become interested in GIS and the possibilities of social anthropology and geospatial technologies.

Peter McMurray is a composer and graduate student in ethnomusicology. His research interests lie in between composition, sound design, and more traditional modes of ethnography, with special emphasis on sound and space. His dissertation focuses on the concept of “gurbet” (exile, displacement from home) in the musical diaspora of Turkey.

Luke Moody works for BRITDOC Foundation in London, UK, a documentary funding body. He also makes films: see cargocollective.com/try. After completing studies in fine art then Anthropology and Media at Goldsmiths, he participated in the Sound Image Culture (SIC) expanded ethnography programme in Brussels. He was also FAO of ISEFF International Student Ethnographic film festival and runs, literally runs http://itsgotlegs.tumblr.com.

Darren Mueller is currently a PhD student in the music department at Duke University, where he researches and writes about jazz, recording technology, and musical performance. His work as a writer and researcher includes contributions to the Duke Performances blog, The Thread, and to the Nesuhi Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame, housed at Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City.

John Condon Murray is Associate Professor of English literature and co-chair of the Humanities Department at Curry College. His scholarly and pedagogical interests focus on 19th- and 20th-century British literature, the history of the novel, narrative theory, film and visual culture, and literary and critical theory. He received his bachelors, masters, and doctoral degrees from the Catholic University of America (Washington, DC), Harvard University, and the University of Rhode Island, respectively. He is the author of Technologies of Power in the Victorian Period: Print Culture, Human Labor, and New Modes of Critique in Charles Dickens’s Hard Times, Charlotte Brontë’s Shirley, and George Eliot’s Felix Holt (Cambria Press, 2010).

Anh-Thu Ngo is a Ph.D. candidate in Social Anthropology with a secondary focus on Film & Visual Studies at Harvard University. Currently, she is preparing a participatory media ethnography of urban development in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Her critical interests include ideas on affect, aesthetics, belonging, memory, the senses, and knowledge production. She has created short videos, costumes for stage, paintings and poetry and is most recently engaging in curatorial projects. Her poetry will appear in the forthcoming anthology, Southeast Asian Women in the Diaspora: Troubling Borders in Literature and Art.

Kara Oehler is Co-Founder/Documentary Arts + Media Innovation Fellow at metaLAB (at) Harvard. She is a radio documentary producer and media artist whose work over the past decade has focused upon pushing the boundaries of narrative journalism both on the air and across multiple platforms, combining investigative storytelling with participatory media, building new systems and opportunities for education and artistic practice. Kara is the creator of multiple transmedia projects on which she has pioneered new forms of interactive experience, including the collaborative documentary Mapping Main Street; Capitol of Punk, featured in MoMA’s Design and the Elastic Mind exhibition; Zeega; and the UnionDocs Collaborative. More at www.karaoehler.net

Juan Orrantia (b. Bogota, Colombia), works on nonfiction projects that explore the evocative and critical possibilities of photography and multimedia. With a background in anthropology and documentary studies, his series address questions of memory, violence, intimacy, (dis)location and the everyday. See Juan’s work here.

Heather Paxson is Associate Professor in Anthropology at MIT, where she teaches classes on food and culture, craft practice, gender and family, and ethnographic research. She is the author of Making Modern Mothers: Ethics and Family Planning in Urban Greece (2004) and The Life of Cheese: Crafting Food and Value in America, due to be published November 2012 with University of California Press.

Joana Pimenta is a media researcher and artist, working with video, digital media and installation art. She is a PhD student in Film and Visual Studies and Critical Media Practice at Harvard, and works at the metaLAB. Her research focuses on cinematic objects, installation and systems art. She has previously studied and held research positions in Lisbon, Paris and Amsterdam, as well as directed short films and worked in film production, digital media and curation projects.

William Rankin Assistant Professor of History of Science at Yale, has amassed hundreds of maps over the course of his research on the history of cartography. He is currently writing a book on the history of the mapping sciences, sovereignty, and U.S. military globalism in the decades surrounding World War II, tentatively titled After the Map: Cartography, Navigation, and the Transformation of Territory in the Twentieth Century. He also publishes maps of his own and maintains a website about mapping: www.radicalcartography.net

Craig J. Reynolds is a historian of Southeast Asia. Recent publications include “Rural Male Leadership, Religion and the Environment in Thailand’s Mid-South, 1920s-1960s,” Journal of Southeast Asian Studies (Feb. 2011) and “The Social Bases of Autocratic Rule in Thailand” in Bangkok May 2010: Perspectives on a Divided Thailand (Singapore 2012). He reviews English and Thai books online at New Mandala. See more of his work here.

Didem Sarikaya is a Ph.D. candidate in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University. Her research focuses on understanding how the organs become bigger or smaller during evolution. Outside of the laboratory environment, she is interested in the intersection of visual arts and science.

Nitin Sawhney is a Research Fellow and Lecturer with the MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology and the Center for Future Civic Media. His ongoing research, teaching and creative practice (documentary film) engages the critical role of arts interventions in contested spaces and participatory media with marginalized communities. Nitin completed his doctoral work at the MIT Media Lab where he conducted research on networked collaboration for sustainable product design, as well as mobile, wearable and responsive media interfaces in everyday workplace and urban settings.

Tom Schilling has worked as an industrial chemist in Boston and metallurgist in Los Angeles, developed nanostructured plastic solar cells at the Lawrence Berkeley National Labs, and collaborated with the editors of Scientiae Studia through the Institute for Advanced Studies at the Universidade de São Paulo. He is currently working with visual media in geological exploration and mine planning as a PhD student in the History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology and Society program at MIT.

Jeffrey T. Schnapp Before moving to Harvard in 2011, Jeffrey T. Schnapp occupied the Pierotti Chair of Italian Studies at Stanford, where he founded the Stanford Humanities Lab in 2000. A cultural historian with research interests extending from antiquity to the present, his most recent books are Speed Limits (Skira, 2009) and The Electric Information Age Book (Princeton Architectural Press, 2011). His Trento Tunnels project — a 6000 sq. meter pair of highway tunnels in Northern Italy repurposed as a history museum– was featured in the Italian pavilion of the 2010 Venice Biennale.

Max Seawright is a Teaching Fellow and PhD Candidate in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University. Max researches dwelling, space, illustration and visual adaptation, primarily in the context of twentieth century Brazilian literature.

Stacey Sewell is a PhD candidate at University College Falmouth, UK. Her research interests include contemporary music and the body, listening practices, performance documentation and writing about sound. Stacey’s work has appeared in Performance Research, Radical Musicology, and Body, Space & Technology. See more at her website and blogs.

Jeff Daniel Silva is an artist, teacher and curator based in Boston. Over the past ten years he has developed a diverse body of work from multi-channel installations to short films and experimental documentaries that have screened internationally at festivals and in galleries. He holds an MFA in Visual Art from Vermont College of Fine Arts in Montpelier and currently teaches at The School of the Museum of Fine Arts in experimental, documentary and ethnographic film studies and production. He is the co-founder and co-curator of the acclaimed Balagan Experimental Film Series at the Coolidge Corner Theatre. His most recent film, Ivan & Ivana (2011) premiered at Visions du Reel. More at www.jeffdanielsilva.com

Jesse Shapins is on the faculty of architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and is Co-Founder/Associate Director of metaLAB (at) Harvard. He is a media artist, theorist and social entrepreneur whose work has been featured in The New York Times, Metropolis, PRAXIS and Wired, and been exhibited at MoMA, Deutsches Architektur Zentrum and the Carpenter Center for Visual Arts, among other venues. Over the past decade, he has developed a hybrid practice of interactive design, public intervention, architectural theory, and experimental pedagogy focused upon mapping the perception of place between physical, virtual and social space. More at www.jesseshapins.net

Mary Margaret Steedly is Professor of Anthropology at Harvard University. She has conducted fieldwork among the Karo Bataks of the North Sumatran uplands. Her first book, Hanging without a Rope: Narrative Experience in Colonial and Postcolonial Karoland (1993) received the Victor Turner Prize for Ethnographic Writing (1994). Supported by a grant from the John C. and Katherine T. MacArthur Foundation, she has recently turned her focus to the construction and inculcation of a particular “military culture” of soldier-citizens at The Citadel Military College. She has recently completed two books, one a history of Karo participation in the Indonesian independence struggle, and the other an edited volume, Images That Move, which explores the relations among technologies of image production and circulation, the nature and intensity of the circulating image, and the generation of publics and counter-publics.

Karen Stein is a designer, writer and educator, with 10 years experience in Boston design firms before co-founding goodgood. She received her MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University where her research focused on the concepts of imagination and experience. Karen’s earlier studies at Boston College concentrated on aesthetics and politics. She teaches at Tufts, the Museum School and UMass-Dartmouth. See more of her work at goodgoodland.com and www.karenstein.org.

Benjamin Tausig is a PhD Candidate in ethnomusicology at New York University. He conducted fieldwork on sound and public space in Bangkok during the 2010-11 protests while on a Fulbright Scholarship, and is currently writing his dissertation while on a Mellon Fellowship.

Christos Varvantakis is an anthropologist, writing his PhD Thesis at Freie Universität of Berlin. Before that he was trained as a visual anthropologist at Goldsmiths in London and shot several ethnographic films. He has published on memory and historical narratives, on death rituals and transformation as well as on the history of ethnographic film. At present he tries to make sense of the aesthetics of ethnographic photography and to understand the alchemical processes of super 8 film.

Elizabeth Anne Watkins is an artist and researcher working to expand visual projections of temporal being. Her practice engages a wide range of disciplines, finding points of convergence between historiography, neuropsychiatry, quantum mechanics, architecture, drawing, and time-based media. She is currently working towards a Master of Science in Art, Culture and Technology at the MIT School of Architecture and Planning. She’s been the recipient of numerous awards, including a University of California at Irvine Research Fellowship and an MIT Department of Architecture Graduate Fellowship. For more information, please visit elizabethannewatkins.com.

Matthew White is a designer and educator. He holds a BFA in Graphic Design from the Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University and is the co-founder of Dirk+Weiss, a Boston based interactive design firm. Matthew is pursuing his Masters of Education from the University of Massachusetts, Boston, in Instructional Design. He is teaching design and mobile development at the Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University and Bunker Hill Community College.

Ned Whitman is an undergraduate at Harvard College, concentrating in Human Evolutionary Biology and Social Anthropology with a Secondary Field in Visual and Environmental Studies. He is interested in the evolution of the human brain, the neurophysiology of visual perception, art as experience in everyday life, and global interconnectivity.

Gavin Williams comes from the valleys of south Wales and has studied music at Oxford and London. He is currently writing a dissertation at Harvard on the politics of sound media in early twentieth-century Italy, in the realms of futurism, opera, and, lately, Deaf studies.

Julia Yezbick is a filmmaker, artist and cultural anthropologist with an interest in media practice, space, the senses, and processes of making. Her works have been screened at international film festivals including the Mostra Internacional do Filme Etnográfico, Rio de Janeiro, the Nordic Anthropological Film Association, Stockholm, and the Montreal Ethnographic Film Festival. Julia completed an MA in Visual Anthropology at the University of Manchester (2004) and has taught anthropology at Virginia Commonwealth University. She is currently a Teaching Fellow at Harvard University where she is working on a PhD in Anthropology (with Media).

Emily Zeamer is a Social Anthropologist (PhD Harvard 2008) interested in how private religion – defined as a sense of the spiritual and moral in the everyday world – is woven into modern life. Her current ethnographic research in contemporary Bangkok, Thailand, looks specifically at how aspects of religious tradition inform the ways that Buddhist Thais imagine and use modern techniques and technologies in their everyday lives. Emily is also working to complete a series of short films which explore material sensory dimensions of urban life in the modern megacity of Bangkok, including human encounters with the built landscape, traffic, and trash.