Douglas Kahn

Douglas Kahn is Professor of Media and Innovation at the National Institute of Experimental Arts (NIEA), University of New South Wales, Sydney.

Historian and theorist of the media arts and experimental music with concentrations in the study of sound, electromagnetism, and natural media.

Author of Earth Sound Earth Signal: Energies and Earth Magnitude in the Arts (University of California Press, 2013) and Noise, Water, Meat: A History of Sound in the Arts (MIT Press, 1999).

He is the recipient of an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship, an Arts Writers Grant from Creative Capital and Warhol Foundation, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. (2020)

Publications

• editor, with Gregory Whitehead, Wireless Imagination: Sound, Radio and the Avant-garde, MIT Press, 1992, xi+452 pp.
• Noise, Water, Meat: A History of Sound in the Arts, MIT Press, 1999, 455 pp.
• editor, with Larry Austin, Source: Music of the Avant-garde, 1966-1973, University of California Press, 2011. [1]
• The Aelectrosonic, Amsterdam: Sonic Acts, 2011, 64 pp.
• editor, with Hannah B. Higgins, Mainframe Experimentalism: Early Computing and the Foundations of the Digital Arts, University of California Press, 2012, xiv+362 pp.
• Earth Sound Earth Signal: Energies and Earth Magnitude in the Arts, University of California Press, 2013, 343 pp. [2]
• editor, Energies in the Arts, MIT Press, 2019, 480 pp. [3]

Links

• Personal website (archived)
• Wikipedia