@jacobgaboury
Associate Professor of Film & Media, UC Berkeley (he/him) Media History | STS | Queer Theory | Digital Visual Culture Book: Image Objects: An Archaeology of Computer Graphics (2021) Now: Screenshot Histories & Queer Computing https://jacobgaboury.com
@melaniemitchell.bsky.social on Brian Cantwell Smith "The difference between reckoning and judgment...highlights the need for a textured map of intelligence’s kinds ... to explain why reckoning systems are so astonishingly powerful in some respects, yet fall so spectacularly short in others.”
Hey! At 1PM PST/4PM EST I'm playing a modular synth set focusing on house music and samples of home themes for the @romchip.bsky.social fundraiser!
Learn more at donate.romchip.org and watch the stream (live now) at www.twitch.tv/romchipjournal
We're starting our 3rd annual fundraiser momentarily -- join us!
www.twitch.tv/romchipjournal
CFP: Stanford-Leuphana Summer Academy on Humanities and Media 2026: Periodization
After a one-year hiatus, the Stanford-Leuphana Summer Academy on Humanities and Media is back! The theme for 2026 is Periodization, and we'll meet for the week of June 22-26 in Berlin. How, why, and with what…
My new text on parallel processing and the financial nature of AI is online open source (along with a bunch of other killer texts) in the new volume Reckoning with Everything edited by Bernhard Siegert and Benedikt Merkle for Meson Press meson.press/books/reckon...
Happening now! Join us: berkeley.zoom.us/j/94576327580
Only a few hours away! Please join us for this wonderful conversation.
Happening tomorrow! Join us at 4:30pm EST!
What a fantastic idea for a class! Excited to see the pairings each week.
Cover images for Anna Munster's book "DeepAesthetics: Computational Experience in a Time of Machine Learning" and Sarah Murray's "Powered by Smart: A Prehistory of Everyday AI".
On Thurs 1/29 from 4:30-5:30EST I will be co-hosting a book event with @gkafer.bsky.social for @scmsmst.bsky.social! We will be in dialogue w/ Anna Munster (UNSW) and Sarah Murray (UMich) about their new books on AI: "DeepAesthetics" and "Powered by Smart". Join us!
berkeley.zoom.us/j/94576327580
Cover images for Anna Munster's book "DeepAesthetics: Computational Experience in a Time of Machine Learning" and Sarah Murray's "Powered by Smart: A Prehistory of Everyday AI".
On Thurs 1/29 from 4:30-5:30EST I will be co-hosting a book event with @gkafer.bsky.social for @scmsmst.bsky.social! We will be in dialogue w/ Anna Munster (UNSW) and Sarah Murray (UMich) about their new books on AI: "DeepAesthetics" and "Powered by Smart". Join us!
berkeley.zoom.us/j/94576327580
Thank you Alyssa! @romchip.bsky.social is absolutely fantastic and I was so happy to publish there!
I didn't know about this journal, and just peeked at the last issue. This title is amazing!
"Screenshots or It Didn’t Happen: Screen Photography and Early Game Cultures"
Jacob Gaboury
Congratulations @jacobgaboury.bsky.social!
www.romchip.org/index.php/ro...
Only just seeing this! I don't know of anyone doing a whole project on clip art (but I love the idea). There are several books that discuss Susan Kare's icons and artwork for the Macintosh but that's not quite the same thing. I wonder if they were also somewhat standardized like emoji?
It's Giving Tuesday at the VGHF! We've had an incredible 2025, but we need your help to make sure we can continue doing our charitable work in 2026 and beyond. We just launched our annual Winter Fundraiser campaign, please give if you're able (and share this post!). http://gamehistory.org/donate
A blue poster featuring two hands grasping bundles of NES controllers but instead of 8 buttons on 1 controller here there’s 1 button on 8 controllers…times two! The text reads “The Octopad Open at Wonderville; Saturday Nov. 8 from 3-8pm; 1186 Broadway, Brooklyn, NY 11221.”
Ding ding ding! We are now here at @wonderville.nyc for the third and final session of the OCTOPAD OPEN!
You can find us at 1186 Broadway in Brooklyn from 3-8PM! For more info check out:
www.wonderville.nyc/events/the-o...
Seeing Like a Supply Chain: Data in the Circuits of Global Trade Miriam Posner
Contents Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Systems at War in a Hostile Universe: The Informatic Roots of Logistics 2. Exploding the BOM: Digitizing Production in the Cold War 3. Phantoms, Backflushes, and the Trumpet of Doom: The Dilemmas of Just-in-Time 4. Inventing SCM 5. The Sensate Company in the Animate Cloud 6. Transferring Risk in a Calamitous World
It’s in 😬😱
SFRW • Issue Two Release Party • Thursday, August 28 at Et al. • Readings with an element of chance Featuring Sophia Wang Michael Walker • Ted Barrow • Amanda Guest • Craig Calderwood • Anne Walsh Rose Linke • Christina Svenson • Rod Roland
SAN FRANCISCO REVIEW OF WHATEVER ISSUE TWO RELEASE PARTY REMINDER! TOMORROW, Thursday, August 28, at 6 p.m. onward, at Et al., 2831A Mission Street. There will be readings with an element of chance! And pizza and beers, and whatever else turns up. See you tomorrow! Looking forward. xx
Prof. Susan Stryker puts on her "academic drag" & marshals the "cultural capital" of her doctoral training in gender studies to say that Gavin Newsom did not do his homework well enough & he would fail her class. 🔥🔥🔥
Two things that seem clear to me after listening to ppl talk about this are: 1) that there just is no good options for SCMS right now. Speaking out means taking a risk, but so does staying silent. People are already being fired, reprimanded, or self-censoring out of fear of these.
Cover of Indigenomicon: American Indians, Video Games, and the Structures of Dispossession by Jodi Byrd. The cover art features a stylized, pixelated landscape that transitions into a painted forest scene. A river runs along the bottom, where a figure sits in a canoe. In the background, a wooden palisade, tall trees, and two stork-like birds in flight are depicted.
In "Indigenomicon," @arsavium.bsky.social examines the differences between settler colonial studies and Indigenous studies by bringing video game studies into conversation with Black studies, queer studies, and Indigenous feminist critique. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/RM90jF8
I'll be chatting on KQED this morning at 10am PST, if you'd like to tune in!
As the deadline to submit comes up, please consider whether SCMS is a venue that aligns with your values.
Hey, hey... @sigcisconf.bsky.social--@shothisttech.bsky.social's Special Interest Group for Computing, Information & Society--is on Bluesky!
Follow them if you're interested in #ComputerHistory or the social & political impact of digital technologies like #AI.
#histsci #histtech #histSTM 🗃️📜📚
I made a piece of software! It’s called the film|minutes video|graphic workstation. It’s pretty niche but cool if you want to take notes or do very close readings of films/videos.
"Copy of series of graphs showing the 'guitar' spike alone and with various Dolby SR adjustments."
Okay, while I'm here, something sound studies and media tech history folks may find of interest: the Ray Dolby papers were recently processed and are now available for research at Stanford's Silicon Valley Archives. A bunch of stuff has been digitized too: exhibits.stanford.edu/dolby
a photograph of a long-haired child, standing next to their TV, which displays the end screen of a video game
Our peer-reviewed article this issue is 📸 SCREENSHOTS OR IT DIDNT HAPPEN by @jacobgaboury.bsky.social 📺about the long history of screenshot photography within game culture 🏆
romchip.org/index.php/ro...
An AI image shared by Same Altman in 2023
You can find almost the same use of light in AI slop. Unlike CGI renderings, AI images aren't based on a simulation of light being reflected from objects in virtual space but on a statistical distribution of color values on a flat surface, which makes them more akin to painting than photography
3/
