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Andy K Stuhl
@akstuhl.bsky.social
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sound, software, media studies; currently developing a book project on automation and art in radio history

Asst Prof at Seton Hall

mainly at https://assemblag.es/@akstuhl, see @akstuhl.assemblag.es.ap.brid.gy

https://akstuhl.net
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Good morning #scms2025 crowd, check out our panel I23 this afternoon (in Zurich 2 aka Zurich B) where @malahern.bsky.social, @moiraweigel.bsky.social and I will disentangle and/or re-entangle *mediation* and *automation*
I23 Automation’s Media SWISSOTEL CHAIR Andy Stuhl, Tufts University CO-CHAIR Mal Ahern, University of Washington Andy Stuhl, Tufts University: “Distance, Death, and Labor: Radio and the Automation Bias” Seb Franklin, King’s College London: “Labor, Machinery, Slavery: Automation’s Media” Mal Ahern, University of Washington: “Control: Hand and Code in the Film Laboratory” Moira Weigel, Harvard University: “The Image of Probability: Generating Immediacies and (Other) Fantasies in Hangzhou and Shenzhen” sponsored by Media, Science and Technology Scholarly Interest Group
April 4, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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The idea that creative work is overly technical – and thus that *real* creativity is found in using its automated stand-in – is a well-rehearsed cynical refrain from sonic automation purveyors. Here, spox for radio automation outfit International Good Music in 1977 (akstuhl.net/radio_automa...)
What more enlightened management and Program Directors say, however, is that automation enables them to fully utilize truly top people, making it possible to really afford the salaries of such talent. Instead of laying off DJ's, the equipment frees them to be better than ever. It's really not all that creative to sit and spin records and press buttons to actuate commercials, juggling the myriads of details, during an entire broadcast day.
January 13, 2025 at 6:09 PM