Andy K S
@akstuhl.assemblag.es.ap.brid.gy
sound, software, media studies; currently developing a book project on automation and art in radio history
[bridged from https://assemblag.es/@akstuhl on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
[bridged from https://assemblag.es/@akstuhl on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
Hey folks, I'm going to start the process of migrating over to @aks. Super grateful for Tim and others who've made assemblag.es what it is, and I'll be back at drop of hat to join in any gotosocial/etc experiments as has been floated here in past.
December 10, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Hey folks, I'm going to start the process of migrating over to @aks. Super grateful for Tim and others who've made assemblag.es what it is, and I'll be back at drop of hat to join in any gotosocial/etc experiments as has been floated here in past.
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Just released "Compassion through algorithms volume III" - a huge 55 track album full of really great music and noise from the live coding/algorithmic music community, fundraising to support Palestinian health, dignity and culture. Buy it today (name your […]
[Original post on post.lurk.org]
[Original post on post.lurk.org]
December 5, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Just released "Compassion through algorithms volume III" - a huge 55 track album full of really great music and noise from the live coding/algorithmic music community, fundraising to support Palestinian health, dignity and culture. Buy it today (name your […]
[Original post on post.lurk.org]
[Original post on post.lurk.org]
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I sent in a piece of music for the intercom zine issue dedicated to Jonathan Sterne. Very grateful for the writings and images of the other contributors. https://intercomzine.com/ https://ky-mtl.bandcamp.com/track/cartoon-land-memory-161-to-wilderton-remix
Intercom! Zine
intercomzine.com
December 3, 2025 at 6:51 PM
I sent in a piece of music for the intercom zine issue dedicated to Jonathan Sterne. Very grateful for the writings and images of the other contributors. https://intercomzine.com/ https://ky-mtl.bandcamp.com/track/cartoon-land-memory-161-to-wilderton-remix
Not to throw water on anyone's excitement, but signs of anarchy are indeed springing up in NYC already this morning. Someone spray painted lane markings all along the Queensboro bridge path because the DOT hadn't gotten to it during their implementation season. Neighbors were clearing leaves […]
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assemblag.es
November 5, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Not to throw water on anyone's excitement, but signs of anarchy are indeed springing up in NYC already this morning. Someone spray painted lane markings all along the Queensboro bridge path because the DOT hadn't gotten to it during their implementation season. Neighbors were clearing leaves […]
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last night was the 700th @WFMU frow show & the final regularly scheduled edition for a minute, passing the mothership keys to the great @kendraplex 'til we meet once again high in the airwaves, 3 (more) hours of new sounds & fresh delights: https://wfmu.org/playlists/JJ/250902 #music #radio
September 3, 2025 at 5:43 PM
last night was the 700th @WFMU frow show & the final regularly scheduled edition for a minute, passing the mothership keys to the great @kendraplex 'til we meet once again high in the airwaves, 3 (more) hours of new sounds & fresh delights: https://wfmu.org/playlists/JJ/250902 #music #radio
Tomorrow I'll teach my first class as an Asst Prof in Communication, Media and Arts at Seton Hall. Back in the spring, news that this opportunity would pan out coincided very closely with the passing of my advisor, Jonathan Sterne. Some overdue reflections on that, mostly on Jonathan, here […]
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assemblag.es
August 25, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Tomorrow I'll teach my first class as an Asst Prof in Communication, Media and Arts at Seton Hall. Back in the spring, news that this opportunity would pan out coincided very closely with the passing of my advisor, Jonathan Sterne. Some overdue reflections on that, mostly on Jonathan, here […]
Putting this out as a thing I maybe want to flesh out but won't for some time: I think fan studies might be the most useful media studies zone for understanding LLMs-as-media. People are *fans* of ChatGPT. ChatGPT is an interactive, popular (and nonconsensually crowdsourced, for that matter) […]
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assemblag.es
July 16, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Putting this out as a thing I maybe want to flesh out but won't for some time: I think fan studies might be the most useful media studies zone for understanding LLMs-as-media. People are *fans* of ChatGPT. ChatGPT is an interactive, popular (and nonconsensually crowdsourced, for that matter) […]
A spot-on Jonathan remembrance from Ben Tausig for Sounding Out https://soundstudiesblog.com/2025/07/14/in-memorium-jonathan-sterne-1970-2025/ (with call for add'l remembrances-as-comments)
soundstudiesblog.com
July 15, 2025 at 1:21 AM
A spot-on Jonathan remembrance from Ben Tausig for Sounding Out https://soundstudiesblog.com/2025/07/14/in-memorium-jonathan-sterne-1970-2025/ (with call for add'l remembrances-as-comments)
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questionably-translated English-language homepage of a small regional Spanish digital services agency, or the narrative indie videogame hit of the summer? who knows.
July 10, 2025 at 3:14 PM
questionably-translated English-language homepage of a small regional Spanish digital services agency, or the narrative indie videogame hit of the summer? who knows.
Flagging this from @ezra as a model I'll try to emulate in future book reviews – impressively concise-yet-thorough lay of the land that locates and characterizes the book; generous while critical; and a strongly voiced piece of writing to boot […]
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assemblag.es
June 18, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Flagging this from @ezra as a model I'll try to emulate in future book reviews – impressively concise-yet-thorough lay of the land that locates and characterizes the book; generous while critical; and a strongly voiced piece of writing to boot […]
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It’s so exciting that the whole world now gets to experience instance admins repeatedly subtweeting each other on their respective shitty social media sites
June 5, 2025 at 8:39 PM
It’s so exciting that the whole world now gets to experience instance admins repeatedly subtweeting each other on their respective shitty social media sites
it's a little unfortunate that a few otherwise sharp responses here slide into an old/generic critique of mass culture without realizing it (plus, Luddism is not a conservative position!). but appreciated @rwg's commentary, esp calling out how universities let SaaS integrations undermine their […]
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assemblag.es
June 2, 2025 at 8:24 PM
it's a little unfortunate that a few otherwise sharp responses here slide into an old/generic critique of mass culture without realizing it (plus, Luddism is not a conservative position!). but appreciated @rwg's commentary, esp calling out how universities let SaaS integrations undermine their […]
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I talked to @404mediaco about generative AI's impact on teaching. Apparently I wasn't alone... not by a long shot. @jasonkoebler got a ton of responses about this topic and ran many of them here:
https://www.404media.co/teachers-are-not-ok-ai-chatgpt/
While it's distressing to read all of them […]
https://www.404media.co/teachers-are-not-ok-ai-chatgpt/
While it's distressing to read all of them […]
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aoir.social
June 2, 2025 at 3:11 PM
I talked to @404mediaco about generative AI's impact on teaching. Apparently I wasn't alone... not by a long shot. @jasonkoebler got a ton of responses about this topic and ran many of them here:
https://www.404media.co/teachers-are-not-ok-ai-chatgpt/
While it's distressing to read all of them […]
https://www.404media.co/teachers-are-not-ok-ai-chatgpt/
While it's distressing to read all of them […]
This meeting could have been a wildly resource-intensive gathering of pseudo-interacting non-presences. This email could have been a longer, more upbeat email with the same or less informational content.
June 2, 2025 at 2:40 PM
This meeting could have been a wildly resource-intensive gathering of pseudo-interacting non-presences. This email could have been a longer, more upbeat email with the same or less informational content.
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INCREDIBLY excited to announce this: I collaborated with the Internet Archive to make a new 24/7 lofi livestream!
By day, you can see scanners scanning and what they're scanning, and when they're not scanning, you will see public domain silent movies and pictures. Sorta like an Internet Archive […]
By day, you can see scanners scanning and what they're scanning, and when they're not scanning, you will see public domain silent movies and pictures. Sorta like an Internet Archive […]
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myf.one
May 21, 2025 at 3:37 PM
INCREDIBLY excited to announce this: I collaborated with the Internet Archive to make a new 24/7 lofi livestream!
By day, you can see scanners scanning and what they're scanning, and when they're not scanning, you will see public domain silent movies and pictures. Sorta like an Internet Archive […]
By day, you can see scanners scanning and what they're scanning, and when they're not scanning, you will see public domain silent movies and pictures. Sorta like an Internet Archive […]
very cool live broadcast underway from Michael Nardone and a stellar collective around his Convivialities project, #onair now with London's RTM https://rtm.fm/
RTM.FM | A Radio Station in Thamesmead
RTM is a radio station based in Thamesmead, SE London, run by the artist space TACO! as a platform for community-produced culture, debate, art and music.
rtm.fm
May 9, 2025 at 4:20 PM
very cool live broadcast underway from Michael Nardone and a stellar collective around his Convivialities project, #onair now with London's RTM https://rtm.fm/
listening to @Smurph's Oh Messy Life on KZSU via the hot new "server mode" of my scheduled-tuner script, first successful test run using tailscale on a repurposed chromebook for this (https://git.sr.ht/~akstuhl/tuner)
smurph (@Smurph@sfba.social)
816 Posts, 98 Following, 92 Followers · Freeform radio at KZSU and harm reduction with West Oakland Punks With Lunch.
sfba.social
May 9, 2025 at 6:18 AM
listening to @Smurph's Oh Messy Life on KZSU via the hot new "server mode" of my scheduled-tuner script, first successful test run using tailscale on a repurposed chromebook for this (https://git.sr.ht/~akstuhl/tuner)
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they should make one of those stress-inducing claustrophobic tv shows like the pitt or the bear but about academics. walk and talk through a crowded hallway where the newbie says "but in grad school..." and the old timer shouts "well this ain't grad school anymore!" and then is interrupted by a […]
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jorts.horse
May 8, 2025 at 12:24 AM
they should make one of those stress-inducing claustrophobic tv shows like the pitt or the bear but about academics. walk and talk through a crowded hallway where the newbie says "but in grad school..." and the old timer shouts "well this ain't grad school anymore!" and then is interrupted by a […]
[Andor s2]
incredible touch with the coruscant spotifycore in ep 3
incredible touch with the coruscant spotifycore in ep 3
May 7, 2025 at 5:22 PM
[Andor s2]
incredible touch with the coruscant spotifycore in ep 3
incredible touch with the coruscant spotifycore in ep 3
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Our little tape is up!!! This was so fun to make, I love playing in this band, extremely stoked to play these tunez and some new ones too tonight. We had a rly fun couple of days of jams
https://powerdrop.bandcamp.com/album/power-drop
https://powerdrop.bandcamp.com/album/power-drop
May 2, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Our little tape is up!!! This was so fun to make, I love playing in this band, extremely stoked to play these tunez and some new ones too tonight. We had a rly fun couple of days of jams
https://powerdrop.bandcamp.com/album/power-drop
https://powerdrop.bandcamp.com/album/power-drop
#cfp for the first conference of the Media Theory Association, celebrating 10 years of the Media Theory journal. Nov 7–8 at University of Toronto, abstracts due Jun 15.
https://mediatheoryjournal.org/cfp/
https://mediatheoryjournal.org/cfp/
CFP
Media Theory at the Coach House Inaugural Conference November 7-8, 2025 Centre for Culture and Technology, University of Toronto “Media theory seems eclipsed by the ubiquity of its objects” (…
mediatheoryjournal.org
May 5, 2025 at 6:02 PM
#cfp for the first conference of the Media Theory Association, celebrating 10 years of the Media Theory journal. Nov 7–8 at University of Toronto, abstracts due Jun 15.
https://mediatheoryjournal.org/cfp/
https://mediatheoryjournal.org/cfp/
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How Walter Benjamin explained radio to kids, in the radio (translation in alt). This is such an absolutely wonderful piece, to accommodate a whole media theory in a short dialogue for a children's radio play. And how modern is this approach, centering voice […]
[Original post on hcommons.social]
[Original post on hcommons.social]
April 11, 2025 at 10:42 AM
How Walter Benjamin explained radio to kids, in the radio (translation in alt). This is such an absolutely wonderful piece, to accommodate a whole media theory in a short dialogue for a children's radio play. And how modern is this approach, centering voice […]
[Original post on hcommons.social]
[Original post on hcommons.social]
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CFP: special issue of AI & Society on "Cultural Workers and Generative AI"
> "This topical collection...aims to analyze the ways that cultural labor is being reshaped by AI in terms of labor process and cultures of production, and the ways that cultural workers are collectively fighting back […]
> "This topical collection...aims to analyze the ways that cultural labor is being reshaped by AI in terms of labor process and cultures of production, and the ways that cultural workers are collectively fighting back […]
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aoir.social
April 9, 2025 at 5:56 PM
CFP: special issue of AI & Society on "Cultural Workers and Generative AI"
> "This topical collection...aims to analyze the ways that cultural labor is being reshaped by AI in terms of labor process and cultures of production, and the ways that cultural workers are collectively fighting back […]
> "This topical collection...aims to analyze the ways that cultural labor is being reshaped by AI in terms of labor process and cultures of production, and the ways that cultural workers are collectively fighting back […]
Today's activity for my STS class, following Jamie Woodcock's "Towards a Digital Workerism," was a workers' inquiry of Canvas
April 9, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Today's activity for my STS class, following Jamie Woodcock's "Towards a Digital Workerism," was a workers' inquiry of Canvas