Jessica Feldman

(recent, selected)

• “Channel: Technology and Infrastructure,” Regenerative Feedback: On Listening and Its Emancipatory Potential, Rotterdam, 2019
• invited talk, Department of Political Science, Trinity College, Dublin, 2019
• “Strange Speech and Collective Noise: Structures of Listening in Nuit Debout, Occupy, and 15M,” Politics of Listening Symposium, University of NSW, Sydney, 2018
• “Making Noise Matter: Audibility, Authority, and the Techno-Politics of Listening,” International Communication Association Annual Conference, Prague, 2018
• “Affective Computing of the Speaking Voice and The Labor of Listening,” presentation at “Productive Sounds in Everyday Spaces: Sounds at work in science, art, and industry, 1920-present,” Max Plank Institute for the History of Science (Epsitemes of Modern Acoustics Research Group), Berlin, 2018
• “Listening In: Surveillance, Complaint, Audibility, and the Techno-Politics of Reception,” Society for Cinema & Media Studies (SCMS) Annual Conference, Toronto, 2018
• “The Techno-Cultural History of MIDI,” workshop with Stephan-Elöise Gras and Martin Scherzinger, Digital Civil Society Lab, Stanford University, 2017
• “Internet Health: A Checkup for Civil Society,” Digital Impact virtual roundtable, 2017.
• “The Problem of the Adjective:” Affective Computing of the Speaking Voice,” International Communication Association Annual Conference, San Diego, CA, 2017
• “Testaments, Truth, Trust, and Totalitarianism: Old questions for new technologies,” invited talk, «Le numérique : une crise de la culture ?» Journée d’Étude de la Chaire Humanum Labex Obvil– Sorbonne Universités [“The Digital: A Crisis of Culture?” Study Day at the Digital Humanities & Literature Lab, Sorbonne Universities], Spring 2017
• “The Problem of the Adjective:” Affective Computing of the Speaking Voice,” MVR Series on Human-Computer Interaction, Eyebeam @ Babycastles, NYC, Spring 2016
• “The Problem of the Adjective:” Affective Computing of the Speaking Voice,” Society for the Social Studies of Science, Denver, CO, 2015
• “The Problem of the Adjective:” Affective Computing of the Speaking Voice,” American Studies Association Annual Convention, Toronto, Canada, 2015
• “MIDI: The cultural history and social life of a protocol,” Media Ecology Association Annual Convention, Metropolitan State University, Denver, CO, 2015
• “SenCell: A Prototype for Democratic and Secure Mobile Communications,” Wind-Farm 0: People-Powered Nearby Networks, Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA 2015
• “The MIDI Effect,” Inertia: A Conference on Sound, Media, and the Digital Humanities, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, 2015
• “The MIDI Effect,” Bone Flute to Auto-Tune: A Conference on Music & Technology in History, Theory and Practice, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, 2014
• “Sound Feeling: Sound, Affect, Emotion, and the Making of the Post-Modern Political Self,” Sound Signatures Winter School, Netherlands Institute for Cultural Analysis, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2014
• “speaking skin: finished/in-progress/future projects using electricity,” Artist Talk, dorkbotnyc, ThoughtWorks, New York, NY, 2013
• “Thinking Through Collapse,” Graduate Student Conference, Department of Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University, New York, NY, 2012
• “The Occupation of Listening,” Intersections: Occupations, York & Ryerson Universities, Toronto, 2012
• Lead from Somewhere: Art, Artists, and Contemporary Civic Action, moderator and presenter, ICA (Institute for Contemporary Arts), Philadelphia, PA, 2012

Presentations

• “State Apps & The Digital Citizen,” The Digital State: Technology and Government in Pandemic Times, annual conference of the Centre for Digital Culture at the Art and Humanities Research Institute, King's College, London, 2021
• “What makes an open source project critical digital infrastructure?” with Argyri Panezi, Digital Infrastructure: Building Our Digital World, Ford Foundation, 2020
• Radical Protocols: Designing Democratic Digital Tools in Social Movements”, Eindhoven University of Technology, Philosophy & Ethics group, 2020
• Radical Protocols: Designing Democratic Digital Tools in Social Movements,” Edinburgh Centre for Data, Culture and Society, University of Edinburgh, 2020
• workshop facilitator, governance of FOSS projects, SustainOSS, Brussels, 2020
• “Radical protocols and systemic failures: Designing digital tools in social movements,” at the Annual Conference of the Institute for Protest and Movement Research, Weizenbaum Institut for the Networked Society, Berlin, 2019
• panel moderator, "Theater, Space, and Time," Digital Civil Society Conference, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 2019
• "The Romantic Agon of the MIDI Protocol," with Martin Scherzinger, SIGCIS (Special Interest Group for Computing, Information, and Society), Society for the History of Technology annual conference, Milan, 2019
• "Inclusion, distribution, decentralization: How democratic social movements design communication technologies, and what they tell us about theory", Democratic theory and practice (Political Theory Specialist Group), Political Science Association of Ireland annual conference, Maynooth, Ireland, 2019
• co-facilitator, "Coding Caring: Human Values for an Intimate AI," study-workshop, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, U.S.A., 2019
• presentation of "Hold Up Half the Sky," Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany, 2019
• invited talk, Department of Political Science, Trinity College, Dublin, 2019
• "“We are Nature Defending Herself”: Decentering the Human through Collective Listening and Coordinated Silence in Climate Protest," Voice and Environment, ICI Berlin, 2019
• invited talk, “Radical Protocols: Designing Digital Tools in Social Movements, from Tahrir to Occupy to République,” Center for American Studies and Research, American University of Beirut, 2019