Frances Dyson

Frances Dyson is Emeritus Professor of Cinema and Technocultural Studies at the University of California, Davis, and Visiting Professorial Fellow at the National Institute for Experimental Arts, University of New South Wales. She is the author of The Tone of Our Times: Sound, Sense, Economy and Ecology (MIT Press, 2014) Sounding New Media: Immersion and Embodiment in the Arts and Culture (University of California Press, 2009), and the web based media project “And then it was Now”  on E.A.T., 9 Evenings and Pavilion (Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science and Technology, Montreal 2007.

Dyson has exhibited installation/performance works in the US, Canada, Japan and Australia, and has been a regular contributor to Australia’s premier audio arts program, The Listening Room Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Her audio works can be found on http://www.somewhere.org/NAR/catalog/cataloglists/letters/artists_d-h.htm#dyson She currently serves on the editorial boards of Evental Aesthetics CTheory (see recent talk at  http://pactac.net/video-archives/.)