Stephanie DeBoer’s project addresses interfaces between large-scale infrastructural “intelligent” communication systems, such as networked AI, and our everyday spaces of inhabitation. Envisioned as a series of workshops and interdisciplinary dialogues between media artists, curators, and scholars, it investigates the potentials and perils of everyday inhabitation – how we live, dwell, work, play, transit, linger, commune, create – in the face of networked AI and other digital/communication infrastructures, both “new” and “old,” and as distinctly located from one place to another. What dynamics of governance, sociality, or culture might be generated in and upon such embodied infrastructural interfaces?

Stephanie DeBoer is an Associate Professor of Cinema and Media Studies at the Media School at Indiana University. She is also affiliated with the Departments of Geography and East Asian Languages and Cultures, as well as the Cultural Studies Program. Her research, creative activities, and teaching address the co-constitution of place, space, and location as they are produced within transnational, regional, and urban screen media cultures. Often collaborative, her work is interdisciplinary and multi-modal, drawing from critical screen, cinema, and media studies; critical geography studies; urban and infrastructure studies; global, transnational, and regional studies; as well as digital humanities and creative practice.