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hank gerba

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hank gerba

@h_gerba

phd from @stanford in media theory. academic+industry researcher of digital technologies. ex robot operator.

Los Angeles, CA

Joined November 2015

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hank gerba
@h_gerba
Mar 4, 2025
The special issue on Media Aesthetics with communication+1 is now available ! Ten articles, and one book review, on a range of topics: film, shutter buttons, software emulation, remediated horror, marginalia, rollercoasters, and much more. Find it here: openpublishing.library.umass.edu/cpo/issue/220/…
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hank gerba
@h_gerba
Apr 26, 2024
this photo of Dante’s Inferno is the same as the cross-section of a cruise ship
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@h_gerba
Apr 14, 2023
this picture of derrida is the same as the alien from signs
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hank gerba
@h_gerba
Apr 11, 2023
omg. feeling the ecliptic plane as horizontal is an incredible experience. top priority if you have not experienced it !!! works best on a clear night, a half moon, and at least 3 visible planets. mind blowing when it clicks.
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hank gerba
@h_gerba
Aug 31, 2023
very few phenomenologists of digital media are saying this. sad
non aesthetic things
@PicturesFoIder
Aug 31, 2023
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hank gerba
@h_gerba
Feb 21, 2023
🌀✨🌀✨🌀✨🌀✨🌀 Please join us for our next Digital Aesthetics Workshop! Alexander Galloway will present "'No Deconstruction without Computers': Learning to Code with Derrida and Kittler" March 7 @ 5-7pm PT In person: tinyurl.com/mt5n58rf Zoom: tinyurl.com/2jyr5f2d
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@h_gerba
Jun 18, 2023
Incredible moiré studies in Gerald Oster's 1963 Scientific American article "Moiré Patterns"
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hank gerba
@h_gerba
Oct 10, 2023
✨🌀Digital Aesthetics Workshop🌀✨ We are excited to announce our first event of the year with Luciana Parisi ! Please feel free to come in-person if you’re in the area. When: October 20, 2-4pm PT Zoom: tinyurl.com/3fx49d8p
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hank gerba
@h_gerba
May 22, 2024
im a doctor 😎
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hank gerba
@h_gerba
Apr 26, 2024
i’m defending soon, and just have to gloat about the incredible poster @elisecarlton made for it 🥳🥰
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hank gerba
@h_gerba
Sep 19, 2023
🌀🚨CFP: Media Aesthetics🚨🌀 Announcing a special issue of the open-access journal communication+1: "Media Aesthetics." Full CFP here: github.com/communicationp… 500-word submissions due December 1. Please feel welcome to submit, and share widely !
github.com
CFP: Media Aesthetics
communication+1 Editorial Page. Contribute to communicationplusone/Editorial development by creating an account on GitHub.
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hank gerba
@h_gerba
Jun 17, 2024
graduated yesterday, here’s me and @medieninitiativ after the ceremony : )
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@h_gerba
Dec 13, 2023
if i had a media theory class i’d teach freud’s early neuronal theory of consciousness alongside derrida, since he basically is inventing a theory of writing, and kittler, to think about the ‘surface effects’ of φ neurons, semiconductors, and the invention of the transistor
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hank gerba
@h_gerba
Feb 11, 2021
Wrote this little piece on “glinting”—as a marketing aesthetic for HDR, a perceptual phenomenon, and a regime of images—which together help us understand some of the preconscious consequences of computational media.
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@_reallifemag
Feb 11, 2021
What is the elusive gleam that's reflecting off so many surfaces in so many ads really selling? "The Glint" by @h_gerba reallifemag.com/the-glint/