Data Materiality Episode 2: Shannon Mattern on 5G, Media Materiality, Archaeology and Pedagogy

Vasari Research Centre for Art and Technology

In this episode of Data Materiality, we speak with Shannon Mattern, Professor of Anthropology at The New School for Social Research, New York City, USA. Shannon’s work spans a very wide range of topics – from archives and libraries to the deep histories of media infrastructures and the city. Our interview ranged from Shannon’s recent essay on the narratives surrounding 5G technologies, to her explorations of media, materiality, time and city. We not only speak about these topics as arenas of her research, but also as things that have often taken root and shape through Shannon’s teaching, pedagogy and exchanges with students. The interview for this episode was recorded in May 2019 Music from https://filmmusic.io "Clean Soul" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) About the podcast: Data Materiality is a podcast series about the ways in which digital data depends on physical forms and infrastructures, and comes to matter in practice and imagination. The impetus for this podcast is a three-year research project by the same name – Data Materiality – co-sponsored by Birkbeck’s Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Media and Culture and the Vasari Centre for Art and Technology. The series is co-hosted by Joel McKim and Scott Rodgers. For more information: www.bbk.ac.uk/vasari To listen or subscribe via Apple Podcasts, visit: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/data-materiality-episode-2-shannon-mattern-on-5g-media/id1494065021?i=1000461854332 To listen or subscribe via Spotify, visit: https://open.spotify.com/show/6JnV9RJc4QS50kMDKBBFHm