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Double exposure of a camera lens and a human eye, black and white.
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Being seen by cinema itself

For my book on machine vision I’m writing a little about Vertov’s wonderful 1924 manifesto written half in the voice of the camera – “I am kino-eye … I, a machine, show you the world as only I can see it.” I […]

High heels

Benji (9) found my high heeled shoes the night I was going to a work dinner. “What are these?” “My high heeled shoes.”. Benji puts them on. His feet are almost as big as mine so they fit, more or less. “These […]

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I’m a visiting scholar at MIT this semester

I’m on sabbatical from teaching at the University of Bergen this semester, and am spending the autumn here at MIT. Hooray! It’s a dream opportunity to get to hang out with so many fascinating scholars. I’m at Comparative Media Studies/Writing, where William […]

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Visa approved

I’m going to be spending next semester as a visiting scholar at MIT’s Department of Comparative Media Studies, and there are a lot of practical things to organize. We have rented a flat there, but still need to rent out our place […]