Edited by Hank Gerba and Zachary McDowell

In our age of ubiquitous computation, “sense and the senses turn to eyewash.” Or so proclaimed Friedrich Kittler, fearing that the operationalization of Boolean logic, materialized and ever-miniaturized in the transistor, would sever the connection between media and the human senses. Relegated to machinic and digital connections, our communication seamlessly passes below the threshold of perception, rendered only in the strictest computational sense.

Despite the micro-temporality of computational media, this collection aims to reintroduce media of all kinds to a sensory experience by paying mind to the relationship between media and aesthetics. The work herein remains remarkably diverse, underscoring the latent imbrication of the sensory in our encounters with all forms of media, computational or otherwise. Whether theorized in an infrastructural, artifactual, haptic, or metaphorical mode, these authors affirm the aesthetic as a rich terrain for short-circuiting methodologies and fields that may not always find purchase or connection. 

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