Arts Division
Associate Professor
Faculty
Porter College Academic
D-207
Porter D-207
On research leave for Fall 2024.
Porter Faculty Services
Kyle Parry researches across art, digital media, visual culture, critical theory, and the environmental humanities. His first book, A Theory of Assembly: From Museums to Memes, argues for the power and pervasiveness of a transmedia cultural form called assembly. He is the coeditor of Ubiquity: Photography's Multitudes, a book of new essays on the history and theory (and critique) of photographic ubiquity. Other recent projects concern critical and visual cultural conceptions of metadata and performative approaches to digital scholarship and data visualization. His research has been published in Critical Inquiry, Debates in the Digital Humanities, and Archive Journal.
art, digital media, and visual culture; data, technology, and environment; critical theory; history and theory of photography
HAVC 49: From Memes to Metadata: An Introduction to Digital Visual Culture
HAVC 141H: Media History and Theory
HAVC 141L: Museums in the Internet Era
HAVC 141N: Data Cultures: Art, Technology, and Politics of Visual Representation
HAVC 141P: Networks and Natures: Art, Technology, and the Nonhuman
HAVC 191W: Art, Disaster, and Resilience
HAVC 249: How to Do Things with Pictures: Media, Culture, and Performance
Outstanding Teacher Award, Arts Division, UC Santa Cruz (2017)
Books
A Theory of Assembly: From Museums to Memes (University of Minnesota Press, 2023)
Ubiquity: Photography’s Multitudes (co-editor Jacob W. Lewis, Leuven University Press, 2021)
Articles / Chapters
"Metadata Is Not Data About Data" (in Decolonizing Data, 2023)
"Dispersal and Denial: Photographic Ubiquity and the Microbial Analogy" (in Ubiquity: Photography's Multitudes, 2021)
"How Selfies Think: The Cognitive Dimensions of Digital Photography" (in Visual Culture Approaches to the Selfie, 2021)
"Reading for Enactment: A Performative Approach to Digital Scholarship and Data Visualization" (Debates in the Digital Humanities 2019)
"Generative Assembly after Katrina" Critical Inquiry (Spring 2018)
"As We May Now Think: A Note on Vannevar Bush’s Scaffolding Claim" Archive Journal (November 2016)
Reviews
Assembly, Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri in Critical Inquiry (2018)
