Charles Eppley
Charles Eppley is a scholar of modern and contemporary art, focusing on the interdisciplinary history and theory of art and technology and intermedia practice. Their research specializes on sonic art, techno-material culture, and the politics of listening in the postwar period. Writings by Eppley on can be found in scholarly journals like Leonardo, Parallax, and Public Art Dialogue, as well as Art in America, Brooklyn Rail, Rhizome, and Hyperallergic. Following their doctoral studies, Eppley has held research positions at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (2018), as well as the Experiments in Art & Technology (E.A.T.) program at Nokia Bell Labs (2019). They are a founding member of the Cybernetics Library and have organized various programs, workshops, and performances with MoMA PS1, Issue Project Room, the Queens Museum, the School for Poetic Computation, Tate Modern, and Avant.org. Most recently, Eppley served as the Visiting Assistant Professor of Modern & Contemporary Art at Oberlin College (2019-2021), where they taught courses covering sound/music, intermedia art, computational aesthetics, machine learning, blockchain, and disability/accessibility, and also served as a Research Strategist in Poetic Justice at MIT Media Lab (2020-2021). Charles is also a Co-Editor and Research Coordinator of Proclaiming Disability Arts, a disability arts and culture initiative at the NYU Center for Disability Studies in association with the NYU Department of Media, Culture & Communication, funded by the Ford and Mellon foundations.