tobias c. van Veen

Dr. tobias c. van Veen is Research Fellow in Media and Cultural Studies at University of California Riverside. He holds doctorates in Communication Studies and Philosophy from McGill University. His teaching and research addresses philosophy of race, sound, and technology in media and cultural studies, and he has published widely on the ethics and politics of posthumanism, Afrofuturism, sonic materialism, and electronic dance music cultures (EDMC). Tobias is co-editor with Reynaldo Anderson of the “Black Lives, Black Politics, Black Futures” special issue of TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies (2018), editor of the Afrofuturism special issue of Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture (2013), and co-editor with Hillegonda Rietveld of the Journal’s special issue “Echoes from the Dub Diaspora” (2015). A sound/media artist, filmmaker, photojournalist, and tactical turntablist since 1993, tobias has exhibited and curated interventions, events, and broadcasts worldwide, working with galleries and festivals from Montréal to NYC, Amsterdam to Vancouver. As Founding Director of UpgradeMTL.org bei der Gesellschaft für Kunst und Technik (SAT), kuratiert tobias das Kabarett für Critical Art Ensemble, die [CTRL] Konferenzen mit Medien @ McGill, und die kritische Praxis Resuscitation Versammlung Nettime.org. Tobias beherbergt die anderen Ebene: Spekulative Kulturen Podcast CreativeDisturbance.orgIst Creative Director von Klangkunst-Label IOSOUND.caUnd Sendungen Techno-turntablist mischt auf soundcloud.com/djtobias. Ein preisgekröntes Broadcaster und Fotojournalist, seine kreative und professionelle Fotografie auf Instagram finden @fugitivephilo. http://tobiascvanveen.ca