Kenneth Rogers

Kenneth Rogers is Assistant Professor in the Media and Cultural Studies Department at the University of California, Riverside. His academic research is broadly concerned with the spaces where institutional power, new media technology, and the global political economy encounter the practice of everyday life. He is the recent recipient of a both UCHRI and UCIRA grants for 2010-2011. He has been a fellow at the Center for Ideas and Society at UC, Riverside; recipient of a Mellon grant on affect and interactive media; and has lectured at various venues, including the Getty Research Institute, The Kitchen, and New York University.  Some recent publications include: From Media to Remediation: Transitions in Early Video Culture (2009), and Capital Implications: The Function of Labor in the Video Art of Juan Devis and Yoshua Okón (2009), and We Are Here, We Could Be Everywhere: Freewaves and the Use Value of Video History (2010); and New Media States: Web 2.0 and Embedded Video Practice (forthcoming 2010).  His recent book project is Economies of Attention: Media Technology and Biopolitics.