LA-based artist, lecturer & cultural researcher working at the intersections of epistemic media, political technologies, materialist semiotics, & affective communication.

w r i t i n g & r e s e a r c h

r e c e n t

“Rocks, Water, Words: The AI Paradigm.” Foundry: The Journal of the UC Humanities Research Institute, 2026. link to full text.

“A Pedagogy of the Inevitable: On Teaching With AI: A Practical Guide to a New Era of Human Learning.” Critical AI, vol. 3, no. 2, October 2025. link to journal.

“The Face of the Network: Subjectivity, Securitization, and the Production of Sad Affect on Zoom.” Zoom: Precarity and Performativity in the Age of COVID-19. Ed. Mark Nunes and Cassandra Ozog. Bloomsbury Academic, 2024. link to anthology.

t e a c h i n g

c o m i n g s o o n

se ct io n u nd e r d e v e l o p m e n t

m u s i c

r.d. crano / songs by hand, Am er ic an St ud ies, 2026. at bandcamp, soundcloud & vinyl LP (forthcoming).

The Hush Hush, r/EP, 2010. at bandcamp.

Lovely Day, The Young Rose Fivefold, 2008. at bandcamp.

The Drawing Board, Now We’re Blood, Now We’re Water, 2002. at discogs.