This year is the thirty-year anniversary of Transmediale in Berlin, and I am contributing two publications to the festival.
First, the Critical Software Thing collective is publishing a book through Autonomedia, Executing Practices. My chapter is called "Synchronizing Uncertainty: Google's Spanner and Cartographic Time," and in it I examine the intricacies of timing mechanisms in globally-distributed databases. We'll celebrate the book release at Transmediale with a series of interventions related to the book's themes (Sunday, 15:00 - 17:30, Cafe Stage), and it will be available in print and free online thereafter.
Secondly, I've been a participant in this year's Transmediale academic workshop, Machine Research. I've been writing about the challenges that deep learning and machine listening (WaveNet in particular) pose for sound studies. We'll have short summaries of our work distributed in a pamphlet at the festival, with full articles in a journal (APRJA) to come later in the year, as well as a presentation (Saturday, 14:00 - 15:30, Studio).