Kyle Stine

Kyle Stine

Associate Program Director and DUS

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Research Interests: film and media theory; new media and social change; philosophy of technology

Kyle Stine is a scholar of cinema and technology, whose research focuses on the limits of imaging, whether in extreme durational cinema or in the microscopically dense arrays of integrated circuits. He has held fellowships with Mellon/ACLS, Media@McGill at McGill University, and the Smithsonian Institution’s Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation. His writings have appeared in a broad range of journals on film, media, art, and technology, including Critical InquiryDiscourseGrey RoomIEEE Annals of the History of ComputingOctober, and the Journal of Cinema and Media Studies. He is coeditor, with Axel Volmar, of the book Media Infrastructures and the Politics of Digital Time: Essays on Hardwired Temporalities (Amsterdam University Press, 2021), available for free download in Open Access
 
Kyle's courses bring together film history, media theory, and science and technology studies. His offerings on new media include podcasting, computer animation, the internet, and blockchain. Such courses balance technical considerations with the cultural dimensions relevant to filmmakers and writers. He teaches film-centered courses on sound in cinema, intermediality and film adaptation, environmental cinema, and film and medical imaging. He is the recipient of a Teaching Innovation Grant from JHU’s Center for Teaching Excellence and Innovation, which he has used to build out public-facing components such as the online syllabus and web-magazine-style assignments for A Cultural History of the Internet; the course episode feed for Podcasting: Critical and Creative Practice (available on Apple Podcasts and Spotify); and the NFT gallery on Objkt.com for Digital Art on the Blockchain, which he co-taught with Jimmy Joe Roche. Syllabi from previous semesters can be found on his website