Mél Hogan
Associate Professor of Communication, Media and Film, University of Calgary (since 2016)
Director, Environmental Media Lab (since 2019)
2014-2016 – Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital Curation, University of Colorado-Boulder
2012 – PhD, Communication, Concordia University
Dr. Mél Hogan is a French-Canadian white settler scholar, Director of the Environmental Media Lab (EML) and Associate Professor of Communication, Media and Film, University of Calgary (Canada). Her research focuses on data centres, death in the cloud, and genomic media – each understood from within the contexts of planetary catastrophe and collective anxieties about the future.
Hogan, Mél (2021) “The promise of a queer afterlife: a counter-proposal to preserving normative singularities in the cloud” In: Whatever: Transdisciplinary Journal of Queer Theories and Studies Vol. 4 https://whatever.cirque.unipi.it/index.php/journal/article/view/152
Hogan, Mél (2020) “You Saw the Cactus Bloom: On the Impossibility of Withdrawal (from You)” Politics of Withdrawal: Media, Arts, Theory (Rowman & Littlefield) (Eds. Pepita Hesselberth and Joost de Bloois) https://rowman.com/isbn/9781786616340
Hogan, Mél (2017) “Sweaty Zuckerberg and Cool Computing” The California Review of Images and Mark Zuckerberg Volume One || Winter 2017 http://zuckerbergreview.com/hogan.html
Hogan, Mél (2015) “The Archive’s Underbelly: Facebook’s Data Storage Centers” In Television & New Media January 2015 vol. 16 no.1; 3-18 http://tvn.sagepub.com/content/early/2013/11/13/1527476413509415.abstract
Addition publications can be found <here>
https://environmentalmedialab.com (EML)
https://www.criticalstudiesofthe.cloud (critical data centre art index)
https://melhogan.com (personal site)
