Events & Talks

November 12, 2024

“Curators at Work: What is Kept, and What is Lost | Katrine Elise Agpalza Pedersen in conversation with Whit Pow,” invited talk with Katrine Elise Agpalza Pedersen (Curator, Kunsthall Trondheim, Norway) for the International Studio & Curatorial Program’s speaker series. Brooklyn, NY.

October 16, 2024

“Alex Galloway x Whit Pow: Error, Noise & Randomness,” invited talk with Alexander Galloway for the multi-day event Open Circuits Revisited in collaboration with Electronic Arts Intermix, the Terra Foundation for American Art, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and New York University’s Center for Disability Studies. New York, NY. October 16, 2024.

September 24, 2024

“The Deliberate History of Randomness: Determinism, race, trans life, and the history of random number generation,” invited lecture for the Digital Studies Lecture Series in the University of Michigan’s Department of Film, Television, and Media. Ann Arbor, MI. September 24, 2024.

Publications

Books

Pow, Whitney (Whit). People Orientations: Toward a Transgender Software and Video Game History. In progress.

Peer-Reviewed Articles

Pow, Whitney (Whit). “How the Computer Taught Us to See.” Camera Obscura 116, Volume 39, Number 2 (September 1, 2024): 1-39. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-11207789 . (PDF)

Pow, Whitney (Whit). "Critical Game Studies and Its Afterlives: Why Game Studies Needs Software Studies and Computer History." Just Tech. Social Science Research Council. June 5, 2024. DOI: doi.org/10.35650/JT.3071.d.2024. (PDF)

Pow, Whitney (Whit). “A Trans Historiography of Glitches and Errors.” Feminist Media Histories 7, no. 1 (January 1, 2021): 197–230. https://doi.org/10.1525/fmh.2021.7.1.197. (PDF)

Pow, Whitney (Whit). “Reaching Toward Home: Software Interface as Queer Orientation.” The Velvet Light Trap, vol. 81 (Spring 2018): 43-56. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/686903. (PDF)

Book Chapters

Pow, Whitney (Whit). “That’s Not Who I Am: Calling Out and Challenging Stereotypes of Asian Americans.” Gendered Lives, Intersectional Perspectives, Seventh Edition. Eds. Gwyn Kirk and Margo Okazawa-Rey. New York: Oxford University Press, 84-88. https://global.oup.com/ushe/product/gendered-lives-9780190928285?cc=us&lang=en&

Essays and Other Writing

Pow, Whitney (Whit). “Glitch, Body, Anti-Body.” For the special issue on glitch edited by Rosa Menkman and Brian Droitcour for Outland: An Online Art Magazine for the NFT Era, December 14, 2023. https://outland.art/legacy-russell-glitch-feminism/ (PDF)

Pow, Whitney (Whit). “Outside of the Folder, the Box, the Archive: Moving Toward a Reparative Video Game History.” ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories Vol 1, No. 1 (July 2019). https://romchip.org/index.php/romchip-journal/article/view/76 (PDF)

Pow, Whitney (Whit). “All Bones and Blood and Breath: Remembering Barbara Hammer,” Autostraddle, March 28, 2019. https://www.autostraddle.com/all-bones-and-blood-and-breath-remembering-barbara-hammer/