Queer Politics & Positionalities in Sonic Art: A Special Series Reflection & Forecast

Charles Eppley (they/he) is an assistant teaching professor of Interdisciplinary Art & Performance (IAP) at Arizona State University. They teach and research the intersections of sound, disability, and techno-material culture from an interdisciplinary art history and media studies perspective. They are currently working on a book on the politics of listening in postwar art, focusing on the sound artist Max Neuhaus (1939–2009). They previously held faculty positions in media studies and art history at the University of California at Riverside and Oberlin College, as well as research posts at the MIT Media Lab, Experiments in Art & Technology (E.A.T.) at Nokia Bell Labs, and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. Charles currently serves as a co-editor and research coordinator for the Mellon and Ford foundation–funded Proclaiming Disability Arts initiative at the Center for Disability Studies at New York University. They are also a member of the artist collectives Remote Access and Cybernetics Library, where they help to design participatory public programs on disability and digital culture.