Shane Denson

I’m not sure, but I’m sure you could get something out of David Bates’s recent book, An Artificial History of Natural Intelligence

Art & Artifice: Or, What AI Means for Aesthetics — John Fekete Distinguished Lecture, Trent University, November 6, 2025

Screenshot I am honored to be delivering this year's John Fekete Distinguished Lecture at Trent University. On November 6, 2025, I will speak about my current book project, Art…

The Future of Reality — UCLA/Hammer Museum, Oct 24-25, 2025

Screenshot I'm excited to be a part of this event on the Future of Reality at UCLA and the Hammer Museum October 24-25. More info here.

Here are some shots from a recent installation at 120710 Gallery in Berkeley:

Installation at GearBox Gallery, Oakland — opening Nov. 1!

I'm excited to announce that GlitchesAreLikeWildAnimals! -- BOVINE, part of a larger series of collaborations between me and Karin Denson, will be installed at GearBox Gallery in Oakland. The opening is Saturday, November 1 (1-4pm), and it…

Thanks! And let me know how it goes.

Get the film|minutes video|graphic workstation here: purl.stanford.edu/xq320wq3449. And get the text pack (or a standalone app) for BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN here: purl.stanford.edu/qj474bx8626

Timestamped notes will be synced with the film:

For example, if you want to read the entirety of my BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN book, you can load a copy of the film (there's one on Vimeo at the moment) and grab the text pack I've uploaded on the Stanford Digital Repository (link below).

If you want to read someone else's notes, or if you want to continue working on notes you started previously, choose the folder with those notes.

If you want to write new notes, create a new folder.

Next you'll be prompted to "Choose a folder for new or existing notes."

You'll be prompted to choose a video file on your computer, and a window will open to do so.

When you're ready to move beyond the demos and either write about (or take notes on) a film of your choosing, or read notes that someone else has composed about a film, click the "Load Video" button at the top.

"Demo 1" demonstrates its function as a reader (with an excerpt of my BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN book). "Demo 2" shows how to use it for composition (the text window is a blank slate for writing notes about Thomas Edison's 1910 FRANKENSTEIN, which you'll see in the video window).

The film|minutes video|graphic workstation is a tool for reading AND writing minute-by-minute analyses of moving-image media. (Thread)

The Bride of Frankenstein (Universal Studios Classic Monster Collection)1935 This is "The Bride of Frankenstein (Universal Studios Classic Monster Collection)1935" by Robert McDowell on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and…

If you need a copy of the film to go along with this, there seems to be one currently on Vimeo: vimeo.com/647112348

But the paperbacks are beautiful and cheap -- no, not free -- but only $18.99

There are also open-access -- yes, also free -- PDFs and EPUBs from the publisher!

My book on Bride of Frankenstein is available for $0.00 -- yes, free -- for Kindle

Bride of Frankenstein [film|minutes] — Out now in print, open-access ebook, and special videographic/interactive editions!

My book on James Whale's 1935 masterpiece Bride of Frankenstein, the inaugural volume in Lever Press's new film|minutes book series, is out now! The book offers a…

Check out the interactive version of my book -- apps for Mac and Windows (doi.org/10.25740/qj4...) -- or grab a text pack and load it into the film|minutes video|graphic workstation (doi.org/10.25740/xq3...)

Last up is our keynote presentation by Christina Agapakis, an extremely interdisciplinary synthetic biologist working to build more creative and human futures for biotechnology.

Can't make it in person? Join us virtually with a virtual pass: https://grayareafestival.io

Scholar, author, and professor Shane Denson @shanedenson.bsky.social, is up now discussing the tension between technology’s drive toward perfection and the embodied realities of glitch, detour, and breakdown

Can't make it in person? Join us virtually with a virtual pass: https://grayareafestival.io

Theorizing the installation work I've been doing with the non/phenomenal collective (Brett Amory, Karin Denson,
and me) as a "hodological laboratory" -- drawing on Sartre's theorization of non-Euclidean lived space.

Today (9/13 at 1pm), I'll be talking about "Bodies, Codes, and Hodological Space" at Gray Area Festival in SF!

The cover of the book BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN, with images from the film (showing Frankenstein's monster and the Bride herself) in geometrically arranged and differently colored segments.

"She hate me!" @shanedenson.bsky.social's new monograph on BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN is the first in @leverpress.bsky.social's film/minutes series, giving you a minute-by-minute look at the film and its context.
liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

Out now! Bride of Frankenstein [film|minutes]