Jason E Archer

Assistant Professor of Communication and Media Technologies | Department of Humanities | Michigan Technological University

Technology | Touch | Media | Communication

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  • Phantom Figures: Encounters of the Haptic Hologram Kind

    On June 4th I will be presenting on Haptic Holograms from my continued collaboration with Thomas Conner at Sensing/Touching Virtuality in Bochum, Germany. https://www.virtuelle-lebenswelten.de/blog-post/third-annual-conference-sensing-touching-virtuality-02–04-07-2025

  • 3-2-1 CONTACT!: Haptic Holograms and the Programming of touch

    On May 10th, Thomas Conner and I presented our work on haptic holograms at Uncommon Senses V: https://centreforsensorystudies.org/uncommon-senses-v-sensing-the-social-the-environmental-and-across-the-arts-and-sciences/ In the presentation we extended on our published work in the area by considering new case studies and proposed a new theoretical concept, “technical material” to try and account for these emerging media forms. Two technologies are…

  • Tactility & Texture: Embrace at the Interface

    I recently (January 2025) published a chapter in Jaime Banks’ Android, Assembled: The Explicit and Implicit Anatomy of Social Robots published by Peter Lang. The chapter explores how imbuing robots with tactile qualities meant to facilitate more meaningful social interactions often perpetuates normative notions of care, labor, and gender, reinforcing existing relationships of power. If…

  • Haptic Holograms

    My article with Thomas Conner, Haptic Holograms: The Liminal Communication of Emerging Visio-Haptic Apparatuses has been published in a special issue (Media Technologies and Epistemologies: The Platforming of Everything) of the International Journal of Communication: https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/21903 This article interrogates the development of two technologies that have started to converge—midair haptics and holograms—and theorizes that their…

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Jason E Archer