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DESCRIPTION:Join THE ARTS AT LAFAYETTE for the Arts\, Democracy\, and Techn
 ology Forum with  \nProf. Shannon Mattern. Mattern will give a talk entitl
 ed 'Manual Not  \nIncluded: The Limits of Repair.' Mattern is the Director
  of Creative  \nResearch at the Metropolitan New York Library Council\, a 
 state-founded\,  \nmember-supported\, non-profit network connecting hundre
 ds of libraries and  \narchives. In Spring 2025\, she was the Kluge Chair 
 in Modern Culture at the  \nLibrary of Congress\, a position nominated by 
 the Librarian of Congress  \nherself\; and in Summer 2025\, she was invite
 d to serve as the Designer  \nIndexer in residence at the Cooper Hewitt\, 
 Smithsonian Design Museum.\n\n \n\nMattern has held tenured full professor
 ships in three fields: media studies\,  \nanthropology\, and art history. 
 Her writing and teaching focus on archives\,  \nlibraries\, and other medi
 a spaces\; media infrastructures\; sites where data  \nintersect with art 
 and design\; and media that shape our sensory experiences.  \nShe is the a
 uthor of four books: The New Downtown Library: Designing with  \nCommuniti
 es\; Deep Mapping the Media City\; and Code and Clay\, Dirt and Data:  \n5
 000 Years of Urban Media (winner of the Anne Friedberg Innovative  \nSchol
 arship Award from the Society for Cinema and Media Studies and the  \nDoro
 thy Lee Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Culture from  
 \nthe Media Ecology Association)\, all published by the University of Minn
 esota  \nPress\; and A City Is Not a Computer\, published by Princeton Uni
 versity Press  \nin 2021. She has also (co-)edited four collections on urb
 an technology and  \nquotidian media practices (“Media Study Beyond Media 
 Studies: Pandemic  \nLessons for an Evolving Field\,” “Digital Frictions” 
 (with Mariana  \nMogilevich and Josh McWhirter)\, How to Run a City Like A
 mazon (with Mark  \nGraham\, Rob Kitchin\, and Joe Shaw)\, and “Notes\, Li
 sts & Everyday  \nInscriptions“). She has published over 100 articles and 
 book chapters about  \na range of topics — from experimental libraries\, g
 eo-archives\, deep-time  \ndocument preservation\, lichen typography\, and
  “tree thinking” to local  \ndata stewardship\, public design processes\, 
 pneumatic tubes\, field guides\,  \nrepair manuals\, and dashboards. Most 
 of this work appears in open-access  \nvenues\, including a regular long-f
 orm column about urban data and mediated  \ninfrastructures for Places\, a
  journal focusing on architecture\, urbanism\,  \nand landscape. 
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LOCATION:Williams Center for the Arts | Room 108
SUMMARY:The Arts\, Technology\, and Democracy Spring 2026 Forum: Shannon Ma
 ttern\,  \n'Manual Not Included: The Limits of Repair'
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