Kyle Stine is a Media@McGill postdoctoral fellow working within the 2014–2015 theme of Media, Senses, and Sensibilities. He received a PhD in Film Studies from the University of Iowa, specializing in media theory and sound studies within the broader purview of the history and philosophy of technology. His research centers on the interface between culture and technology.
His current book project develops a media archaeology of machine perception, drawing on the histories of cinema, sound media, and phenomenology, together with the engineering fields of machine vision, pattern recognition, and artificial intelligence. Tracking down research leads has led him to the MIT Institute Archives and Special Collections, the MIT Museum, the Kodak Historical Collection, and the Library of Congress. The project has been supported by a Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship, a residency at Iowa’s Obermann Center for Advanced Studies, and currently a Media@McGill postdoctoral fellowship. A window into the historical focus and methods of the project can be found in his recent publication, "The Coupling of Cinematics and Kinematics," Grey Room 56 (Summer 2014), 34–57.