AADHum faculty member Dr. Jeffrey Moro capped off the spring 2024 Digital Dialogues speaker series in MITH with a talk on environmental humanities. Titled “Sensing Sferics: Electronic Noise and Environmental Signal,” Dr. Moro’s talk explored radio atmospheric signals — natural radio waves emitted by lightning that bounce around the Earth’s atmosphere — and how media artists have drawn on them to make different kinds of sonic and computer art. Attendees learned about the history of listening to these strange, unearthly sounds — and even got to hear some of them themselves that Dr. Moro captured in field work.

Watch Dr. Moro’s talk, along with other talks in the Digital Dialogue series, at the MITH Vimeo channel!