Dr. tobias c. van Veen is Research Fellow in Media and Cultural Studies at University of California Riverside. He holds doctorates in Communication Studies and Philosophy from McGill University. His teaching and research addresses philosophy of race, sound, and technology in media and cultural studies. He has published on the ethics and politics of posthumanism, Afrofuturism, sonic materialism, and electronic dance music cultures (EDMC). Tobias is co-editor with Reynaldo Anderson of the “Black Lives, Black Politics, Black Futures” special issue of TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies (2018), editor of the Afrofuturism special issue of Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture (2013), and co-editor with Hillegonda Rietveld of the Journal’s special issue “Echoes from the Dub Diaspora” (2015). A sound/media artist, filmmaker, photojournalist, and tactical turntablist since 1993, tobias has exhibited and curated interventions, events, and broadcasts worldwide, working with galleries and festivals from Montréal to NYC, Amsterdam to Vancouver. He is Director of the Afrofuturist documentary short film LOST ALIEN (2018), distributed by Cinema Politica, featuring Los Angeles cosplayer ZiggZaggerZ as a photosensitive black alien stranded on a sunlit planet. Tobias hosts the Other Planes: Afro/Futurism podcast on CreativeDisturbance.org, is creative director of sound-art label IOSOUND.ca, and broadcasts techno-turntablist mixes on soundcloud.com/djtobias. An award-winning broadcaster and photojournalist, his creative and professional photography can be found on Instagram @fugitivephilo. http://tobiascvanveen.ca
