~/jeffreymoro/research

My CV is available here. If you’re unable to access any of my articles, please write me and I’d be happy to share a copy.

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My current book project is titled Cloud Studies. It’s about the mediation of the atmosphere as data, as articulated through readings of contemporary media arts and allied scientific practices. Each chapter of the book corresponds to one of the five meteorological layers of the atmosphere — the troposphere at Earth’s surface, the stratosphere, the mesosphere, the ionosphere and thermosphere, and finally the exosphere at the edges of outer space. In each, I analyze works of computational media art that engage atmospheric data — from electronic weather diaries to climate simulation games, natural radio soundscapes to machine vision algorithms for meteor detection — arguing across the book that we have come in our present moment to imagine the atmosphere as a computer, one that we hope to program as a way out of climate change.

I’m also developing a second book project on the media history of the almanac: I’m interested in the almanac’s role in the long history of environmental data, as a technology of prediction, and how it helps us think about intersections between the occult and “legitimate” science.

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• Sensing Sferics. Project director, 2023 – present. An environmental media lab about the scientific and artistic practice of listening to radio atmospheric signals (or “sferics”) released by phenomena such as lightning and aurora. Lab activities include taking recordings of sferics from sites across the Eastern Shore of Maryland and the Mid-Atlantic and workshops on DIY radio and listening practices. https://sferics.jeffreymoro.com/
• Immersive Realities Labs for the Humanities (irLh). Co-founder, 2015 – present. A research collective of digital and experimental workgroups in the humanities, arts, and creative technologies. https://irlhumanities.org/

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• “Counting Feeling: Affect Theory and Sentiment Analysis in TextBlob.” Forthcoming. Digital Humanities Quarterly. Special issue on “Critical Code Studies,” eds. Mark Marino and Jeremy Douglass.
• “Measuring the Sky from the Curve of the Earth.” 2025. Media Matters in Landscape Architecture, eds. Karen M’Closkey and Keith VanDerSys. San Francisco: Applied Research and Design Publishing, pp. 30–41. https://appliedresearchanddesign.com/product/media-matters-in-landscape-architecture
• “Introduction: Algorithms and the Occult.” 2025. ASAP/J. Special research cluster on “Algorithms and the Occult,” eds. Tamara Kneese, Jeffrey Moro, and Briana Vecchione. https://asapjournal.com/node/algorithms-and-the-occult-or-chatbots-are-the-new-psychic-friends-network/
• “As Above, So Below: Astrological Data in the Age of Co–Star.” 2025. ASAP/J. Special research cluster on “Algorithms and the Occult,” eds. Tamara Kneese, Jeffrey Moro, and Briana Vecchione. https://appliedresearchanddesign.com/product/media-matters-in-landscape-architecture
• “Sensing Sferics: Electromagnetic Noise and Environmental Signal.” 2024. Journal of Environmental Media. Special issue on “Sensing + Elementality,” eds. Nick Silcox, Rafico Ruiz, and Max Ritts, vol. 5, no. 1. https://doi.org/10.1386/jem_00118_1.
• “Review of Climatic Media: Transpacific Experiments in Atmospheric Control, by Yuriko Furuhata.” 2023. Journal of Environmental Media, vol. 4, no. 1. https://doi.org/10.1386/jem_00102_5.
• “Air-conditioning the Internet: Data Center Securitization as Atmospheric Media.” 2021. Media Fields, Special issue on “Life Cycles,” eds. Miguel Penabella and Amaru Tejada, no. 16. http://mediafieldsjournal.org/air-conditioning-the-internet/.
• “Collective Tissue.” 2021. Qui Parle, vol. 30, no. 1. Special Forum: Breath / Inhale : Exhale. https://doi.org/10.1215/10418385-8955857
• “Review of Lightning Birds: An Aeroecology of the Airwaves, by Jacob Smith.” 2021. ISLE, vol. 28, no. 4. https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.11714652.
• “Grid Techniques for a Planet in Crisis: The Infrastructures of Weather Prediction.” 2020. Amodern, vol. 9: Techniques and Technologies, ed. Grant Wythoff. https://amodern.net/article/grid-techniques/.
• “Dance Apocalyptic: Tim Maughan’s Infinite Detail and Media after the Internet.” 26 Oct 2019. Los Angeles Review of Books. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/dance-apocalyptic-tim-maughans-infinite-detail-and-media-after-the-internet/.
• “Weird Ways of Seeing: Patrick Nagatani’s Nuclear Vision.” 2 June 2018. Los Angeles Review of Books. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/weird-ways-of-seeing-patrick-nagatanis-nuclear-vision/.

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• “Episode 02: Algorithms, Co–Star, & the Occult (with Jeffrey Moro).” 2025. Guest speaker on Love + Machines podcast, hosted by Julia Park with support from the Critical Futures & Creative Labor research cluster at the University of Toronto. https://love-machines.simplecast.com/episodes/episode-02-algorithms-co-star-the-occult-with-jeffrey-moro-mIT0jou7

> ls recent-conference-presentations/

• “Simulation Games in the Stratosphere.” 2025. Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SMCS). Chicago, IL.
• “As Above, So Below: Astrological Data in the Age of Co–Star.” 2024. Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present (ASAP). Manhattan, NY.
• “Sensing Sferics: Electromagnetic Noise and Environmental Signal.” 2024. Digital Dialogue series by the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH). College Park, MD. Invited Talk.
• “The Dawn Chorus.” 2023. Modernist Studies Association. Brooklyn, NY. Workshop Paper.
• “Cutting the Feeling: Affect and Digital Memory in the ‘Storm Data and Unusual Weather Phenomena’ Database.” 2021. Society for the Social Study of Science (4S). Virtual.
• “Air Under Lockdown: Temperature and Security in the Global Data Center.” SCMS. 2021. Virtual.
• “Time is a Difference of Pressure: Breath as Environmental Media in Ted Chiang’s ‘Exhalation.’” 2021. Modern Language Association (MLA). Virtual