Recently Visiting Fellow Center For Transformative Media, Parsons--The New School of Design, I am an independent scholar living in Pittsburgh, and a contributor to the think tank New Centre for Research and Practice (http://thenewcentre.org/). I write about the history of "emergence" or self-organization; about competing models of time and the ideological, aesthetic, social and political stakes of dominance and resistance--especially Fascism; embodied and distributed cognition and the arts. I have focused particularly the novels of Thomas Pynchon, the drama of Samuel Beckett, the visual art of Marcel Duchamp, Joseph Beuys, Robert Smithson and Kiki Smith, the architecture of Arakawa and Gins, and jazz performance. I am completing a book on "Jazz and Emergence," currently writing about jazz improvisation as illustrative of a relationship between embodied and distributed cognition. In the past few years, I have given talksat the Universities of Amsterdam, Koln, Manchester Metropolitan, Utrecht,Chicago. As a theorist I'm also interested in the agency of metaphor in trans-disciplinary inquiry, drawing on the work of Bruno Latour, Peter Galison and Gilles Deleuze. I also play jazz guitar, having trained at The Berklee College of Music, and performed professionally from 1974-80. I have written numerous jazz compositions over the years, and am beginning to perform again in the Pittsburgh area, a jazz town, rich and deep in history and talent. A good place to start if you are interested in my research is: http://independent.academia.edu/martinerosenberg/I have had a sideline in Hypermedia, HCI and Interaction-Design. You can see a list of these publications at: http://www.interaction-design.org/references/authors/martin_e__rosenberg.html two of which have been translated.

With Jondi Keane of Griffith University, Brisbane AU, I co-directed the first completely digital global humanities conference-- AG3-Online: The Third International Arakawa and Gins: Architecture and Philosophy Conference -- which ran from March 12-26, 2010 with concluding celebrations at Barnard College April 30, and The Solomon Guggenheim Museum, May 1.