Contact
| Dept: | World Languages And Cultures |
| Email: | rbanerji@iastate.edu |
| Office: | 3238 Pearson |
| Phone: | N/A |
| Website: | ritwikbanerji.net |
| Vita: | https://iastate.box.com/s/rlggd1qfj8j697osaz08jf551bwhuc0j |
Bio
Ritwik Banerji is an experimental ethnographer, interactive media artist, and saxophonist. His work focuses on the development and use of artificial intelligence as a technology for ethnographic depiction, performance, and elicitation. He is currently writing a monograph on the relationship between freedom and knowledge in the contemporary musical practice of free improvisation drawing on several years of ethnographic fieldwork in Berlin, Chicago, and the San Francisco Bay Area.
Banerji received his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley in music with a designated emphasis in new media. His writings appear in Anthropology in Action, New Directions in Third Wave Human-Computer Interaction, the Oxford Handbook of the Phenomenology of Music Cultures, Jazz and Culture, and Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference, and Jazz Perspectives.
As an artist, Banerji has presented his work at Experimental Intermedia (NYC), Ausland (Berlin), Elastic Arts (Chicago), and the Center for the Arts at Wesleyan University. Through his creative work, he has collaborated with Tony Malaby, Axel Dörner, Rob Frye, Ben Lamar Gay, Theresa Wong, Liz Allbee, Joel Grip, Matthias Müller, and Tritha Sinha.
Grants and Awards
- Fulbright U.S. Young Journalist Fellowship: Germany
- Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies
- Berkeley-Mellon Fellowship
Recent / Major Publications
- 2023. “Artificial Intelligence, Humanness, and Nonverbal Sociality.” Anthropology in Action. Special Issue: Entangling Data and Entangling Disciplines: The Future of Anthropological Collaborations with Data Scientists. ed. Roberta Raffaetà, Giovanna Santanera, and Francesca Esposito.
- 2023. “Free Improvisation, Egalitarianism, and Knowledge.” Jazz Perspectives.