{"@attributes":{"version":"2.0"},"channel":{"title":"Emma Kemp","link":"https:\/\/emmakemp.com","description":"Emma Kemp","pubDate":"Sun, 26 Jan 2025 23:56:22 +0000","generator":"https:\/\/emmakemp.com","language":"en","item":[{"title":"about","link":"https:\/\/emmakemp.com\/about","pubDate":"Sat, 25 Jan 2025 17:13:02 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/emmakemp.com\/about","description":"EMMA KEMP is a British nonfiction writer and media researcher based in Los Angeles. Her work in narrative documentary explores relationships between environment, sub\/culture, and media, with an emphasis on anti-colonial and more-than-human frameworks. At the forefront of Environmental Media Studies, Emma\u2019s interdisciplinary practice negotiates emerging technologies in service of ecological and cultural conservation.  \n\n\nEmma is co-founder of Concerning Landscape, a non-profit research organization whose major project, No Canyon Hills (NCH) is a multiform entity forged in solidarity with the plant and animal communities of the Verdugo Mountains\u2014ancestral land and unceded territory of the Fernande\u00f1o Tataviam Band of Mission Indians and the Gabrieleno (Tongva) Band of Mission Indians\u2014that deploys cooperative actions and interventionist strategies across social, political, educational and legislative registers to investigate land use. Alongside NCH, Concerning Landscape oversees Bakersfield, a reparative earthwork and eco-media design studio led by Emma Kemp & Mateo Altman.\n\n\nEmma is represented by Alison Lewis at Frances Goldin Literary Agency. Her forthcoming book of cultural criticism, At The Bottom of Everything, is an authorized biography of the musical artist Conor Oberst, examining the influence of the millennial media landscape on artistry and fandom. ATBOE will be published in 2026-7 by Grand Central (US) and Penguin (UK\/Commonwealth).\n\n\nEmma is a full-time Assistant Professor at Otis College of Art & Design, where she teaches courses in Transmedia Documentary, Writing in the Post-Digital Age, Contemporary Practice, and more.\n\n\nShe holds a BFA from Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts, London, and an MFA in Writing & Critical Studies from California Institute of the Arts.\nEmma has received numerous grants, awards, and fellowships for her work, including a Metabolic Studio\/Annenberg Foundation Grant, Utah Humanities Fellowship, and more. Her work as NCH has been written about in the L.A. Times, KCAL, KPCC, and various other print and broadcast platforms."},{"title":"ATBOE","link":"https:\/\/emmakemp.com\/ATBOE","pubDate":"Sat, 25 Jan 2025 17:16:58 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/emmakemp.com\/ATBOE","description":"At The Bottom of Everything: Conor Oberst and our Dystopian Digital Age\nPublisher\nGrand Central; Penguin (2026\/7)\n\n\nDetails\nThe first and only authorized biography of the artist Conor Oberst (Bright Eyes; Desaparecidos) by Emma Kemp.\nPressThe Bookseller\n"},{"title":"REMOTE","link":"https:\/\/emmakemp.com\/REMOTE","pubDate":"Sun, 26 Jan 2025 15:52:27 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/emmakemp.com\/REMOTE","description":"Remote Control\nPublisher\nEast of Borneo Books, 2019\nDetailsRemote*Control is an assemblage of essays, email diaries, experimental syllabi, memes, and observations produced by artist faculty at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Classical typography collides with remnants of video conferencing interfaces, text glitches, and illustration to evoke the disorienting, ad hoc experience of learning and teaching in the COVID era and its subsequent erosion of institutional norms and control. These illustrations shift in resolution as bodies of water diffuse into droplets then congeal into typographic forms. The book was digitally printed with neon pink ink swapped in for the magenta channel, resulting in glowing, saturated imagery reminiscent of on screen color. \nEdited by Emma Kemp and Adriana Widdoes.\nDesigned by Elana Schlenker with \u00c9lise Rigollet and Mimi Jiao.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n"},{"title":"BLUE POOL","link":"https:\/\/emmakemp.com\/BLUE-POOL","pubDate":"Sat, 25 Jan 2025 19:47:21 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/emmakemp.com\/BLUE-POOL","description":"Blue Pool, Cecelia\nPublisherImage Text Ithaca Press, 2018\n Details\n\nIn June 2017, ITI Press sent writer Emma Kemp and Walters\u2013who had never met\u2013on assignment to Walters\u2019 hometown, a place \u201cwith a history of extraction, a town defined by its water\u2026 a leaky town in which the cycle of swelling and breaching initiates structural deformations.\u201d Mining newspaper records and bar-stool conversations, Kemp\u2019s writing careens along a damaged trajectory of women\u2019s lives lived along the margins of the Mississippi. Equal parts travelogue, true crime drama and artist\u2019s portrait, Kemp\u2019s riveting and genre-bending text reveals how, in Walters\u2019 photographs, \u201ctime shoves itself backwards and forwards, a crooked tideline extending through each girl and woman.\u201d\n\n\nPressThe New Yorker\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n"},{"title":"ROCKHAVEN","link":"https:\/\/emmakemp.com\/ROCKHAVEN","pubDate":"Sat, 25 Jan 2025 19:47:02 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/emmakemp.com\/ROCKHAVEN","description":"Rockhaven: a History of InteriorsPublisherWhich Witch, 2017\nDetailsA collection of essays inspired by Rockhaven Sanitarium, Crescenta Valley's proto-feminist psychiatric institution founded in 1923. Featuring contributions from writers Allison Noelle Conner, Emma Kemp, Orenda Fink, Johanna Hedva, Suzanne Scanlon, Mady Schutzman, and Adriana Widdoes.\nCurated and Edited by Emma Kemp and Adriana Widdoes.\nDesigned by Elana Schlenker.\nDigital Photography by Bridget Batch.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n"},{"title":"STUDIO BAKERSFIELD","link":"https:\/\/emmakemp.com\/STUDIO-BAKERSFIELD","pubDate":"Sat, 25 Jan 2025 19:48:14 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/emmakemp.com\/STUDIO-BAKERSFIELD","description":"STUDIO BAKERSFIELDis a reparative earthwork and eco-media design studio cofounded by Emma Kemp and Mateo Altman. SB integrates research and practice relating to regenerative systems, landscape design, urban planning, and animal architectures in service of ecosystem health and planetary resilience.https:\/\/bakersfield.studio\/"},{"title":"NCH","link":"https:\/\/emmakemp.com\/NCH","pubDate":"Sun, 26 Jan 2025 18:15:14 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/emmakemp.com\/NCH","description":"NO CANYON HILLS (NCH)\nis a community coalition and multiform entity forged in solidarity with Verdugo Mountains in Tovaangar, Los Angeles.https:\/\/nocanyonhills.org\/\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n"},{"title":"PUMACAM","link":"https:\/\/emmakemp.com\/PUMACAM","pubDate":"Sun, 26 Jan 2025 23:56:22 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/emmakemp.com\/PUMACAM","description":"PUMACAMis a project that aggregates public surveillance recordings to track the movement of the threatened California Cougar (Puma concolor) in the Northeast San Fernando Valley.\nhttps:\/\/pumacam.com\/"},{"title":"editorial","link":"https:\/\/emmakemp.com\/editorial-1","pubDate":"Mon, 18 May 2020 18:08:22 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/emmakemp.com\/editorial-1","description":"\n\tSelected Publications, Interviews, etc.Selling Altadena: Notes on the AI-assisted Marketing of Altadena\u2019s Burn Zone, 2025\nExperiments in Cohabitation, MAK Center\/Schindler House, 2024\n\nLos Angeles Festival of Movies w\/Alison C. Nguyn, Ren Ebel, Mike Stoltz, 2024\n\nPlace Settings No. 6, \u2018Only Fans\u2019, 2024 \nFrom Earthwork to Test Plot for Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles Issue 36\nMemory Arcade Dream Space or Continuous Sidewalk for X-TRA Online\n\nBlind Dates & Reunions with Whitney Hubbs, Claudia Rankine & more\n\nBarbara T. Smith \u201cThe Way to Be\u201d Getty Center, Los Angeles for Flash ArtOn Mark Alice Durant\u2019s \u201cMaya Deren\u201d for Los Angeles Review of Books\n\u201cFull Stop Call Them Paintings\u201d for X-TRA Online \n\u201cOut Past the Eye-Mark\u201d for X-TRA Spring\/Summer 2021\nThe Rise of the Clickbait Restaurant (The Culture Journalist Podcast)\n\u201cWhen you cut into the present, the future leaks out.\u201d for X-TRA Online\nLittle House of Flowers: Al Larvick National Grant\n\u201cAUTOFICCI\u00d3N Laida Lertxundi + Emma Kemp In Conversation,\u201d Now Instant \nUrgency Reader 1 & 2 edited by Paul Soulellis\n\nREMOTE\/CONTROL, East of Borneo \n\u201cGUSHGUSHGUSH,\u201d Reading Machines by Tiger Dingsun\n\nGhost Ops: Counterfeit Kitchens in the Pandemic Age (PDF)\n\n\u201cWednesdays at 5PM,\u201d iTi Thesis SamplerBlue Pool, Cecelia (iTi Press, 2018) \nRockhaven: A History of Interiors feat. Johanna Hedva and Suzanne Scanlon\n\n\n"},{"title":"contact","link":"https:\/\/emmakemp.com\/contact","pubDate":"Sat, 25 Jan 2025 19:21:11 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/emmakemp.com\/contact","description":"Research \nekemp@calarts.edu\nMedia Inquirieswritetoeek@gmail.com\nRights \natl@goldinlit.com"}]}}