Rob is a founding DJ at KDZU, a radio station broadcasting from Los Angeles, Goldfield, and other undisclosed sites across the globe. KDZU mixes tactical mythmaking and music to explore new strategies of resistance and imagine new ways of living and connecting. He is also a senior researcher of Shadow Mountain, an art collective focused on site-specific, research-based storytelling. Rob is an Associate Professor of Design at CSU San Bernardino and was previously the lead designer for ProtoSpace, NASA JPL’s mixed-reality collaboration platform for space mission engineering.
“At CultureHub I’ll be developing an augmented reality (AR)-based, site-specific DJ setup that highlights deejaying as an expanded media practice and tactical mythmaking system. I’ll be exploring fictional narratives and electronic music as tools for cultural critique and imagining new futures. Over the past four years, I have been developing KDZU as a project that intertwines autofictional histories with DIY/DIT collectivities, robotics, and space exploration. I’m also a primary investigator for KDZU’s research team. We’re committed to sharing the history of OMSA [Of Memory, Silence, and Artifacts], an anarcho-collectivist group from Memphis, Tennessee, which was raided in 1994.”