This is the first of a series of four episodes focused on sound, media, and art, in which Caitlin Woolsey (Manton Postdoctoral Fellow in the Research and Academic Program at the Clark Art Institute) speaks with Brian Michael Murphy, a writer and media archaeologist who is a faculty member in media studies at Bennington College. Brian explores intersections between race and the materiality of media, and examines how media technologies—from taxidermy to photography archives and the preservation of big data infrastructure—represent and reshape human experience.