Entitled "The Persistence of Industrial Memory," my paper is a meditation on the social and political significance of the semiotic flotsam of the Machine Age that encrusts the contemporary aesthetic -- cold, hard reminders of the persistence of industrial memory in what is supposed to be an information society.
He has been interviewed on fringe culture and technology by _The Washington Post, _The Washington Times, the Associated Press, the CBC, the Australian Broadcasting Commission's _Peter Jeppesen Program, Jerry Brown's _We, The People, the Web site _HotWired, the electronic bulletin board _ECHO, the German television program _Kultur Report, and the public television series _World: Comm. "Pandemonium," a 1995 episode of the BBC show _Illuminations devoted to cyberpunk machine art, drew heavily on his writings and featured on-camera interviews with Mr. Dery.
In addition, he has sat on cyberculture panels with John Perry Barlow and Jaron Lanier, and has lectured on the subject at universities and artspaces, including New York's School of Visual Arts, NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, New York's Dia center for the Arts, SUNY Stony Brook, Youngstown State University, and Amsterdam's Paradiso (at the _Next Five Minutes: Tactical Media conference).
He is represented by the Linda Chester Literary Agency and is listed in the _Directory of American Poets and Fiction Writers, the _International Authors and Writers Who's Who, and Marquis's _Who's Who in the East.