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Douglas Kahn is Professor of Media and Innovation at the National Institute for Experimental Arts at the University of New South Wales, Australia and a fellow with the Australian Research Council. He was the Founding Director of Technocultural Studies and is Professor Emeritus in Science and Technology Studies at the University of California, Davis. Kahn is known primarily for his writings on the use of sound in the avant-garde and experimental arts and music, and history and theory of the media arts. His writings have also been influential in the scholarly area of sound studies and the practical area of sound art. His best known book Noise, Water, Meat: A History of Sound in the Arts was published by MIT Press in 1999. The Times Literary Supplement called the book "an impressive combination of solid academic research and theoretical pyrotechnics."
Since 2002 he has researched naturally occurring electromagnetism in science and the arts, a topic for which he received a 2006–2007 Guggenheim Fellowship. This research has led to his most recent book Earth Sound Earth Signal: Energies and Earth Magnitude in the Arts published in 2013 by University of California Press. This book was supported by a 2008 Arts Writers Grant from Creative Capital and the Warhol Foundation.
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