The first Media in Transition conference was held in 1999 and marked the launch of the MIT graduate program in Comparative Media Studies. Since then, four bi-annual conferences have been held
"I decided that I would record as many conference talks as I could, in order to archive them for future generations. I now see that as a duty in conferences that I attend. Up until now, some 22 conferences comprising with some 400 presentations have been recorded by myself..."