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work (selected)
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making &
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poetics







megan j gettecv/bio
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[2026 forthcoming]

editor

Errant Elements Issue 5: the Speculative - Rare Earth Elements





[2026 forthcoming]

essay

tones and textures of knowing between Antarctic architecture, planetary impact events, the memory of water, and fluid dynamics (cracks in drying drops; dripping down the rivulet; emerging strings of fluid pearls)

Submersible Press: Experimental Writing Anthology






[2026]

essay

foams: a minor ethnography of a public hot tub

Annulet Poetics






[in process]

book chapter 

Airglow: on Vagueness and its Delicate Empiricisms 

Towards atmospheric care: undoing environmental violence, experimenting with ecologies of support

eds Tobias Criado and Elisabeth Luggauer 







[in peer review ]

essay 

Informalities: Scoring Ethnography








[2026] 

in review

research article 

Compressibility: Listening with Fractures

/ Unstable Forms: Sensing the Underground and a Politics of Fracture in a US Energy Sacrifice Zone 

research group: Nuclear Undergrounds 






[2027] 

in press 

book chapter 

“unfortunately, when you live out here, all you see is the details”: Indefinite Ruination in the Permian Basin

Writing With Ruins: Embodied Encounters and Creative Narratives

eds. Pablo Arboleda and Isabel Gutiérrez Sánchez

Routledge







[2025]  

peer reviewed 

Wind’s Incoherences: On Listening to Measure

Commoning Ethnography: Experimental Practices





[2026] 

book chapter 

Sour Wind

Ways of Breathing and Knowing: the Politics and Poetics of Air, Atmosphere, and the Body

eds. Nasima Selima and Judith Albrecht

Routledge 






[2025]

chapbook/zine

[tellurium: not nothing]

Errant Elements
eds. Marina Peterson and Gretchen Bakke






[2025] 

book review 

Articulations: On Eleni Stecopoulos’ Dreaming in the Fault Zone

Cleveland Review of Books





[2025] 

book review

What Will Not Cohere: on Valerie Hsuing

Cleveland Review of Books







[2024] 

essay 

air mirrorworld: modes of description

Society for Cultural Anthropology Fieldsights: Art and Ethnographic Forms in Dark Times






[2021] 

soundwork + essay 

air mirrorworld: on wind turbine syndrome and infrasound

Venti: a Journal of Air, Art and Aesthetics - “Senses”






[2020]

ecopoem

HAPPENING, or retractability (undo, un-say).

minor literatures








[2020]

book of ecopoetic essays + performative theory

Majority Reef

Inside the Castle Press







[2018] 

poem

auto-da-fé: confession & camoflague

BAX: Best American Experimental Writing 2020

Black Warrior Review Flash Prose Prize 2018. Judge: Joyelle McSweeney 





[2026

form-less-ness: known things shift in the light or at angles 

[papermaking, folds, fuzzy thinking] 






[2026]


“this word is right but another isn’t” 

[experiments in bioplastic forms, material poetics, the topological] 









[2026] 

“...every drill hole is a question mark”

[40m archival assemblage film + essay]

Archival Intelligence: Epistemic Shifts from Sound to Listening

Bergen Assembly, Norway








[2025]

happening: [the ordinary]

@ The Carnegie 
Notations on Ritual
curated by Sso-Rha Kang

[fluxus and listening scores]






[2024-25]

unstable forms: nuclear wetlands and remediations at Fernald, OH

[experiments in papermaking]







[2024]

hydrodynamic forms

[experiments in cyanotypes]







[2025]

fictions of sameness: West Texas sky 
[experiments in cyanotypes] 






[2025]
between airs
[found object assemblage]






[2024]

sounding lines / a vague machine of no

sound + fiber + found object sculpture installation

Tierras Sonidas/Sonic Rodeo 2024 in Marfa, TX @ Capri






[2024]

interference patterns

[following the concept of line; drawing and being drawn; ham radio transmissions; 

minor ethnographies of encounter and connection] 






[2024]
flows, fields, folds: a compositional kite-method
[what is the flight line of a crumple?]
DIY Low-Carbon Methods Zine Conference. With Claire Fitch and Maria Fernandez Pello





[2024]

details in the air (2024)
detangling bells 2
(2024)
detangling bells (2022) 
hush, wind (2023)
touch points (2022)
silence resignation so much (2021)

[sound compositions]





[2019-2022]

air mirrorworld

[iterative multimodal ethnographies of wind in the Permian Basin]






[2021]  
fragile frontiers: a speculative sound map of oil in wtx in the 1920s

[divining sounds over fake blueprint of oilfields]





[2021]

air-craft #2

[experiments in field recordings; listening with airport noise; a feedback system. With Harrison Montgomery for Phonography Austin, World Listening Day.] 





[2021]

listening to the infra-world

[experiments with EMF sensors; listening with electromagnetism; a parking garage in Austin, TX. With Marina Peterson and Harrison Montgomery] 






[2020]

sound/film: 16m


wind listening

[listening with wind in wtx; foraging for dye plants in Chinchero, Peru; discussing infrastructural encroachment and decimation of dye plants.]   






[2020]

sound/film: 6m

“unfortunately, when you live out here, all you see is the details”

[archival assemblage of home videos of wind turbine shadow-flicker; field recordings] 





[2020]

sound film/sonic fiction: 24m

(hiding): secrets of nature


[archival assemblage film]








[2020]


sound/flim: 40m 

h2o baby: a pipeline to the clouds 

[archival assemblage film]





[2025] 

[“unfortunately, when you live out here, all you see is the details” 

writing]






[listening with thumper trucks or the clouds of Venus with seismic balloons—

“....” ]





[listening with wind in a garage— 

” ...as the wind swirls in it pauses so that there are long moments where air is not sensed at all.”]






[thermophilia— 

”...scattering is an effect of the chemical composition of the atmosphere.“] 





[on the concept of a line — drawing and being drawn — “like a flea, she said...”]





[“an object’s elusivity follows the logic of a body in movement.“]