Contributors
- Contributors
Jennifer M. Barker is associate professor (PhD and MA from UCLA, BA from the University of Iowa) in the moving image studies doctoral program of Georgia State University’s Department of Communication. Barker’s research interests include the senses, synaesthesia, and moving images; theories of spectatorship and embodiment; performance; and documentary. She is the author of The Tactile Eye: Touch and the Cinematic Experience (University of California Press, 2009). Her work also appears in the New Review of Film & Television Studies, Cinema Journal, Film-Philosophy, and Paragraph and in recent anthologies on the iPhone, performance theory, and art and the senses.
Janet Cardiff (b. 1957, Brussels, Ontario, Canada) and George Bures Miller (b. 1960, Vegreville, Alberta, Canada) create immersive multimedia works usually involving sound. Recent solo exhibitions include the Art Gallery of Ontario; Akademie der Künste, Berlin; and Luhring Augustine, New York. They participated in dOCUMENTA (13), presenting two new works. Additionally, their work has been presented by several major institutions, including: MOMA, New York; P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York; and the Tate Modern, London. Representing Canada at the 2001 Venice Biennale, they received the Biennale’s Premio Speciale. Cardiff and Miller live and work in British Columbia, Canada and Berlin, Germany.
Hongwei Thorn Chen is a PhD candidate in the Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of [End Page 288] Minnesota–Twin Cities. His dissertation examines the function of education as an aesthetic and institutional framework in Chinese cinema from the 1930s to the 1960s.
Jon Inge Faldalen is a permanent lecturer and a PhD candidate in the Department of Media and Communication at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Oslo, Norway, where he teaches courses in film history, film theory, alternative film, and audiovisual aesthetics. His doctoral dissertation, titled “Still Einstellung: Stillmoving Imagenesis” (2014), examines the aesthetics of stillness in moving images through conceptualizing and theory-building analyses of works of Auguste and Louis Lumière, Bill Viola, and David Claerbout. Faldalen’s long-standing research prism is what he calls the still Einstellung (i.e., a fixed frame or static camera shot).
Anu Koivunen is professor of cinema studies in the Department of Media Studies at Stockholm University. She has written on Finnish cinema and television history and feminist film theory, and she is currently writing Moving Experiences: Affective Turns in Cinema and Media Studies and Vulnerability: Rethinking Representation, Politics and Materialism. Recent publications include “Force of Affects, Weight of Histories in Love Is a Treasure (2002)” in Carnal Aesthetics: Transgressive Body Imagery and Feminist Politics, edited by Bettina Papenburg and Marta Zarzycka (London: I. B. Tauris, 2013); “Talking Heads, Imagined Communities: Steam of Life and the Affective Politics of Intimate Documentary,” Journal of Scandinavian Cinema 2, no. (2012); “Yes We Can? The Promises of Affect for Queer Scholarship,” Lambda Nordica, nos. 3–4 (2010); and “An Affective Turn? Reimagining the Subject of Feminist Theory,” in Working with Affect in Feminist Readings: Disturbing Differences, edited by Marianne Liljeström and Susanna Paasonen (Routledge, 2010).
Florian Leitner studied theater and film in Munich and Paris and worked as an assistant director and a dramatic adviser. After graduating in 2004 and working as a screenwriter for three years, he became a fellow at the doctoral school Bild Körper Medium (Image Body Medium) at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design in 2007. Since 2008, he has been an editor of kunsttexte.de, E-journal on Visual and Art History. From 2011 to 2013, Leitner worked as an assistant professor at Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Düsseldorf. In 2013 he finished his dissertation on media anxiety and media horror films, supervised by Gertrud Koch at Freie Universität, Berlin. Since then Leitner has been working as an assistant professor in film studies at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich. [End Page 289]
Bettina Papenburg is senior researcher at the Institute for Media and Cultural Studies at Heinrich-Heine-University in Dusseldorf, Germany. She received her PhD in Social and Cultural Anthropology from the University of Heidelberg, Germany, and was Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the Research Institute for History and Culture at Utrecht University, the Netherlands, 2009–11. Papenburg’s...
