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Steve F. Anderson | |
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| Born | 1963 (age 60–61) |
| Nationality | American |
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| Alma mater | USC School of Cinematic Arts, California Institute of the Arts |
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| Discipline | Digital Media |
| Institutions | UCLA School of Theater,Film and Television |
| Website | www |
Steve F. Anderson is an American academic. He is a professor of digital media at the UCLA School of Theater,Film and Television. He was previously an associate professor in the USC Interactive Media &Games Division.
Anderson received his Master of Fine Arts in Film and Video from CalArts in 1990 and his Ph.D. in 2001 from the Film,Literature &Culture program at the University of Southern California under the direction of Professors David E. James,Marita Sturken,and Leo Braudy.
Anderson known for his contributions to the fields of digital humanities,scholarly electronic publishing,fair use advocacy and technocultural studies.
He served as founding director of the Ph.D. program in Media Arts and Practice at the USC School of Cinematic Arts. He co-edits the interdisciplinary electronic journal Vectors Journal of Culture and Technology in a Dynamic Vernacular and is the founder of Critical Commons,an online media archive and fair use advocacy network. He is author of the books Technologies of Vision:The War Between Data and Images (MIT 2018) and Technologies of History:Visual Media and the Eccentricity of the Past (Dartmouth 2011). With Christie Milliken he is co-editor of the anthology Reclaiming Popular Documentary (Indiana University Press 2021),which won the award for Best Edited Collection from the Popular Culture Association in 2022. [1]
Technologies of History marks an intervention in the academic sub-field of Film and History,which has largely focused on the accuracy and verifiability of cinematic and televisual history,especially in the genres of documentary and historical epics. [2] Anderson's book advocates consideration of the historiographical value of non-traditional (what he terms "eccentric") forms of visual history including experimental film and video,fake documentary,found footage,science fiction time travel and digital games. D. L. LeMahieu's book review in the journal Film &History notes that "Anderson’s validation of the idiosyncratic and experimental opens new areas of research and analysis for historians." [3]
In 2007,Anderson and Holly Willis won a HASTAC/MacArthur Foundation Digital Media and Learning grant to create CriticalCommons.org,public media archive. [4]
In 2014-15 he received a prestigious Digital Innovation Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) to support his project "Technologies of Cinema:A Critical Digital Archive and Multimodal History of the American Technocultural Imaginary." [5]
The University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts (SCA) houses seven academic divisions:Film &Television Production;Cinema &Media Studies;John C. Hench Division of Animation + Digital Arts;John Wells Division of Writing for Screen &Television;Interactive Media &Games;Media Arts + Practice;Peter Stark Producing Program.
Film studies is an academic discipline that deals with various theoretical,historical,and critical approaches to cinema as an art form and a medium. It is sometimes subsumed within media studies and is often compared to television studies.
Visual anthropology is a subfield of social anthropology that is concerned,in part,with the study and production of ethnographic photography,film and,since the mid-1990s,new media. More recently it has been used by historians of science and visual culture. Although sometimes wrongly conflated with ethnographic film,visual anthropology encompasses much more,including the anthropological study of all visual representations such as dance and other kinds of performance,museums and archiving,all visual arts,and the production and reception of mass media. Histories and analyses of representations from many cultures are part of visual anthropology:research topics include sandpaintings,tattoos,sculptures and reliefs,cave paintings,scrimshaw,jewelry,hieroglyphics,paintings and photographs. Also within the province of the subfield are studies of human vision,properties of media,the relationship of visual form and function,and applied,collaborative uses of visual representations.
Lev Manovich is an artist,an author and a theorist of digital culture. He is a Distinguished Professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Manovich played a key role in creating four new research fields:new media studies (1991-),software studies (2001-),cultural analytics (2007-) and AI aesthetics (2018-). Manovich's current research focuses on generative media,AI culture,digital art,and media theory.
Dennis Muren,A.S.C is an American film visual effects artist and supervisor. He has worked on the films of George Lucas,Steven Spielberg,and James Cameron,among others,and has won nine Oscars in total:eight for Best Visual Effects and a Technical Achievement Academy Award. The Visual Effects Society has called him "a perpetual student,teacher,innovator,and mentor."
Mariano "Mar" Elepaño is a Filipino American independent filmmaker,teacher,and has been the production supervisor of the John C. Hench Division of Animation and Digital Arts,USC School of Cinematic Arts since 1993.
Technoculture is a neologism that is not in standard dictionaries but that has some popularity in academia,popularized by editors Constance Penley and Andrew Ross in a book of essays bearing that title. It refers to the interactions between,and politics of,technology and culture.
Nicholas J. Cull is a historian and professor in the Master's in Public Diplomacy program at the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California. He was the founding director of this program and ran it from 2005 to 2019.
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Leslie Iwerks is an American producer,director,and writer. She is daughter of Disney Legend Don Iwerks and granddaughter of Disney Legend Ub Iwerks,the animator and co-creator of Mickey Mouse and Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. She has directed films including Recycled Life which was nominated for an Academy Award and The Pixar Story which was nominated for an Emmy for best nonfiction special.
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Marsha Kinder is an American film scholar and Professor of Critical Studies at the University of Southern California.
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