Laura U. Marks
Laura U. Marks is a researcher on media ecology, non-Western media histories, experimental cinema, Islamic philosophy, Arab cinema, aesthetics, and embodiment. Her books are The Fold: From Your Body to the Cosmos (Duke, 2024), Hanan al-Cinema: Affections for the Moving Image (MIT, 2015), Enfoldment and Infinity: An Islamic Genealogy of New Media Art (MIT, 2010), Touch: Sensuous Theory and Multisensory Media (Minnesota, 2002), and The Skin of the Film: Intercultural Cinema, Embodiment, and the Senses (Duke, 2000). She leads research on the carbon footprint of streaming media and 2020 she founded the Small File Media Festival, which celebrates movies that stream at extremely low bitrate. With Azadeh Emadi she co-founded the Substantial Motion Research Network of artists and scholars working on non-Western approaches to media. She programs experimental media art for venues around the world. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, she teaches in the School for the Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver. (2024)
- Interviews
- Monika Jaeckel, "Inherent Latency of Embodiment. Interview with Laura U.Marks", GAP, Nov 2004.
- Nat Muller, "Interview with Laura U. Marks", Metropolis M, 24 Aug 2008.
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