Faculty in the Cinema and Digital Media Program are listed here,
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Stephanie Boluk is an associate professor in Cinema and
Digital Media and English. Research areas include game
studies, game design, media studies, computer history, and
electronic literature.
Research focus: Histories and theories of technology;
history of computing (pre- and post-electronic), networking,
early programming, cryptography; hacking and hacker culture, free
and open source software; failed technologies, vaporware,
theories of hype, dead media, abandoned infrastructure;
transhumanism, cosmism, cryonics, Extropians; surveillance and
privacy; currencies, cryptocurrencies, transaction and payment
systems, debt, alternative and experimental currencies; history
of capitalism, socialist calculation problem, Cybersyn, autonomy,
workerism/operaismo; ancient technologies
Jesse Drew’s research and practice centers on alternative and
community media and their impact on democratic societies, with a
particular emphasis on the global working class. His audio-visual
work, represented by Video Data Bank, has been exhibited at
festivals and in galleries internationally. His current film
project is Open Country, a feature documentary on the politics of
American Country music.
Kris Fallon is a film and digital media scholar whose research
focuses on non-fiction visual culture across a range of
platforms, from still photography to data visualization.
Ph.D. Cornell UniversityResearch Interests: Film and media studies, German literature, Intellectual history
Currently the Director of the Davis Humanities Institute, Jaimey
Fisher is Associate Professor of German and Cinema and Digital
Media. He studied German literature and thought at Stanford
University, at the Freie Universität Berlin, and at Cornell
University.
Ph.D. Media Arts and Sciences, Duke UniversityM.F.A. Digital Media Art, University of Florida, GainsvilleB.E.D. Visualization Science, College of Architecture, Texas A&M University
Patrick LeMieux is a media artist, game designer, electronic
musician, and Associate Professor in the Cinema and Digital Media
Department. His research focuses on game studies, media theory,
audio production, and artmaking to explore the material practices
and community histories of play, from speedrunning and esports to
modular synthesis and installation art.
Ph.D. History & Philosophy of Science, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 1974B.A. Integrated Liberal Arts, St. Mary's College, Moraga, CA, 1970
Tim Lenoir is a Distinguished Professor in the Cinema and Digital
Media Program. He has published several books and articles on the
history of biomedical science from the nineteenth century to the
present.
Ph.D. History of Science, Harvard UniversityPh.D. English and American Literature and Language, Harvard UniversityM.A. Stanford University
Colin Milburn’s research focuses on the relations of literature,
science, and technology. His interests include science fiction,
gothic horror, the history of biology, the history of physics,
nanotechnology, video games, and the digital humanities. He is a
member of the Cinema and Digital Media Program,
the English
Department, the Science and Technology Studies
Program, and the Center for Science and Innovation
Studies.
Ph.D. University Orientale of NaplesM.F.A. San Francisco Art Institute
Fiamma Montezemolo is both an artist (MFA, San Francisco Art
Institute) and an anthropologist (PhD, University Orientale of
Naples). She is an established scholar in border studies and
Professor in the Department of Cinema and Digital Media at
the University of California, Davis.
Ph.D. Computer Science, University of Toronto 2005M.Sc. Computer Science, University of Toronto 1998B. Engineering and Society, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada 1996
Michael Neff is a computer scientist with interests in the arts,
culture and the environment.
Diplomstudium Regie equivalent, MFA Film Director, German Film and Television Academy Berlin (DFFB)
Biography
Branwen Okpako was born in Lagos/Nigeria. She received a BSC in
political sciences from Bristol University, England in 1991,
followed by MFA equivalent in film directing from the German Film
& Television Academy, Berlin (dffb) in 1999.
Julie Wyman’s 2012 documentary film STRONG! (75 min, HD)
continues her visual investigation of cultural and media
constructions of health, weight, gender and body image.
STRONG! premiered to sold-out houses and standing
ovations at Silverdocs 2012, screened in theaters nationally, and
was broadcast nationally as the closing film of the tenth season
of PBS’s Emmy award-winning series Independent
Lens, where it won the series’ Audience Award.
