Erika Balsom was a Visiting Scholar Panel Participant at the "Curating People" Symposium at the Arts Research Center on April 28, 2011.
Erika Balsom is a Reader in Film Studies at King’s College London, focusing on the histories, aesthetics, and politics of nonfiction cinemas.
She has published extensively on the intersections of art and the moving image, often focusing on questions of technological change and/or examining the relationship between artistic practices and their institutional contexts.
She is the author of TEN SKIES (2021), An Oceanic Feeling: Cinema and the Sea (2018), After Uniqueness: A History of Film and Video in Circulation (2017), and Exhibiting Cinema in Contemporary Art (2013). She is the co-editor of Feminist Worldmaking and the Moving Image(2022), Peggy Ahwesh: Vision Machines(2021), Artists’ Moving Image in Britain Since 1989(2019), and Documentary Across Disciplines (2016).
In 2018, she was the recipient of a Philip Leverhulme Prize and the Kovacs Essay Award from the Society for Cinema and Media Studies. In addition to her scholarly work, she is active as a film critic and curator.
In 2022-23, together with Hila Peleg, Erika curated the exhibition "No Master Territories: Feminist Worldmaking and the Moving Image" (Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, and Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw), focusing on nonfiction filmmaking by women in a global context from the 1970s to the 1990s.