Film & Media

BBB Johannes Deimling

Visual Artist
BBB Johannes Deimling was a Visiting Lecturer Panel Participant at the Nordic Time Zones Conference at the Arts Research Center on March 26, 2014.

BBB Johannes Deimling, born in 1969 in Andernach, Germany, is a visual artist working in the fields of performance art, video art, art film, drawing, and painting as well as art education.

Deimling has invested a large part of his artistic research in teaching and learning performance art processes since 1997. In 2008 he founded the international art and education project...

Sharon Daniel

Multimedia Artist, Professor of Film & Digital Media at UC Santa Cruz
Sharon Daniel was a Visiting Artist Panel Participant at the Questioning Aesthetics Symposium at the Arts Research Center on March 13, 2015.

Sharon Daniel is a media artist who produces interactive and participatory documentaries focused on issues of social, economic, environmental and criminal justice. She builds online archives and interfaces that make the stories of marginalized and disenfranchised communities available across social, cultural and economic boundaries. Daniel's work has been exhibited internationally as well as on the internet. Most recently, a solo...

Susanne Cockrell

Artist, Educator
Susanne Cockrell was a Visiting Artist Panel Participant at the Questioning Aesthetics Symposium at the Arts Research Center on March 13, 2015.

Susanne Cockrell is an artist and educator who lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her social and documentary projects consider the ways people live into specific places over time, amplifying the emergent choreography of landscape, shared experience, and participatory actions in shaping collective and civic life. Early research in experimental dance, environmental studies, and eastern philosophy continue to...

Alenda Y. Chang

ARC Fellow and Associate Professor in Film and Media Studies at UC Santa Barbara
Alenda Y. Chang was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2010 – she was chosen in the Graduate Fellow category.

Alenda Y. Chang is an Associate Professor in Film and Media Studies at UC Santa Barbara. With a multidisciplinary background in biology, literature, and film, she specializes in merging ecocritical theory with the analysis of contemporary media. Her writing has been featured in numerous journals, including Feminist Media Histories, Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, the Journal of Gaming and Virtual Worlds, and Resilience...

Nora Alter

Professor of Theater, Film, and Media Arts
Nora Alter was a Visiting Scholar Panel Participant at the Making Time: Art Across Gallery, Screen and Stage Screening at the Arts Research Center on April 20, 2012.

Nora Alter is a professor at Temple University’s School of Theater, Film, and Media Arts. She served as Chair of the Department from 2009-2013. She is founding director of Temple’s Venice Study Abroad Summer Program and is former founding Director of FMA’s Los Angeles Study Away Program. Alter is culturally fluent in European and North American arts and culture. Alter completed her PhD in Comparative...

Corey Byrnes

ARC Fellow and Associate Professor of Chinese Culture at Northwestern University
Corey Byrnes was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2010 – he was chosen in the Graduate Fellow category.

Corey Byrnes received a BA from Brown University in 2003, an MPhil from the University of Cambridge in 2005, and a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley in 2013. His research and teaching areas include the environmental humanities; 19th-21st century Sinophone literature, film, and visual culture; animal studies; and landscape and spatial studies. He is a core-faculty member and Director of Graduate Studies in Northwestern’s Comparative Literary...

Linda Brumbach

Creative Producer
Linda Brumbach was a Visiting Lecturer Panel Participant at the Re-staging / Re-construction / Re-enactment Symposium at the Arts Research Center on August 13, 2012.

Linda Brumbach is an independent creative producer based in New York City working across mediums of performance, installation, and film. She founded her company Pomegranate Arts in 1998 to center her practice around both helping to realize an artist’s vision and supporting ambitious provocative work that often falls outside of traditional genres and structures. Pomegranate Arts has produced the Olivier Award-...

Vic Brooks

Filmmaker, Senior Curator of Time-Based Visual Art at EMPAC
Vic Brooks was a Visiting Curator Panel Participant at the Feminist Curatorial Practices Roundtable Conversation at the Arts Research Center on April 11, 2018.

Vic Brooks was at EMPAC for over a decade and served as co-Acting Director with Jonas Braasch from fall 2022 to spring 2024.

Brooks frequently publishes and consults on the production, infrastructures, and exhibition of the time-based arts, and is editing the bilingual book Tuning Calder’s Clouds (Athénée Press: Bogotá, 2024) on the interdisciplinary intersections of Alexander Calder’s Acoustic...

Rizvana Bradley

Professor of Film & Media Studies, Scholar of Contemporary Art
Rizvana Bradley gave a Visiting Lecturer Lecture at the Arts Research Center on September 12, 2019.

Rizvana Bradley is Assistant Professor of Film and Media and Affiliated Faculty in the History of Art and the Center for Race and Gender at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the 2023–24 Terra Foundation Visiting Professor at the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies at Freie Universität Berlin.

Bradley’s book, Anteaesthetics: Black Aesthesis and the Critique of Form (Stanford University Press, 2023), moves across multiple histories...

Peter Bittner

ARC Fellow, Multimedia Journalist, and Lecturer in the UC Berkeley School of Journalism
Peter Bittner was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2017 – he was chosen in the Graduate Fellow category.

Peter Bittner is the founder of The Upgrade and is passionate about making a difference through emerging media & technology.

His photography and videography have been published on the front page of The New York Times and in CNN, Bloomberg, NBC, Reuters, Vox, Business Insider, Hearst Digital, Al Jazeera, Popular Mechanics, VICE News, and other major outlets. Peter is a Fulbright Scholar and has covered science, sports, travel, politics, and culture — and has a special...