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Theorist, critic and curator of independent and experimental media arts. She is the author of ''The Skin of the Film: Intercultural Cinema, Embodiment, and the Senses'' (Duke University Press, 2000) and ''Touch: Sensuous Theory and Multisensory Media'' (Minnesota University Press, 2002), as well as dozens of essays. She has curated programs of independent and experimental media for festivals and art spaces worldwide. Her current research includes: formal commonalities and historical connections between Islamic art and contemporary computer art (a book project), contemporary Arab media arts; and audiovisual forms for intellectual work; and non-Western approaches to new media (the topic of a 2006 conference she is organizing in Vancouver). Dr. Marks is the Dena Wosk University Professor of Art and Culture Studies at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver.
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'''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 ''[https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=AFD891CC776CCF08979DB9F5449ABD6B The Fold: From Your Body to the Cosmos]'' (Duke, 2024), ''[https://library.memoryoftheworld.org/#/book/51a560af-d5ea-4fb8-8923-b72c8af94535 Hanan al-Cinema: Affections for the Moving Image]'' (MIT, 2015), ''Enfoldment and Infinity: An Islamic Genealogy of New Media Art'' (MIT, 2010), ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=575 Touch: Sensuous Theory and Multisensory Media]'' (Minnesota, 2002), and ''[https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=ABAD90DE6DEB795A1636189EE70E1C37 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 [https://smallfile.ca/ Small File Media Festival], which celebrates movies that stream at extremely low bitrate. With Azadeh Emadi she co-founded the [https://substantialmotion.org/ 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. [https://www.gf.org/fellows/laura-u-marks/ (2024)]
  
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* Nat Muller, [https://metropolism.com/en/feature/interview-with-laura-u-marks/ "Interview with Laura U. Marks"], ''Metropolis M'', 24 Aug 2008.
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* Monika Jaeckel, [https://web.archive.org/web/20110704192707/www.mindgap.org/index.php/laura-u-marks/latency/ "Inherent Latency of Embodiment. Interview with Laura U.Marks"], ''GAP'', Nov 2004.
  
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* ''Inherent Latency of Embodiment. Interview with Laura U.Marks'', November 2004. http://www.mindgap.org/index.php/laura-u-marks/latency/
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* [https://www.sfu.ca/~lmarks/ Website]
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* [https://www.instagram.com/lauraumarks/ Instagram]
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* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_U._Marks Wikipedia]
  
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Revision as of 09:38, 26 November 2024

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)

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