Notes on Contributors NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS Notes on Contributors
Sebastian Althoff is a PhD candidate at the Institute for Media Studies at Ruhr- University Bochum in cooperation with the Academy of Fine Arts Munich. He is a member of the DFG research group Media and Mimesis and research associate of the IDP Mimesis at the LMU Munich. In his research, he is developing a notion of digital mimicry in response to big data surveillance, drawing on Roger Caillois’s work on mimicry as well as recent examples of digital art.
Shumon Basar is a writer, curator and cultural critic. He is co-author of The Age of Earthquakes: A Guide to the Extreme Present with Douglas Coupland and Hans Ulrich Obrist. He is Commissioner of the Global Art Forum in Dubai, Editor-at-large of Tank magazine and Contributing Editor at Bidoun magazine, Adjunct Curator at Art Jameel, and a member of Fondazione Prada’s “Thought Council.”
Julia Eckel is a postdoctoral research associate at the Institute for Media Studies at Ruhr-University Bochum and scientific coordinator of the DFG research training group Documentary Practices: Excess and Privation. Her main research interests are animation and documentation, graphical images, anthropomorphism and an- thropophonism in audiovisual media (theory), the temporality and complexity of film, selfies and media as technologies of the self. She is currently working on a postdoc project on documen- tary practices of animation (beyond AnimaDoc film). 292 Notes on Contributors
Felix Hasebrink holds a B. A. and an M. A. in Media Studies and Comparative Literature from Ruhr-University Bochum, where he is currently working as a research assistant at the chair for Film Studies. His PhD project focuses on the aesthetics of contemporary making- of and behind-the-scenes documentaries.
Niklas Kammermeier is a PhD candidate in the DFG research training group Docu- mentary Practices: Excess and Privation at Ruhr-University Bo- chum. His interdisciplinary research focuses on theatrical prac- tices in documentary films and the media history of the figure of the perpetrator. He also teaches film editing at the University of Hildesheim and is working on several projects combining film, theatre, music and audio play.
David Ashley Kerr is an artist and curator living and working between Helsinki, Finland and Weimar, Germany. Melancholy, the post-digital, the gaze, and the darker elements of the human condition are what drive his artistic and curatorial research practice as a whole. He has taught at Photography Studies College and Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia, and has participated in national and in- ternational residencies and exhibitions in various capacities. In 2016, he obtained a PhD from Monash University, Australia. In 2018 he was a postdoctoral art fellow at the University of Helsinki, Finland, and is currently visiting researcher at the Center for Artistic Research (CfAR) of the University of the Arts Helsinki.