Dr. Jaimie Baron is the author of two books of media theory along with many journal articles, book chapters, essays, and reviews. She is the founder, director, and co-curator of the Festival of (In)appropriation, a yearly international festival of short experimental found footage films and videos. She is also a co-founder and co-editor of ...
I received my Ph.D. in English from the University of Pennsylvania, specializing at the intersections between Classical Hollywood, Critical Data Studies, and Race and Ethnic Studies. More specifically, I work on histories of “dataification” throughout Hollywood history and how data collection can be considered an aesthetic paradigm. I also write extensively on how digital communities strategically reappropriate copyrighted materials and redeploy them for social justice causes. My works appear in Screen (Oxford University Press), Film Quarterly (...
Ms. Kopell teaches screenwriting and digital production at Berkeley. Kopell has written for HBO as well as Los Angeles and New York based producers. She worked as an editor/creative consultant for video artist Charles Atlas and for “Alive From Off Center” (PBS). Kopell is co-founder of Eureka Studios, a media and video production company. Her award-winning short film “One Small Step” has been screened internationally and her video, “Dancenoise: Behind the Scenes at the Whitney” screened at the Whitney Museum of American Art, summer 2015.
Dolores McElroy is a Lecturer in the Film & Media Department at UC Berkeley. Her work has appeared in Film Quarterly, and her chapter, “Arias for an Untold Want: The Queer Desire of the Diva Film,” appears in the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Queer Cinema, edited by Ronald E. Gregg and Amy Villarejo. She holds a PhD in Film & Media from UC Berkeley, and a Master’s Degree in Film Studies from Columbia University.
Mores McWreath received a BFA from The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art and an MFA from the University of Southern California. He attended the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program, the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace Program. Recent solo and two person exhibitions/commissions include the New Museum, CUE Art Foundation, and M+B Gallery. Select group shows include The Kitchen, Institute of Contemporary Art Philadelphia, Walker Art Center, Art in General, Soloway Gallery, ar/ge kunst...
Tijana Petrović is a filmmaker, cinematographer and educator born and raised in the former Yugoslavia (now Serbia). Her nonfiction films, and film/video installations use landscape as a framework through which to observe and question our relationship to history, place and the natural world. Tijana’s work has screened at film festivals and exhibition venues internationally including IFF Rotterdam, True/False, Images, Ann Arbor and Dok Leipzig among others. She is a graduate of the Documentary Film & Video MFA program at Stanford University and the Documentary Certificate Program...
