Miles Taylor received his B.A. in English and Modern Culture and Media (MCM) from Brown University. His English degree was focused on creative non-fiction writing. Afterwards, he attended Concordia University in Montreal, where he received a M.A. in Film and Media. His textual focus is on post-1970 Hollywood, New German Cinema, New Journalism, and to a lesser extent, contemporary fiction. Theoretically, he is trained in narratology, theories of the Frankfurt School, and semiotically grounded psychoanalytic film theory. He is currently working on a project exploring...
Allyson Unzicker is a Ph.D. candidate in Film & Media and is a curator of art and film. Her current research focuses on decolonial aesthetics and the affective structures of fatigue and political depression in film and multimedia installations. She has held various curatorial positions at museums and institutions across the greater Los Angeles area, most recently as the Associate Director & Curator of the University Art Galleries, UC Irvine. Her work as a curatorial and research assistant includes contributions to seven of The Getty Center's Pacific Standard Time...
Hui Wong is a Film & Media PhD student at UC Berkeley. He has written about reclaimed wastewater, air-conditioning, and eco-art in Singapore. Their current research concerns infrastructural disasters, postcolonial modernity, subjectivity, mediation, genre, and narrative, asking: how does the collapse of large technical systems orient social-psychic-political worlds?
Hui is broadly interested in: the infrastructure and environmental humanities, cultural techniques, documentaries, eco-horror, psychoanalysis (Lacanian and object relations), theories of affect and desire, the nation...
