Lisa Cartwright
Professor of Communication
Affiliated faculty in Science Studies and Critical Gender Studies
University of California at San Diego
lisac@ucsd.edu
Education
Yale University, American Studies Program, Ph.D. May 1991
New York University, Tisch School of the Arts, Department of Film and
Television, BFA 1982
Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program, Studio Fellow, 1982
Philadelphia College of Art, 1977-1979
Academic appointments
Professor, University of California at San Diego, Department of Communication, affiliated in Science Studies and Critical Gender Studies, 2002-present
Marie Jahoda Visiting Professor of Gender Studies, Ruhr University, Germany, 2005
Visiting Professor, History of Art, Architecture, and Design, Kingston University, England, 2005-present
Director, Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender and Women’s Studies, University of Rochester, 2000-2002
Associate Professor, University of Rochester. Joint appointment in Visual and Cultural Studies and in English, 1990-2002 (Instructor 1990, Assistant Professor 1991-1996)
Director, Program in Visual and Cultural Studies, University of Rochester, 1999-2000 and 1993-4
Postdoctoral Fellow, Brown University, Pembroke Center for Teaching and
Research on Women. 1991-92
Instructor, Yale University, American Studies Program and Film Studies Program. Seminars in women's studies, history of film and photography. 1989-1990
Teaching Fellow, American Studies, Film Studies, and Women's Studies Programs, Yale University, 1986-88
Books
Images of Waiting Children: The Visual Culture of Transnational Adoption, forthcoming, Duke University Press
Practices of Looking: An Introduction to Visual Culture, Revised Second Edition, co-authored with Marita Sturken. Oxford University Press, 2008
Moral Spectatorship: Technologies of Voice and Affect in Postwar Representations of the Child, Duke University Press, 2008
Practices of Looking: An Introduction to Visual Culture, First Edition, co-authored with Marita Sturken. Oxford University Press, 2001. (translated into Czech, Korean, Chinese)
Screening the Body: Tracing Medicine's Visual Culture, University of Minnesota Press, 1995
The Visible Woman: Imaging Technologies, Gender and Science, coedited with Paula A. Treichler and Constance Penley, NYU Press, 1998
Essays published in books
Imagination, Multimodality and Embodied Interaction: A Discussion of Sound and Movement in Two Cases of Laboratory and Clinical Magnetic Resonance Imaging, co-author Morana Alac, Science Images and Popular Images of the Sciences, ed. Bernd Hüppauf and Peter Weingart, New York: Routledge, 2008, 199-225. Translated and reprinted in German, Verlag 2009
Mandy (1952): On Voice and Listening in the (Deaf) Maternal Melodrama, in Medicine’s Moving Pictures: Medicine Health, and Bodies in American Film and Television, ed. Leslie J. Reagan, Nancy Tomes, and Paula A. Treichler, University of Rochester Press, 2007, 133-162.
Spectatorship and Pity: Representations of the Global Social Orphan in the 1990s, in Cultures of Transnational Adoption, ed. Toby Volkman, Duke University Press, 2005
On the Subject of Neural Prosthesis, co-authored with Brian Goldfarb, in The Prosthetic Imagination, ed. Giovanna Morra and Marquard Smith, MIT, 2005
Telemedicine and the Globalization of Health Culture, Biotechnology, Culture, and the Body, edited by Paul Brodwin, Indiana University Press, 2001
Doing Theory in Practice: A Case Study of the HyperHistory Video Project,
On a Silver Platter: CD-ROMs and the Promise of a New Technology, ed. Greg Smith, New York University Press, 1999
A Cultural Anatomy of the Visible Human Project,î The Visible Woman: Imaging Technologies, Gender and Science, ed. Paula A. Treichler, Lisa Cartwright, and Constance Penley, NYU Press, 1998
Gender and Criminality in the Visible Human Project,î Processed Lives: Gender and Technology, ed. Melodie Calvert and Jennifer Terry, London: Routledge, 1997
Gender Artifacts in Medical Media Displays, Visual Display, ed. Peter Wollen and Lynn Cook, Dia Art Foundation/Bay Press, 1995
"James Sibley Watson, Jr., U.S. Modernism and the Emergence of 'the Right Wing of Film Art,'" in Lovers of Cinema: The First American Film Avant-Garde, 1919-1945, ed. Jan-Christopher Horak, University of Wisconsin Press, 1995
"Cultural Contagion: On Disney's Health Education Films for Latin America," co-author Brian Goldfarb, in Disney Discourse: Producing the Magic Kingdom, ed. Eric Smoodin, Routledge/AFI Film Reader, 1994
Radiography, Cinematography, and the Decline of the Lens: Critical Incidents Between 1920 and 1978, co-author Brian Goldfarb, in Incorporations, Zone Volume 6, ed. Jonathan Crary and Sanford Kwinter (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1992)
Essays published in journals
Shame, Empathy and Looking Practices: Lessons from a Disability Studies Classroom, co-author David Benin, Journal of Visual Culture 5 (2): 155-171, 2006
‘Emergencies of Survival’: Moral Spectatorship and the ‘New Vision of the Child’ in Postwar Child Psychoanalysis, Journal of Visual Culture 3, no 1: 35-49 (2004)
Photographs of Waiting Children: the Transnational Adoption Market, Social Text 74 (2003)
Film and the Digital in Visual Studies: Film Studies in the Era of Convergence,î in Journal of Visual Culture, vol. 1, no. 1 (2002)
Telemedicine and the Globalization of Health Care, Health, Summer 2000
Community and the Public Body in Breast Cancer Media Culture, Cultural Studies 12(2), April 1998
"Women, X-rays, and the Public Culture of Prophylactic Imaging," in Camera Obscura 29 (1992)
Introductions to Camera Obscura 28 and 29 (1992), special issues on "Imaging Technologies, Inscribing Science," co-author Paula A. Treichler
"'Experiments of Destruction': Cinematic Inscriptions of Physiology," in Representations 40 (1992)
"Science and the Film Avant-Garde,"in Cinematograph 4 (1991)
"Rose Lowder's Composed Recurrence," co-author Peter Gidal, in Millennium Film Journal 16/17/18 (1986)
"On Representation and Sexual Division," interview with Christine Delphy, in Undercut 14/15 (1985)
"The Front Line and the Rear Guard," in Screen 25(6) (1984) (review essay on Jonathan Rosenbaum's 1983 Film the Front Line)
"Narrative is Narrative: So What is New?" co-author Nina Fonoroff, Heresies 16 (1983)
Reprints in books and journals
Film and the Digital in Visual Studies: Film Studies in the Era of Convergence, in The Visual Culture Reader, Second Edition, ed. Nicholas Mirzoeff, Routledge, 2002
The Criminal Subject as Biomedical Norm, in The Cyberculture Reader, ed. David Bell, 2000
Screening the Body: Tracing Medicine’s Visual Culture, excerpt (pp 1-15) in The Visual Culture Reader, First Edition, ed. Nicholas Mirzoeff, Routledge, 1999
Community and the Public Body in Breast Cancer Media Culture, in Wild Science: Feminist Readings of Science, Medicine, and the Media, ed. Janine Marchessault and Kim Sawchuck, Routledge, 1999
A Cultural Anatomy of the Visible Human Project, in Aura: Film Studies Journal 4, no. 1 (Stockholm, 1998)
Screening the Body: Tracing Medicine’s Visual Culture, excerpt from chapter 5, in Frankensteinís Kinder: Film und Medizin, ed. Jutta Phillips-Krug and Cecelia Hausheer, trans. Mariam Niroumand, Cantz Verlag/Museum of Design, Zurich, 1997
Narrative is Narrative: So What is New? (1983), co-author Nina Fonoroff,
In Multiple Voices: Issues in Feminist Film Criticism, eds. Linda Dittmar, Diane
Carson and Janice Welsch, University of Minnesota Press, 1994. (originally published in 1983 in Heresies.)
Review essays
Review of Naked to the Bone: Medical Imaging in the Twentieth Century, Bettyann Holtzmann Kevles, Rutgers University Press, 1997, for Isis
Review of The Making of Exile Cultures: Iranian Television in Los Angeles, Hamid Naficy, Screen summer 1995
Encyclopedia and handbook entries
Lectures
Neo-disciplinarity, First Annual Visual Culture Studies Conference, University of Westminster, London, May 27-29, 2010
Critical Art Practice and the Spaces of Biological Citizenship, Keynote address, Second Annual Graduate Visual Culture Conference, St. Louis University, April 16-18, 2010
Graduate workshop on affect and film studies, Visual and Environmental Studies, Harvard University, April 6, 2010
Critical Art Practice in the Era of Biological Citizenship, Sixth Annual Life Science and Society Symposium: From Art
To Biology and Back Again, University of Missouri University of Missouri, Columbia, March 12-14, 2010
Roundtable discussion with faculty in Women’s Studies, University of Missouri University of Missouri, Columbia, March 12, 2010
Compulsive Animation: Affect, Intersubjectivity, and Rotoscoping, Science: A Moving Image conference, Hixon Forum for Responsive Science, Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, California, February 18-20, 2009
Compulsive Animation, Animation and Automation, a conference across the Research Institute for Cosmopolitan Cultures at Manchester University and the Cente for Science Studies, Lancaster University, April 26-27, 2009
Compulsive Animation, Minima Materialia: What Remains of the Body, an international conference organized by the Body, Memory, Gender Research Network (Film Studies Department), University of Zurich, Switzerland, May 22-24, 2008
On Documenting Facial Affect, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, presentation delivered in conjunction for Kelli Moore and David Benin, doctoral students in Communication, The Educated Eye: Photography and Scientific Evidence, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, February 21-24, 2008.
Fetal Personhood and Visual Culture: Revisiting the Feminist Critiques, in workshop series titled Visualisation Technologies and Gynaecological Practices, at the invitation of the faculty and graduate student members of GEXcel (the Center for Gender Excellence), Linköping University, Sweden, November 21, 2007.
Imagination, Multimodality and Embodied Interaction: A Discussion of Sound and Movement in Two Cases of Laboratory and Clinical Magnetic Resonance Imaging. Workshop series: Visualisation Technologies and Gynaecological Practices, GEXcel (the Center for Gender Excellence), Linköping University, Sweden, November 21, 2007.
Compulsive Animation: Affect, Intersubjectivity, and Rotoscoping, Animation: From the Avant-Garde to Popular Culture, a conference hosted by the San Diego Museum of Art, University of Southern California, University of California San Diego, and the San Diego Museum of Photographic Arts, November 1-3, 2007.
Compulsive Animation, Contemporary Art and Animation, Comic-Con 2007. Panel organized in conjunction with Animated Painting, an exhibition at the San Diego Museum of Art. San Diego Convention Center, July 29, 2007.
Moral Spectatorship, Film Studies Department Colloquium, University of Zurich, Switzlerland, May 21, 2007
Juror and lecturer on the history of the scientific documentary film, 43rd International Festival of Popular-Scientific and Documentary Films/Academia Film Olomouc, Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic, April 15-20, 2007. Paper delivered at a lecture in conjunction with my role as member of the jury for the category of popular-scientific documentary film in the international competition.
Lecture for the Dean of Humanities Lecture Series and the Linwood Newman Medical Humanities Lecture Series, "Technologies of Female Voice in (Deaf) Melodrama," Rice University, March 29, 2007
Compulsive Animation, Pervasive Animation Conference, Tate Modern, London (Britain’s national museum of international modern art). An international conference organized in collaboration with the Animation Research Centre, University College for the Creative Arts. Funded by Arts Council England, University College for the Creative Arts and Brunel University West London, March 2-4, 2007
Visual studies looking toward disability studies, Paper prepared for presentation to faculty and students on the topic of the field of visual studies at Kingston University, England, March 1, 2007.
Moral Spectatorship, Seeing Perception: Historical Modes of Perception in Image and Text, a conference held at Leipzig University, Institute of Germanistic Studies, November 24-26, 2006
Feminist Film Theory, Affect and Voice, Institute for Media Studies, Cologne University, Germany, December 1, 2005, and on December 2 participated in full-day workshop seminar organized around issues in book Moral Spectatorship
Feminism, Humanism and the Politics of Pity, lecture co-presented with Valerie Hartouni, Institut fur Germanistik, Leipzig University, November 13, 2005
Gender Studies in an International Context, lecture in honor of opening of women’s studies degree program at Ruhr University, Bochum, Germay, November 3, 2005
Affect, Identification, and Embodied Experience: Participant Observation in MRI and Robotics, Image and Imagination Conference, Deutsches Haus at New York University, October 13-15, 2005 [was not able to attend, Morana Alac delivered joint lecture]
(Deaf) Female Voice, Film Sound, and Affect, Cinema and Technology Conference, Lancaster University, April 2005
Moral Spectatorship: Digital Humanism, Disability, and the Moving Image of Global Child Crisis, Everyday Fears: Colloquium on Visual Culture, University of Toronto Department of Fine Arts, March 29, 2005
Visual Culture and Science, presentation to undergraduate lecture course in Visual Culture, Fine Arts Department, University of Toronto, March 30, 2005
*Moral Spectatorship: Visuality in British and US Pychoanalytic Child Psychiatry, 1930-50, Visual Culture and Medicine, National Library of Medicine symposium, National Institutes of Health, October 15-16, 2003
Pictures of Waiting Children: The Politics of Images in Transnational Adoption, Duke University Departments of English and Film Studies, April 2003
Global Communication and the Body in Distance Medicine, NEH Summer Seminar on Medicine and Culture, University of Pennsylvania, organized by Susan Squier and Anne Hunsaker-Hawkins, July 2002
Plenary address, Society for Cinema Studies Annual Conference, inaugurating addition of Media to association name (SCMS), Denver, Colorado, May 2002
Digital Anatomy, Bodyworks series, State University of New York at Buffalo, Media Studies Department, May 1, 2002
Ocular Prosthetics: Visuality and Intersubjectivity, Sociology in the Age of Intelligent Machines, Burchfield-Penney Gallery, Buffalo State University, Department of Sociology, April 22, 2002
Pictures of Waiting Children: The Politics of Images in Transnational Adoption, Program in Medicine and Culture and Women’s Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, February 15, 2002
Pictures of Waiting Children: The Politics of Images in Transnational Adoption, New York University Center for Media, Culture, and History conference on The Traffic in Kinship: Rethinking Identity and Culture in an Age of Transnational Adoption,î September 27-28, 2001
Mandy and Disability: The Deaf Woman’s Film and Film Sound Technology, English and Film Studies Departments, University of Pittsburgh, April 6, 2001
Lectures on visual and literary studies in the US, State University System, Kazakhstan (Karaganda and Temertau), November-December 2000
Digital Anatomical Visuality and the Body-Technology Interface in the Visible Human Project, Keynote lecture, Graduate Student Conference, SUNY Binghamton, March 26, 1999
Prosthetic Vision, The Depot art space, Vienna, Austria, May 21, 1999
Concepts of Realism in the Visible Human Project, York University, Environmental Studies Lecture Series, January 26, 1999
Is the History of the Body a History of Its Representation?, Critical Studies mini-seminar. 3 lectures delivered: "Concepts of Realism in the Visible Human Project," "The Condition of Disablement in Digital Culture (coauthor Brian Goldfarb)," and "Communication Technology, Authorship, and Agency in the Facilitated Communication Debates," University of California, Irvine, November 16-19, 1998
The Condition of Disablement and Virtual Ability in Digital Culture, written and presented with Brian Goldfarb, The Virtual: Old and New Seminar, Society for the Humanities, Cornell University, October 21, 1998
The Public Lives of Digital Cadavers: A Cultural Anatomy of the Visible Human Project, Programs in Science Studies, Women’s Studies, and Cultural Studies, Lancaster University, England, January 22, 1998
The Public Lives of Digital Cadavers: A Cultural Anatomy of the National Library of Medicine’s Visible Human Project, University Program in Cultural Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, November 14, 1996
Community and the Public Body in Breast Cancer Media Activism, Colloquium paper, University Program in Cultural Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, November 15, 1996
Keynote contribution (delivered online), Inter Sections Conference, University of New South Wales College of Fine Arts in conjunction with the 1996 Sydney Biennale, Sydney, Australia, August 15-17, 1996 (invited to give in-person keynote for conference)
Telemedicine and the Globalization of US Health Care, Colloquium on Science and Media in their Transnational Locations, University of California Humanities Research Institute, University of California at Irvine, May 21-22, 1996
Visual and Cultural Studies, University of California Humanities Research Institute, May 21, 1996
Telemedicine and the Globalization of US Health Care, Cultural Studies Workshop, Science, Technology, and Society Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, April 5, 1996
Gender, Cultural Identity, and Criminality in the Visible Human Project, Conference on Gender and Technology, Humanities Institute, State University of New York at Stony Brook, April 25-6, 1996
Digital and media art on the body and health, the Cooper Union, NYC, October 1996
The Body Beautiful: Women and Health-Care Media Activism, School of Film and Television, University of California at Los Angeles, January 24, 1996
Multimedia in Contemporary Health-Care Activism, Art and Technology conference, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Michigan, December 2, 1995
Big Science, Local Culture: Power and Agency in the Medical Imaging Marketplace, Gloca Cola: Globalization and Media Culture conference, Chicago Humanities Institute, April 1995
Prosthetic Imaging: Technological Reconstructions of Body and Community In Breast Cancer Media Politics, University of Chicago Humanities Institute Colloquium Series, March 1995
Gender Artifacts: Sonographic Inscription of Fetal Identity in Prenatal Research, Gender Studies Program, University of Chicago, February 1995
Gender Artifacts in Medical Imaging Technologies, Art and Technology conference organized by the journal Public, Toronto, January 1995
"Imaging and Imagining Medicine's Public Sphere: Technological Activism and Medicine's Media Cultures," Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory Colloquium Series, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, October 1994
"Playing with Patients: A Presentation of Some Recent Interactive Patient-Education and Community Health Computer Programs," University of Illinois School of Medicine, Medical Humanities Program, Urbana, IL, October 1994
"Cultural Agency in Medical Imaging: Medical Cultures, Media Countercultures," The Wexner Center, Ohio State University, February 1994
"Gender Artifacts in Medical Imaging Technologies," Princeton University School of Architecture, October 1994
"Gender Artifacts in Medical Imaging Technologies," Visual Display Conference, Dia Center for the Arts, NY, May 1993
"The Museum as Laboratory, the Artwork as Difference Machine," New Museum of Contemporary Art gallery talk, NYC, June 1993
"The Failure of Organic Signs: Neurology and the Film Motion Study," Columbia University Seminars on Cinema and Interdisciplinary Interpretation, Museum of Modern Art, February 1993
"The Failure of Organic Signs: Neurology and the Film Motion Study," University of Oklahoma at Norman, Medical School and Film Studies and History of Science departments, February 1993
"The X-ray Motion Picture and Modernism: James Sibley Watson, Jr, and Cinefluorography," Rochester Medical Society, March 1992
"The X-ray in Art and Popular Culture: Motion X-rays of James Sibley Watson, Jr." Program for the Humanities in Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, March 1991
Columbia University Seminar on Cinema and Interdisciplinary Interpretation, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, respondent to paper by Gaylyn Studlar, "The Perils of Pleasure: Fan Magazine Discourse and the Female Spectator in the 1920s," April 1990
"Medical Science and the Birth Control Movement: Research and Authorship in Margaret Sanger's Biology of Conception," Yale University Women's Studies Program, December 1989
"Pornography and Censorship," Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Women's Studies Program, September 13, 1988
Selected short panel and workshop papers
Neural Convergences. Paper co-written and co-presented with Sharon Traweek (UCLA), Annual Conference of the Society for Disability Studies, San Francisco State University, June, 2005
Nervous Affinities: Cinema, MRI, and Knowledge in Neurology, Science and the Moving Image Conference, Department of Film and Television, Northwestern University, March 5, 2005
Nervous Affinities: Cinema, MRI, and Knowledge in Neurology, Image and Algorhythm, University of California at Santa Barbara, March 3, 2005
Love Your Symptom: on the TS-OCD Spectrum, multimedia performance and paper with Brian Goldfarb and David Marcus, Annual Conference of the Society for Disability Studies, St. Louis, May 2004
Affect and the Obsessive Compulsive Spectrum, presented with David Marcus, MD, UCLA, at the Society for Literature and Science, October 10-13 2002, Pasadena, Panel title: Psyche, Soma, and the Production of Mental Illness
Panel: Documenting Science/the Science of Documentary, Panel organizers: Peter Galison and Lisa Cartwright, Paper title: "On Evidence and Emotion in Science Film Spectatorship, History of Science Society joint meeting with Society for the Social Studies of Science in Milwaukee, November 2002
Workshop on Film in the Era of Digital Media, Society for Cinema Studies Annual Conference, Chicago, February 2000
Ocular Prosthetics, a panel on technology and the body in art practice, New York, College Art Association, January 2000
Conference on Spectatorship: On Artistic, Scientific, and Technological Mediation, Universeit Maastricht, the Netherlands, 19 and 20 November 1999
Photography, X-rays, and gender at the turn of the century, workshop on ìThe Organization of Visibility: Photography in Science, Technology and Art around 1900,î the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, January 14-16, 1999.
Putting Gender and Bodies into Science and Technology Studies, Roundtable, Women's Studies Program, Cornell University, November 4, 1998 (copresenters: Nelly Oudshoorn and Michelle Murphy)
The Real Life of Biomedical Body Images, Society for the Social Studies of Science Conference, October 31, 1998
Is the History of the Body a History of its Representation? Reconsidering Anatomical Realism, Visual Rhetoric in Victorian Science and Medicine, The Huntington Library, organized with the California Institute of Technology, May 29-30, 1998
Genetic Memory: Defining Jewishness in Breast Cancer Genetics Research, Making People: the Normal and Abnormal in Constructions of Personhood, Dept. of Science and Technology Studies, Cornell University, April 24-26, 1998
A Cultural Anatomy of the Visible Human Project, conference on Intimate Portraits: Body Imaging Technologies in Medicine and Culture, University of California, San Francisco, History of Health Sciences and Radiology Departments, April 4, 1998
Film, Gender, and the Selling of Mass Radiography in Great Britain and the United States, Workshop on the History of Radiology, University of Manchester, England, January 23-4, 1998
The Public Lives of Digital Cadavers: A Cultural Anatomy of the National Library of Medicine’s Visible Human Project, conference on Biotechnology, Culture, and the Body, Center for 20th Century Culture, University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, April 24-6, 1997
Panel chair and conference organizer, Debating Genes and Gender conference, University of Rochester Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender and Women’s Studies, April 1997
Genetic Memory: Breast Cancer, Race, and Pathology, American Studies Association annual conference, Pittsburgh, November 1995
Big Science, Local Culture: Power and Agency in the Medical Imaging Marketplace, Gloca-Cola: Globalization and Media conference, University of Chicago Humanities Institute, April 1995
Panel chair and presenter, Video Activism in the Academy, Society for Cinema Studies 1994 conference, New York, NY
Workshop chair and presenter, Video Art and Politics Hypercard Project, HyperHistory Video Group, Console-ing Passions: Television and Feminism Conference, Tucson, April 1994
Science, Technology, and the Early Cinema, University of Iowa Early Cinema Weekend Conference, October 1994
Women, Technology, and Video History, Feminist Film and Video in the 90s panel, Society for Cinema Studies 1994 conference, Syracuse, NY
Panel chair, Denatured Bodies: The Politics of Identity in New Medical Media Technologies," Society for Cinema Studies 1994 conference, Syracuse, NY
Gender Artifacts in Medical Imaging Technologies, Denatured Bodies panel, American Anthropological Association 1993 conference, Washington, D.C.
Panel chair, In the Face of Violence panel, Cross Talk: A Multicultural Feminist Symposium, sponsored by the New Museum of Contemporary Art at The Drawing Center, NYC, June 1993.
Workshop co-chair, Appropriating Imaging Technologies For Video Activism, Society for Cinema Studies 1993 conference, New Orleans
The Failure of Organic Signs: Neurology and the Film Motion Study, Society for Cinema Studies 1993 conference, New Orleans
Working in the Archives: Issues, Strategies, Implications," Society for Cinema Studies 1992 conference, Pittsburgh
Image, History and Illusions: Reception and Agency in the Films of Julie Dash, Contemporary African-American Cinema in the United States Conference, Yale University, May 1992
The Ultimate Force Multiplier': Military Flight Simulation and the Decline of Sight-Based Knowledge, Animation Studies Association 1991 conference, Rochester
The X-ray Motion Picture and Modernism: James Sibley Watson, Jr., and Cinefluorography," American Association for the History of Medicine 1991 conference, Cleveland
The Filmwork of Margaret Sanger," Society for Cinema Studies 1990 conference, Washington, DC
Historical Approaches to Early Medical Films, Fast Rewind: The Archaeology of Moving Images I conference, Rochester, 5/89
Analytical Realism in Early Film Motion Studies, Society for Cinema Studies 1989 conference, University of Iowa
Art/media curating and exhibitions, journal editing, and archival work
Presentation of screening of MASH, Nursing on Film series, George Eastman House, Rochester, 1 December 1999
Presentation of screening of Mandy (popular British postwar film and representation of deafness in cinema), George Eastman House Dryden Theater, Rochester, NY, March 11, 1999
Presentation of program on films in the anti-tuberculosis campaign, Museum of Natural History Microbes at the Movies Film Series, Margaret Mead Film Festival, New York City, March 6, 1999
Co-curator with Alice Yang and Celeste Olalquiaga, "The Final Frontier" (an exhibition of multimedia/technological art about the body and cultural identity), The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York City, May-August 1993
Guest co-editor with Paula A. Treichler, Camera Obscura 28 and 29, "Imaging Technologies, Inscribing Science" (1992)
Guest programmer, "Science and the Film Avant-Garde," Pacific Film Archive series, Berkeley, California, programs in Summer 1991 and Winter 1992 seasons
Film archive consultant, National Museum of Health and Medicine, Otis Archives Medical Film Collection, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Washington, D.C., June 1989-90
Guest programmer, Yale Center for British Art, Film Symposium, "British Avant-Garde Film," 1986
Co-programmer, 1983 Women's International Film Festival, New York City
Editorial collective member, Heresies 16, special issue: "Film/Video/Media" 1983
Video and multimedia production
Co-producer with Brian Goldfarb and Christopher Sigismonti, Living With
Tourette Syndrome (an educational interactive computer software program designed for youth audiences), 1991-3
Producer, Video Art and Politics, A HyperHistory Video Group Production, 1993-4. A hypercard stack on video history collaboratively produced with graduate students in course on video art and politics
Consultant to Alexandra Juhasz, WAVE and HIV TV video projects for the Brooklyn AIDS Task Force, 1992
Fellowships and awards
Society for the Humanities Fellowship, Cornell University, Fall 1998.
Fellowship theme: The Virtual, Old and New. Project: Technology and Virtual Ability
Bridging Fellowship, University of Rochester, 1998 (declined). Career development fellowship awarded for the purpose of bridging fields and conducting interdisciplinary research. Project: Study and work with faculty in the Department of Community and Preventive Medicine
Rockefeller Fellowship, Rockefeller Program in Public Spheres and the Globalization of Media, Chicago Humanities Institute, University of Chicago, 1994-5
Fellowship theme: "Mass Media and the Politics of the Public Sphere."
Mellon and Pew Fellowship in Art Criticism, California Institute of the Arts, 1994-95 (declined)
Honorable Mention, Katherine Singer Kovacs Award, Essay Prize (administered by
Quarterly Review of Film and Video) for " 'Experiments of Destruction':
Cinematic Inscriptions of Physiology," Representations 40 (1992)
Society for Cinema Studies Dissertation Award, 1992
Postdoctoral Fellowship, The Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on
Women, Brown University, 1991-2, fellowship theme: "Scientific Knowledge and
'Difference'"
Yale University Garner Fellowship, 1985-1989
Yale Center for British Art Travel Grant, 1986
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