Faculty
Todd Jurgess
Instructor
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BIO
My scholarly work focuses primarily on the relation between technology and aesthetics
in the context of cinema and other moving image media. My dissertation, "Informatic
Worlds: Digital Cinema's Realist Intervention," was completed at the University of
Florida in May 2015. In it, I argue that digital effects and animation have not undone
photography's ability to capture concrete reality, but instead complicate our understanding
of a contemporary world that already includes media and technology as integral aspects
of experience. This work -- in conjunction with article projects on high-frame rate
cameras and experimental glitch video -- seeks to clarify how digital technologies
have changed cinema's prevailing models in order to unravel how moving image media
help to shape economic, political, and philosophical understandings of our contemporary
world.
In addition to teaching FIL 1002, the department's introduction to film and new media
studies, I will also offer an upper-division course on Digital Video Production for
Spring 2016.