Jenna Ng

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About me

I am currently a postdoctoral fellow in the digital humanities at HUMlab, Umeå University, Sweden. I received my PhD in Film Studies from University College London in 2009, writing my thesis on digital cinema, where I investigated the relationship between different temporalities (of pastness and presentness) and the moving image, particularly enquiring how recent technologies of cinema, such as digital video, CGI and motion capture, change or reconfigure the temporality of the image. My postdoctoral project focuses on avatars in virtual worlds, by which I propose to examine issues of identity, representation and ontology in new media, specifically in the co-constitutive interplay between old and new media.

Second Name

Ng

First Name(s)

Jenna

Work

Institutional Affiliation

Umeå University

Address

HUMlab / Department of Culture and Media
Umeå University
901 87, Umeå, Sweden

Position

Postdoctoral Fellow in the Digital Humanities

Research Interests

Digital culture, image technologies, digital cinema, new media. Intermedia translation, media archaeology, commingled media. Ontology and philosophy of film, cinema and the archive, cinematic memory. Cinema and time, pastness, duration, rhythm, temporality. Ethics and emerging technologies, rights, agency, activism. Cinema and the city, ecocriticism, cinema and environmentalism, political ecology. Also cinephilia, East Asian cinema, cross-culturality, comparative film studies.

Website

http://www.humlab.umu.se

History

Member for

3 years 7 months