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Christian Gosvig Olesen is an Assistant Professor in Digital Media and Cultural Heritage at the University of Amsterdam. He teaches in the university's MA programs in Film Studies and Preservation and Presentation of the Moving Image. He has authored the book 'Visualizing Film History: Film Archives and Digital Scholarship' published by Indiana University Press in 2025. Olesen currently serves as the Teaching & Training Officer for the Common Lab Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities (CLARIAH), where he coordinates and develops educational resources and events, including the CLARIAH Summer School. His past research includes the management of projects that utilize digital methods for artistic research and audiovisual archives. Between 2017 and 2020, he was a project manager for 'The Sensory Moving Image Archive,' contributing significantly to the development of an environment for browsing moving images at the EYE Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, focusing on visual features in film. He was also the Principal Investigator for the NWO CLARIAH project MIMEHIST, which involved the annotation of EYE's Jean Desmet Collection. Olesen has held an artist scholar residence at the EYE Filmmuseum, where he researched compilation films and museum acquisition policies, particularly Nicole Vedres's 'Paris 1900'. His research interests encompass Audiovisual Archiving, Digital Humanities, Digital Heritage, Sound Studies, and the history and theory of experimental documentary cinema.
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