Dr. Laura Frahm

Biography

Laura Frahm's work explores intersections between film media, lens architecture, design, spatial theory, ecological thought, and process philosophy. She has published numerous articles and books including 'Space: Cinematic Topologies of the Urban' (2010) and 'Moving Spaces: Spatial Configurations in Music Videos by Jonathan Glazer, Chris Cunningham, Mark Romanek, and Michel Gondry' (2007). She co-edited 'Introduction to Media Cultural Studies' (2005). From 2008 to 2012, she was a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at the International Research Institute for Cultural Technologies and Media Philosophy (IKKM) at Bauhaus University Weimar. Frahm earned her PhD from Humboldt University Berlin in 2008 and was a doctoral fellow in the Transatlantic Graduate Research Program in Berlin and New York. Her current book, 'Design Motion: Film Experiments at the Bauhaus' (MIT Press, July 2022), traces the history of film experiments and material practices in celluloid, examining how film can be malleable and adaptable as a 'polymedium.' Her projects include a new manuscript on media experiments, organic design, and ecological thought post-Bauhaus, as well as a monograph on early cybernetic cinema, art, and design.

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