Dr. Susan Lord

Biography

Susan Lord holds a PhD from York University and is a Professor in the Department of Film and Media at Queen's University. She is the Director of the Vulnerable Media Lab, which is dedicated to the social ecology of media arts, focusing on collectives, collections, preservation, and remediation of media arts archives related to women, Indigenous peoples, and LGBTQ2 regional producers. With over 30 years of experience, she has been involved in curatorial projects and worked with artist groups and artist-run centres. Her research interests span cinema, media arts, archives, gendered spaces in cities, Cuban cinema, and visual culture. She has co-investigated projects such as Archive/CounterArchive and has been a principal investigator on projects like “Under Shadow Empire: Minor Archives Radical Distribution Networks.” Lord has co-edited collections, including 'Cinema Sara Gómez: Reframing Revolution,' published with Indiana University Press, and has authored books like 'Killing Women: Gender, Violence Representation' and 'Fluid Screens: Expanded Cinema Digital Cultures.' As a member of the Public Access Collective, she publishes the journal PUBLIC, which engages with art, culture, and ideas.

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