Dr. Laura Marks: Invisible Media

Laura U. Marks is a theorist and programmer of experimental film, video, and new media. Her first book, The Skin of the Film: Intercultural Cinema, Embodiment, and the Senses, explores works by diasporan film/videomakers that call upon the knowledge of the senses to supply memory, when words and images fail. Her new book, Touch, Sensuous Theory and Multisensory Media, collects ten years' worth of her critical essays that develop a sensuous and materialist understanding of media and the world, with special attention to olfactory and digital media. Her essays have appeared in many international art and scholarly publications, and she has organized numerous programs of experimental media. Dr. Marks is Associate Professor of Film Studies at Carleton University.