Margaret Morse is professor for Film & Digital Media at the Santa Cruz University of California with a focus on digital and electronic media theory and criticism, media art, media history, technology and culture, film history and theory, German cinema, documentary and science fiction. She studies cultural change through media in a shifting focus from film to television and video to new media and digital culture. The cultural forms she has addressed range from television news, graphics and sports to video aerobics, malls and freeways, what food cyborgs eat, and the meaning of home in the age of privatized mobility. Her publications in books and essays include criticism on a wide range of work by contemporary media artists in the United States and Europe as well as theoretical essays on particular media art forms such as installation and closed-circuit video as well on the meaning of interactivity and immersion in the digital arts. She is currently writing a monograph on Leni Riefenstahl’s Triumph of the Will as well as researching a book that will update her Virtualities (Virtualities: Television, Media Art and Cyberculture, Indiana UP, 1998). Other publications include Hardware, Software, Artware, Cantz & ZKM, 1997; “Sunshine and Shroud: Cyborg Bodies and the Collective and Personal Self” in: Cyborg Bodies, eds. Jennifer John and Yvonne Volkart, ZKM and “The Poetics of Interactivity in: Women, Art and Technology, ed. Judy Malloy, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2003, 16-33.
