Participants
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Bo Florin
Bo Florin is an Associate Professor in Cinema Studies at the Department for Media Studies, Stockholm University. Publications include: Moderna motiv, Mauritz Stiller i retrospektiv (ed., 2001) and Regi: Victor Sjöström/Directed by Victor Seastrom (2003), both for the Swedish Film Institute. He has also been working as a consultant at the Swedish Film Institute, concerning restoration projects, and concerning the deposit of the United Nation Dag Hammarskjöld Film Collection. His most recent book is Transition and Transformation: Victor Sjöström in Hollywood, 1923-1930 (Amsterdam University Press, 2013). He has also contributed several articles to international journals such as Film History and Montage A/V.
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Patrick Vonderau
Patrick Vonderau is Professor in Cinema Studies at the Department for Media Studies at Stockholm University, and the leader of this project. He previously has worked at the University of the Arts in Berlin and at the Department for Media Studies at Ruhr University Bochum. Patrick is interested in media and cultural history, technology and social theory, and especially in understanding the multi-faceted relations between “media” and “industries” in their broad historical, aesthetical, theoretical, and technological contexts. He is also co-leading the Swedish Research Council-funded project Streaming Heritage: Following Files in Digital Music Distribution (2014-2018). His most recent book publications include Behind the Screen: Inside European Production Cultures (2013) and Moving Data. The iPhone and the Future of Media (2012). For more information – patrickvonderau.com
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Yvonne Zimmermann
Yvonne Zimmermann is Professor for Media Studies at Philipps-Universität Marburg in Germany. For two years, she was a Visiting Scholar at New York University where she researched Hans Richter’s exile in Switzerland (1937-1941) and the transatlantic exchange of film culture. She is the author of Bergführer Lorenz: Karriere eines missglückten Films (2005) and the editor and co-author of Schaufenster Schweiz: Dokumentarische Gebrauchsfilme 1896-1964 (2011). She has widely published on documentary and sponsored films, avant-garde, advertising, and nontheatrical exhibition. For more information – Yvonne Zimmermann
