John Muse
John Muse writes criticism, teaches visual studies at Haverford College, and makes experimental films, multi-channel installation works, collages, and paintings. Muse is currently an Assistant Professor of Visual Studies at Haverford College where he also directs VCAM (the Visual Culture, Arts, and Media facility) and the Visual Studies Program. His 2021 film giroscopio, co-directed with Brendmaris Rodriguez, won Best Director award at the Ribalta Film Festival, a Jury’s Choice Award at the Thomas Edison Film Festival, and a Juror Award at the Ann Arbor Film Festival. His 2019 film Duet, made in collaboration with Mason Rosenthal, won the Black Bear Award for Sound Editing at the Athens International Film + Video Festival. In 2009 he and frequent collaborator, Jeanne C. Finley, were featured artists at the Flaherty Seminar programmed by Irina Leimbacher. In 2001 Finley + Muse received a Rockefeller Foundation Media Arts Fellowship for their experimental documentary project, Age of Consent. In 1999 they received a Creative Capital Foundation Award. In 1995 they were Artists in Residence at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. Muse has written critical essays about the work of Markus Baenziger, Roland Barthes, Suzanne Bocanegra, Victor Burgin, Nomi Talisman & Dee Hibbert-Jones, Amy Hicks, Roni Horn, Mary Lydon, Yoonmi Nam, Avital Ronell, Dread Scott, Lee Walton, and others. His films are distributed by the Video Data Bank; his writings can be found at academic.edu.
Homay King
Homay King is Professor in the Department of History of Art and co-founder of the Program in Film Studies at Bryn Mawr College. She is the author of Virtual Memory: Time-based Art and the Dream of Digitality (Duke UP, 2015), which won the Anne Friedberg Innovative Scholarship Award of Distinction from the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, and Lost in Translation: Orientalism, Cinema, and the Enigmatic Signifier (Duke UP, 2010), which provided inspiration for the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s China: Through the Looking Glass. Her work on film, digital media, contemporary art, and theory has appeared in publications including Afterall, Film Quarterly, The Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, October, The Oxford Handbook of Film Theory, and The Andy Warhol Film Catalogue Raisonné. She was featured in a video essay for the Criterion Collection’s edition of Shanghai Express, and is a member of the Camera Obscura editorial collective. She is currently writing a book entitled Go West: A Mythology of California’s Silicon Valley, for which she was awarded a CASVA Visiting Senior Fellowship.
Extra Medium | John Muse is made possible with support from The John B. Hurford ’60 Center for the Arts and Humanities and the Distinguished Visitors Program.
