Martha Blassnigg

Martha Blassnigg is educated in Cultural Anthropology and Film and Cinema Studies at the Universities of Vienna, Cologne and Amsterdam, and completed her PhD on the spiritual dimension of the cinema spectatorship at the University of Wales. She is currently a Visiting Researcher with Trans-technology Research at the University of Plymouth and is Associate Editor for Leonardo Reviews and a member of the Leonardo review panel. She has completed two documentary films and has previously worked as film restorer at the Netherlands Filmmuseum. Her research into the perception of audio-visual media in both a historical and contemporary context concern the processes of the human mind, through an application of Bergson's philosophy and the issues of time, memory and consciousness. Some recent outcomes of her research have been published in Leonardo, Convergence, Technoetic Arts and in the anthology Screen Consciousness: Cinema, Mind and World edited by R. Pepperell and M. Punt (Rodopi, Amsterdam, 2006). She is currently working on a number of book projects including Time, Memory, Consciousness and the Cinema Experience: Revisiting Ideas on Matter and Spirit to be published by Rodopi Press in 2008. A full list of publications and CV can be found at http://www.trans-techresearch.net.