Martha Blassnigg
martha.blassnigg@gmail.com
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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.
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