Ken Feinstein

Profile

I am a media artist, award winning filmmaker, theorist, curator and academic. I have over 25 years’ experience teaching in universities in Southeast Asia and North America. I have taught design, interaction, film, gaming and as well as media theory and history. My work focuses on issues regarding our ethical relationship to Otherness and how technology plays a role in it. My work investigates how the physicality of a spatial design can help to enhance the relationship of the viewer to the work making it more intimate and personal. As the presence of media becomes more ubiquitous, we need to understand how we are transformed by this, what is the obligation found in being present with and bearing witness to the other and the ethical call found in it.

Responsibilities

• Program Leader, MA in Art & Design

Research interests

Testimony & Otherness in media practice: Digital printing/book arts: 

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Qualifications

• PhD (magna cum Laude), Media Philosophy, European Graduate School, Switzerland
• MA (cum laude), Communications, European Graduate School, Switzerland
• BA, Film and Photography, Hampshire College, USA
• IRB Member Certification, CITI Program

Professional memberships

• member, ACM

Student education

I am the Programme Leader fro the MA in Art & Design. I am teaching modules relating to media theory, practice led research and design. I have supervised MA & PhD students in a variety of areas includung film, essay photography, installation art, game design, game tgheory and multisensory media works. 

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