Steffen Hven received his doctoral degree at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar in 2015. After that he was Associate International Postdoctoral Researcher at the Kompetenzzentrum Medienanthropologie Bauhaus Universität Weimar until 2019. He also was a Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Chicago. In 2021 he became fellow at the CINEPOETICS research group, a joint venture of the Freie Universität Berlin together with Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF.
2023 marks the start of his own research project at Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF, “Cinematic Atmospheres: Towards a New Ecology of the Image – CATNEMI.”
Daniel ‘Dan’ D’Amore studied Cinema Studies at Oberlin College and received his doctorate in Film & Visual Studies from Harvard University in 2022. Prior to joining Filmuniversität Babelsberg, Daniel taught in the Department of Visual & Media Arts and the Emerson Prison Initiative at Emerson College. Beginning in 2024, he moved to the Film Universität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF as a Postdoctoral Researcher as part of the project group, “Cinematic Atmospheres: Towards a New Ecology of the Moving Image.”
Daniel’s teaching has covered the history and theory of media and screen cultures. His research focuses broadly on technology, architecture, and environment with ongoing interests in experimental film, critical theory, and the connections between system and sense.
Jamie Lee Moser holds a Master of Arts in Film Studies as part of the Netzwerk Cinema Program from the University of Zurich. She was a student assistant in the digital humanities project «Timeline of Historical Film Colors» by Prof. Dr. Barbara Flückiger at the Department of Film Studies of the University of Zurich. She held a graduate scholarship at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg and is starting from November 2024 as a PhD researcher in the ERC-Project «CATNEMI – Cinematic Atmospheres: Towards a New Ecology of the Moving Image» at Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF.
Her research focuses primarily on the interdependencies between politics, aesthetics and space in film and media art and on the links between phenomenological, post-cinematic and post-humanist approaches in film and media studies.
Lukas Becker did his doctoral degree on James Joyce, after studying english literature at the LMU München and the University of Leeds. He lived in the UK and Ireland for 15 years and did administrative work for several universities, amongst them University of the Arts London.
He returned to Germany in 2018 and joined the Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF in 2023 as EU project manager, foremost involved with the CATNEMI project.
Alexander Wiese did his Bachelor at Freie Universität Berlin, where he’s currently working on his Master thesis on spatial relations in films and video games. He worked as a research assistant at the CINEPOETICS research group and joined the Catnemi team in the same position in 2023.
His own research focus lies on affective spheres in movies, spectatorship as cinematic experience and genre dynamics also as game studies.