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Susanne Wagner takes part in the master’s programme Kulturwissenschaftliche Medienforschung of the Faculty of Media of the Bauhaus University Weimar. Currently she is a research assistant at the Internationales Kolleg für Kulturtechnikforschung und Medienphilosophie (IKKM) in Weimar. In 2011 she has been a research student at the Graduiertenkolleg Media of History – History of Media (Erfurt, Jena, Weimar), working on a project about the construction of human images by anthropometric practices in ethnology around 1900. Her interests mainly include the interactions between (moving) images, perception and knowledge and problems of visual representation. Susanne.Wagner [at] uni-weimar.de
Neja Tomšič is active as a researcher, visual artist, writer and producer. She is a PhD student of Philosophy and Visual Culture Studies at the Faculty of Humanities in Koper, Slovenia. In 2008, she co- founded MoTA Museum of Transitory Art, a platform for research and production of transitory art and one of the first artist in residence spaces in Slovenia.
Brittany Paris is a second semester master’s student in the media studies program at the New School. Her current academic interests lie within the field of visual culture studies. Her past research has focused on questions of art and narrative and their relation to internet-mediated fora, as well as the politics of creative output online. She is pleased to present her paper “Social Network Economy: Immaterial Labor in Information Culture” at the 2012 Critical Themes in Media Studies Conference.