Conference host
Øyvind Vågnes is Professor of Media Studies and Head of the Media Aesthetics Research Group at the University of Bergen. In his studies of visual culture he is intrigued by the similarities and differences between scenario-thinking and artistic/cultural work; by how the futures are imagined depending on what shapes the creative investment. This has been particularly relevant in his ongoing research on the television series Black Mirror. In 2011 Vågnes published the award-winning monograph Zaprudered: The Kennedy Assassination Film in Visual Culture. He is also a writer of fiction and an editor of the Journal of Visual Culture.
Øyvind Vågnes
University of Bergen, Norway