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Fran Dyson
Technocultural Studies
Email: fmdyson@ucdavis.edu |
Frances Dyson (PhD), an Associate Professor in TechnoCultural Studies, serves on the Program Committee for Film Studies. Her research areas are focused on sound, new media, and issues relating to technology and concepts of humanism. She regularly teaches Topics in Virtuality (TCS 151) which explores the culture underlying the new technologies of virtual environments, telepresence, simulated experience and artificial life, through an analysis of science fiction film, and representations of post-humanism in art and popular culture. She is currently teaching New Trends in TechnoCultural Art (TCS 152) - a course which looks at issues relating to framing and containment in digital and sonic arts: from the frame of the photograph, the screen, the gallery, and the Internet, to the wider spheres of the body, the electro/magnetic spectrum, or the global (慧ataｹ) atmosphere.