Junnan Chen

Junnan Chen
Assistant Professor Faculty Fellow of Interactive Media Arts (IMA), NYU Shanghai
Email
jc4561@nyu.edu

Junnan Chen is an Assistant Professor Faculty Fellow of Interactive Media Arts (IMA) at NYU Shanghai. She received her joint-degree PhD in East Asian Studies and Interdisciplinary Humanities from Princeton University. Her research and teaching explores the intersection of critical theory, film and media theory, and East Asian cinema and visual culture. Her current work has three entwined thematic focuses: the technique of time in the long 20th century, planetary Cold War urbanization, and feminist media theory and practice. She is working on a book manuscript based on her dissertation Expressing Time: Cybernetic Aesthetics and Cold War Japan. The work explores the dissensual concepts and praxis of time encrypted in the milieu of technology, sensuality, and embodiment wrought by capitalist modernity and its shadow, connecting and delimiting heterogeneous media thinkers and practitioners, from Ludwig Klages, Henri Bergson, to Taki Kōji and Yoshida Kijū. The work also carries her long-term interest in re-examining "Asia" in the history of critical thoughts. Her interdisciplinary works have been published in various international conferences and venues. As a filmmaker, Junnan continues to explore the speculative potential of audio-visual technology. Her works have been exhibited in international film festivals.

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Education

  • PhD, East Asian Studies and Interdisciplinary Humanities
    Princeton University
  • MA, East Asian Languages and Cultures
    Columbia University
  • BFA, Film and TV
    New York University
  • Certificate, 35mm Filmmaking
    The Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU)

Research Interests

  • Cinematic and Visual Cultures
  • Phenomenology
  • Psychoanalysis
  • Extraterrestrial Thinking
  • Feminist Media