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In 2024, Dr. Karina Griffith joined the Faculty of as Professor of Intersectional Visual and Media Theory at the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK). The visiting professorship is funded by the Berlin Program for the Promotion of Equal Opportunities for Women in Research and Teaching (BCP). She was previously a Lectuer at the Institute for Art in Kontext, at the UdK. In 2021, she joined the curatorial team of the Berlinale Film Festival section Forum Expanded.

In her dissertation, „Flânoirie: The Moving Images of Black German Cinemas,“ she worked on textual analysis of Black German moving images from the 1960s to the present, identifying cinematic strategies of affective representation through common choices and techniques in editing, mise en scène and cinematography to represent feelings associated with mobility. She studied cinema studies at the University of Toronto, Canada and Goldsmiths College.

In 2018, she was a collaborator on the SSHRC Connection Grant for the project “Transnational Perspectives on Black Germany” at the Univerisity of Toronto. The same year, she was selected for the District Berlin Studio Grant, resulting in her first solo exhibition. in 2020, she was a recipient of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Doctoral Fellowship and Research & Creation Grant from the Canada Council for the Arts and was selected for the Helsinki International Artist Program (HIAP) Residency in Suomenlinna, Finland. She is one of 12 fellows selected for the 2025 VILA SUL residency programme in Salvador de Bahia, Brazil.

Her research and arts practice focuses on Black German cinemas, affect studies and formal strategies of affective representation in film, handcraft as media and intersectional projection studies.

Events

Lehrveranstaltungen von Karina Griffith

Links

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