Steve F. Anderson is an American academic. He is a professor of

digital media In mass communication, digital media is any media (communication), communication media that operates in conjunction with various encoded machine-readable data formats. Digital content can be created, viewed, distributed, modified, listened to, an ...

at the

UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television The UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television (UCLA TFT), is one of the 12 schools within the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) located in Los Angeles, California. Its creation was groundbreaking in that it was the first time a leadi ...

. He was previously an associate professor in the USC Interactive Media & Games Division.

Career

Anderson received his

Master of Fine Arts A Master of Fine Arts (MFA or M.F.A.) is a terminal degree in fine arts, including visual arts, creative writing, graphic design, photography, filmmaking, dance, theatre, other performing arts and in some cases, theatre management or arts admi ...

in Film and Video from

CalArts The California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) is a private art school in Santa Clarita, California. It was incorporated in 1961 as the first degree-granting institution of higher learning in the US created specifically for students of both the ...

in 1990 and his

Ph.D. A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD, DPhil; or ) is a terminal degree that usually denotes the highest level of academic achievement in a given discipline and is awarded following a course of graduate study and original research. The name of the deg ...

in 2001 from the Film, Literature & Culture program at the

University of Southern California The University of Southern California (USC, SC, or Southern Cal) is a Private university, private research university in Los Angeles, California, United States. Founded in 1880 by Robert M. Widney, it is the oldest private research university in ...

under the direction of Professors David E. James,

Marita Sturken Marita Sturken (born 1957) is an American scholar, author, professor, and critic. Life and work Marita Sturken is Professor and former Chair of the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University's Steinhardt School of Cul ...

, and

Leo Braudy Leo Braudy (born June 11, 1941) is and American academic who is University Professor and Professor of English at the University of Southern California, where he teaches 17th- and 18th-century English literature, film history and criticism, and Am ...

. Anderson known for his contributions to the fields of

digital humanities Digital humanities (DH) is an area of scholarly activity at the intersection of computing or Information technology, digital technologies and the disciplines of the humanities. It includes the systematic use of digital resources in the humanitie ...

, scholarly electronic publishing, fair use advocacy and technocultural studies. He served as founding director of the Ph.D. program in Media Arts and Practice at the

USC School of Cinematic Arts The USC School of Cinematic Arts is an academic unit of the University of Southern California, in Los Angeles, California, Los Angeles. With a history that dates to the first years of Sound film, talkies, the school descends from America's first ...

. He co-edits the interdisciplinary electronic journal Vectors Journal of Culture and Technology in a Dynamic Vernacular and is the founder of Critical Commons, an online media archive and fair use advocacy network. He is author of the books ''Technologies of Vision: The War Between Data and Images'' (MIT 2018) and ''Technologies of History: Visual Media and the Eccentricity of the Past'' (Dartmouth 2011). With Christie Milliken he is co-editor of the anthology ''Reclaiming Popular Documentary'' (Indiana University Press 2021), which won the award for Best Edited Collection from the Popular Culture Association in 2022.Popular Culture Associatio
"The winner of the Browne Best Edited Collection is Christie Milliken and Steve F. Anderson!"
/ref> ''Technologies of History'' marks an intervention in the academic sub-field of Film and History, which has largely focused on the accuracy and verifiability of cinematic and televisual history, especially in the genres of documentary and historical epics.Steve F. Anderso

"Introduction to ''Technologies of History'' (Dartmouth College Press 2011)"] Anderson's book advocates consideration of the historiographical value of non-traditional (what he terms "eccentric") forms of visual history including experimental film and video, fake documentary, found footage, science fiction time travel and digital games. D. L. LeMahieu's book review in the journal

Film & History ''Film & History: An Interdisciplinary Journal'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal founded in 1970 and dedicated to the interdisciplinary study of film, television, and other moving-image arts. It is currently hosted by Lawrence University (Appl ...

notes that "Anderson’s validation of the idiosyncratic and experimental opens new areas of research and analysis for historians."D. L. LeMahieu
"Modular Narratives in Contemporary Cinema by Allan Cameron, and: Abandoned Images: Film and Film's End by Stephen Barber, and: Technologies of History: Visual Media and the Eccentricity of the Past by Steve F. Anderson"
/ref> In 2007, Anderson and

Holly Willis Holly Willis is a Professor and Chair of the Media Arts and Practice division in the USC School of Cinematic Arts United States. Previously, she served as Associate Dean of Research and Founding Chair of Media Arts and Practice, as well as Dire ...

won a

HASTAC HASTAC (/ˈhāˌstak/), also known as the Humanities, Arts, Science and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory, is a virtual organization and platform comprising over 18,000 individuals and more than 400 affiliate institutions. Members of the HAS ...

MacArthur Foundation The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation is a private foundation that makes grants and impact investments to support non-profit organizations in approximately 117 countries around the world. It has an endowment of $7.6 billion and ...

Digital Media and Learning grant to create ''CriticalCommons.org'', public media archive. In 2014-15 he received a prestigious Digital Innovation Fellowship from the

American Council of Learned Societies The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) is a private, nonprofit federation of 75 scholarly organizations in the humanities and related social sciences founded in 1919. It is best known for its fellowship competitions which provide a ra ...

(ACLS) to support his project "Technologies of Cinema: A Critical Digital Archive and Multimodal History of the American Technocultural Imaginary."American Council of Learned Societie
"ACLS Awards 2014 Digital Innovation Fellowships to Seven Scholars"
/ref>

References

External links

''Technologies of Vision: The War Between Data and Images''

Critical Commons

''Vectors Journal''
*
''Reclaiming Popular Documentary''

Biography
{{DEFAULTSORT:Anderson, Steve F. UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television faculty Living people 1963 births USC School of Cinematic Arts alumni California Institute of the Arts alumni