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Jennifer Steetskamp (drs./MA) studied Art History and Philosophy at the University of Amsterdam, and Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths College, University of London. During her studies, she participated in a training in exhibition making, organized by UvA and Sandberg Institute. Between 2005 and 2007, she worked as a mediatheque and collection employee at the Netherlands Media Art Institute (NIMk). On behalf of the Jan van Eyck Academie, she conducted research about the history of the academy’s video workplace. Her current position as a PhD candidate is funded by the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA). Her individual research project on installation art and media histories is carried out in the context of the Imagined Futures research group (iFut), which explores the multiple relationships between cinema, media history and the arts from a media archaeological perspective. Alongside, she has been teachingin the Honours Programme “Art and Research”, a joint project of Rietveld Academie and UvA.

Academic functions

• Promovendus / PhD candidate and ASCA Fellow, 2007-2011
• Member of the ASCA research project "Imagined Futures" (iFut)
  
• Lecturer and advisor at the BA Honours Programme "Art and Research", University of Amsterdam/Rietveld Academie, 2009-2011
  
• Guest lecturer at the MA Programme "Presentation & Preservation of the Moving Image" and the BA Course "Visual Art & Television", 2007-2009
  
• Coordinator of the PhD seminar on "Film & Philosophy", 2007-2009

For more information on the Imagined Futures project:

www.imaginedfutures.org