Helen Grace (editor) - Technovisuality: Cultural Re-enchantment and the Experience of Technology

Chris Berry is Professor of Film Studies at Kings College, London. His academic research is grounded in work on cinema and other screen-based media. His primary publications include: Cinema and the National: China on Screen (2006), Postsocialist Cinema in Post-Mao China: The Cultural Revolution after the Cultural Revolution (2004), The New Chinese Documentary Film Movement: For the Public Record ( 2010), Electronic Elsewheres: Media, Technology, and the Experience of Social Space (2010), Cultural Studies and Cultural Industries in Northeast Asia: What a Difference a Region Makes (2009), TV China (edited with Ying Zhu, 2008), Chinese Films in Focus II (2008), and Island on the Edge: Taiwan New Cinema and After (2005).

Amy Chan Kit-Sze is an associate professor of the English department at Hong Kong Shue Yan University. She is also the Director of the Master of Arts Programme in Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies and the Associate Director of the Technoscience Culture Research and Development Centre at HKSYU. She holds a PhD in intercultural studies and her research interests include: cultural studies , technoscience culture, gender studies, literary studies and science fiction . She is particularly interested in exploring the intersections of Deleuzian philosophy, technoscience culture and Chinese culture and philosophy. She has co-edited Science Fiction and the Prediction of the Future (2011) and World Weavers: Globalization, Science Fiction, and the Cybernetic Revolution (2005).

Sean Cubitt is Professor of Film and Television and co-head of the Department of Media and Communications at Goldsmiths, University of London; Professorial Fellow of the University of Melbourne and Honorary Professor of the University of Dundee. His publications include Timeshift: On Video Culture (1991), Videography: Video Media as Art and Culture (1993), Digital Aesthetics (1998) , Simulation and Social Theory (2000), The Cinema Effect (2005), EcoMedia (2005) and The Practice of Light (2014). He has recently co-edited Rewind: British Artists Video in the 1970s & 1980s (2012), Relive: Media Art Histories (2013), Ecocinema: Theory and Practice (2012), and Digital Light (2015). He is the series editor for Leonardo Books at MIT Press. His current research is on environmental impacts of digital media and on media arts and their history.

Helen Grace established the MA Programme in Visual Culture Studies in the Department of Cultural and Religious Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong; most recently she has been a visiting professor at National Central University, Taiwan on a National Science Council Fellowship. She is an associate in the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies and Research Affiliate, Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney. Her most recent book is Culture, Aesthetics and Affect in Ubiquitous Media: The Prosaic Image (2014). She is author of the CD-ROM, Before Utopia: A Non-official History of the Present (2000) and co-author of Home/World: Space, Community and Marginality in Sydneys West (1997) . S he edited the collection Aesthesia and the Economy of the Senses (1996) and co-edited Planet Diana: Cultural Studies and Global Mourning (1997). She is an award-winning filmmaker, photographer and new media producer and her works are included in the collections of the National Gallery of Australia, the Art Gallery of New South Wales, the Art Gallery of South Australia and Artbank.

Janet Harbord is Professor of Film Studies at Queen Mary University of London. She is the author of several books on film and philosophies of screen technologies in the digital age, including Chris Marker: La Jete (2009), The Evolution of Film: Rethinking Film Studies (2007) and Film Cultures (2002), and editor of Temporalities: Autobiography and Everyday Life (with J. Campbell, 2002) and Psycho-politics and Cultural Desires (with J. Campbell, 1998).

Veronica Hollinger is Professor of Cultural Studies at Trent University in Ontario , Canada. She is a long-time co-editor of the journal Science Fiction Studies , and co-editor of five scholarly collections, the most recent of which is Parabolas of Science Fiction (2013). She has published many essays on feminist science fiction, on cyberfiction, on theories of post-modernism and post-humanism, and on recent developments in science fiction theory and criticism.

Michelle Huang Tsung-yi is Professor in the Department of Geography, National Taiwan University and currently Associate Professor, Department of Cultural and Religious Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong . Her research over the last ten years has been concerned with identifying, investigating and creatively revealing new urban phenomena that have radically transformed the urban landscape and everyday life in East Asian metropolises through interdisciplinary critical perspectives. Her books include Walking Between Slums and Skyscrapers: Illusions of Open Space in Hong Kong, Tokyo and Shanghai (2004) and Articulating New Cultural Identities: Self-Writing of East Asian Global City-regions (2008).