Alena Strohmaier is project leader (postdoc) of the research project ‘“But I’m not filming, I’m just doing a bit of video’. Cinematic appropriation processes of protest videos from the Middle East and North Africa since 2009” at Philipps-Universität Marburg (funded by the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research, 2019–2023). She completed her PhD on films of the Iranian diaspora and initiated 2018 the scientific Open Media Studies Blog (Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft, with Sarah-Mai Dang). Her recent publications include the edited volume Re-Configurations. Contextualizing Transformation Processes and Lasting Crises in the Middle East and North Africa, edited with Rachid Ouaissa and Friederike Pannewick (2021) and her first monograph Medienraum Diaspora. Verortungen zeitgenössischer iransicher Diasporafilme (2019). Currently she is editing a book on racism and film (Rassismus und Film, 2022) together with Ömer Alkin and Rauf Ceylan).
Angela Krewani is a full professor of media studies at Philipps-Universität Marburg, with a special focus on the impact of digital media on social practices and art. She is interested in the epistemic, aesthetic, and cultural configurations of digital media. She has widely published on these topics; her publication Medienkunst. Theorie, Praxis, Ästhetik (2016) examines the practices and the developments within media art. She recently co-edited a book on Canadian Ecologies (2020) with Alessandra Boller and Martin Kuester and another on contemporary authorship Constructions of Media Authorship (2020) with Christiane Heibach and Irene Schuetze. Currently she is preparing a publication on Corona and Media with Peter Zimmermann.
