Brief
biography: In the classroom Karyl explores with students the creative and semiotic limits of technologies ranging from Myspace and Facebook to experimental video, Photoshop and online virtual worlds. Her research outside of the classroom continues this focus on technology and digital images (both moving and static) with particular attention to their effects, affects and to the politics of representation in the "Digital Age." Dr. Ketchum has published and contributed to articles on Cultural Studies and Visual Culture in Germany, the U.K., Italy, and the U.S. She received both her M.A. (with Distinction) and her Ph.D. in Cultural Studies at the University of California, Davis where her dissertation, "Technovisual Formalism and the Drive to Mis-Represent in the Age of the Pixel," was nominated for the Alan G. Marr Dissertation Prize, 2004. |
