Lisa
Parks is an Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at UC Santa Barbara.
She is the author of Cultures
in Orbit: Satellites and the Televisual (Duke University Press 2005) and co-editor of Planet
TV: A Global Television Reader (NYU Press 2003). Her research explores uses of satellite, computer
and television technologies in a transnational context. She has published
essays in numerous books and in journals such as Screen, Television and
New Media, Convergence, Ecumene: A Journal of Cultural Geography, Social
Identities, Quarterly Review of Film and Video, and Vectors. She is also
co-producer of media arts projects such as Experiments in Satellite Media
Arts with Ursula Biemann (2002), Loom with Miha Vipotnik (2003), Postwar
Footprints (2005) and worked on the Object
of Media Studies project with
Amelie Hastie (2006). She is a co-investigator in internationally funded
projects including the Missing Links/Oxygen Media Research Project (UCSB-Utrecht)
and the Transcultural Geography Project (Zurich-Cologne-Ljubljana). Parks
serves on the editorial boards of Cultural Studies, Film Quarterly, The Velvet Light Trap,
and e-media, and is research director for the Center
for Information Technology and Society at UCSB. She is currently writing a new book called
Mixed Signals: Media Infrastructures and Cultural Geographies and is
a research fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg (Institute for Advanced Study) of Berlin in 2006-2007.