Biography
Paul Kim is a PhD candidate in the Film and Media Studies department at UC Santa Barbara (UCSB). His work lies at the intersection of critical AI studies, critical race studies, and visual studies. His dissertation titled “Recommending Race” investigates racial subjectivity within the contemporary recommender system. His work has been supported by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center at UCSB (IHC) and the Asian/Pacific American Caucus of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS), among others. He has co-organized the 9th iteration of the Media Fields conference, “Witnessing,” and is on the editing team for the ensuant special issue of Media Fields. His work has been published in AI & Society and upcoming work will be published with the DISCO Network. In his free time, Paul ravenously watches cinema of the 2020s (TikTok and, recently and excitingly, Instagram Reels).