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Deniz Johns is a Lecturer in Film Practice at Lancaster University's Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts (LICA), part of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS). Their interdisciplinary work bridges art-theoretical analysis, film criticism, and practice-based investigations in experimental cinema. They specialize in 20th-century avant-garde film and political aesthetics, focusing on representation of oppression, race, gender identity, and agency. Johns leads undergraduate modules in documentary film theory/practice and transgressive cinema, and contributes to postgraduate research methods in film theory. Their practice-based research explores image negation through absence/distortion to subvert dominant visual cultures, showcased internationally in the Media Blackout series. They co-author critiques of AI aesthetics and supervise PhD candidates like Siyue Liu.
- Research Focus: Queer aesthetics, feminist film theory, Marxist media economies, critical approaches to AI art
- Key Projects: Queer Lives of the Hospital archive, Media Blackout performance series
- Teaching: Undergraduate film studies, MA supervision
