Arts Division
PhD Candidate
Graduate
Communications Building
Film and Digital Media
Marilia Kaisar is a scholar, artist and architect from Greece. She is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Film and Digital Media with a designated emphasis on Visual Studies. She holds an MA in Media Studies from Pratt Institute and a Diploma in Architectural Engineering from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Her experimental practice uses affect theory and a feminist perspective to explore intersections of media, technology, and desire, using the body as the nexus point. Bridging the boundaries between theory and practice, her work uses experience and creative practice to theorize how we intimately and sexually relate through technology. Her films have been exhibited in the Small File Media Festival, Bad Video Art Festival, and the Santa Cruz Museum of Art&History. Her work has also been published in MedieKultur: Journal of Media and Communication Research, Passage Journal, Journal of Applied Communication Research, Clog, and Mark Magazine.
Affect Theory, Media Studies, Small File Media and Envrionmental Media, STS, Feminist Theory, Queer Theory, Essay Film, Psychoanalysis in Film, Sexuality
Media Studies, Affect Theory, STS, Visual Culture, Technology, Sexuality, Media Arts, Film Theory, Design, Performance Studies, Feminist Theory, New Materialism, Posthumanism, Critical Theory
Introduction to Media Theory
Experimental Film Production
Film and Architecture
Feminist Filmmaking
Essay Film
Small File Media
Cyberculture
Sex and Technology
2024-2025,Chancellor’s Dissertation Year Fellowship, UCSC
2024, Summer GSI Pedagogy Peer Support Team Fellowship, Teaching and Learning Center, UCSC
2024, The University of the Future Now! Grant, Arts Division DEI Funding
2023, Kenneth R. Corday & Family’s FDM GROW Summer Dissertation Fellowship
2023. UCSC Center for Documentary Arts and Research Online Fellow, The Flaherty Seminar
2023, Humanizing Technology Peer Mentor Fellowship,The Humanities Institute, UCSC
2023, Graduate Pedagogy Fellowship, CITL(Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning)
2022, NEH Humanizing Technology Teaching Fellowship, National Endowment for the Humanities
2021, UCSC-SSRC Dissertation Proposal Development Program,
2021, The Film and Video Poetry Society Award for the film My grandomother and the eating disorder, Small File Media Festival, Simon Fraser Univeristy.
2021. Best Presentation in the Arts Division Award, 7th annual UCSC Graduate Research Symposium, UCSC
In Nisyros: An Instagram Story Poem, Program 6: Cruising/Meandering, 3rd Small File Media Festival, Djavad Mowafaghian Cinema, SFU Woodwards, Aug 11, 2022.
My grandmother and the eating disorder, Small Files: P A S T program as part of the Small File Media Festival’s Greatest Hits night, 3rd Small File Media Festival, Djavad Mowafaghian Cinema, SFU Woodwards, Aug 13, 2022.
My grandmother and the eating disorder, New Normal Series Exhibition, SFU School for the Contemporary Arts lobby, Fall 2021.
My grandmother and the eating disorder, 2nd Annual Small File Media Festival at Simon Fraser University, August 10-20 2021.
How do you Spend your Time in the Quarantine, In These Uncertain Times (Group Exhibition), Museum of Art and History (MAH), Santa Cruz, January-May 2020.
Bluetooth Orgasms in MedieKultur: Journal of Media and Communication Research, 37(71), 143–160. https://doi.org/10.7146/mediekultur.v37i71.125253
A Tinder Lover’s Discourse in Passage Journal #1 Intimate Lineages (September 2021), 37-59 https://www.projectpassage.net/passage1/tinderloversdiscourse
F*cking with the Virtual” in School of X 2023 Proceedings, in Collaboration with xCoAx https://classof23.xcoax.org/paper03.html
Smartphones and the Perception of Space in International Journal of Digital Innovation in the Built Environment (IJDIBE) 11, no.2: 1-13
http://doi.org/10.4018/IJDIBE.301243
The New College Classroom, Collaborative Book Review in HASTAC Commons. Accessible at: https://humanities-arts-media.hastac.hcommons.org/2023/05/23/collective-peer-review-chapter-2-structuring-active-learning-in-the-new-college-classroom/
Solitary reflections on being in-between. Journal of Applied Communication Research 50(sup1), 58–S65. https://doi-org.oca.ucsc.edu/10.1080/00909882.2022.2079920
To be fat and to be looked at, Looking at Feminity Sympodcast, Cardiff University, Episode 8: Artistic Disruption, Aired on May 10
https://lookingatfemininity.wordpress.com/episode-8-artistic-disruption/
How do you Spend your time in Quarantine. Quarantined Across Borders Blog Series. Media Rise, S. Ramasubramanian (Ed.). Accessible at: https://www.mediarisenow.org/qab
