Juan Camilo Velásquez
PhD Candidate
Dissertation
Title: One Hundred Years of Simultaneity: A Comparative Analysis of Interwar and Contemporary Visual Media
Supervisor: Allen Weiss
My dissertation compares theories and techniques of simultaneity in interwar cinema and in contemporary audiovisual media. Superimpositions, split screens, rear projections, blue screens, and even the union of sound and image introduced a new set of representational possibilities as two or more durations could coexist in the same image, which in turn produced new modes of spectatorship. I argue that to understand contemporary habits of distraction and aesthetic contemplation, it is crucial to consider this history of simultaneity in the moving image.
Bio
Juan Camilo Velásquez is a PhD Candidate at NYU. His peer-reviewed writing has appeared in Cultural Politics and Film-Philosophy, and he has published criticism in Film Quarterly, Mubi Notebook, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and others.