Carmen Victor
York & Ryerson Universities
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Carmen Victor is a PhD candidate in Communication and Culture at York/Ryerson Universities in Toronto, Canada; her work within the Arts theme of CUSP is concerned with developing the idea of a visual culture of the anthropocene.
Carmen Victor is a former CUSP PhD researcher in Communication and Culture at York/Ryerson Universities in Toronto, Canada. Her writing on contested landscapes, installation art, cinemas of the circumpolar North and time-based and experimental film and media has appeared in Prefix Photo, Ciel Variable and Seismopolite: Journal of Art and Politics, Journal of Science Fiction Film & Television as well as in edited volumes published by Pleasure Dome (Toronto) and Kerber Verlag (Berlin). She currently teaches in the Department of Communication Studies at York University.
Recently, the idea of an anthropocene geologic era has received a significant amount of critical attention. While we cannot ‘see’ the anthropocene, we can experience its effects. Victor’s work within the Arts theme of CUSP is concerned with developing the idea of a visual culture of the anthropocene.