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Drew Ayers

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About​

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Drew Ayers is an Associate Professor of Film at Eastern Washington University, where he teaches, researches, and writes on the subjects of visual effects, digital technology, visual culture, and nonhuman theory. The author of Spectacular Posthumanism: The Digital Vernacular of Visual Effects (Bloomsbury, 2019), Drew’s work has also been published in Animation, Configurations, Film Criticism, and various edited anthologies. Drew has just completed his next book, Action Bodies: VFX, Identity, and Embodiment in Contemporary Action Cinema. Drew also serves as a board member and senior programmer for the Spokane International Film Festival.

Areas of Focus​

embodiment, phenomenology, performance capture, posthumanism, digital de-aging, image technology and production, digital space, action film, digital aesthetics

Relevant Publications​

Action Bodies: VFX, Identity, and Embodiment in Contemporary Action Cinema
(forthcoming)

The Limits of Transactional Identity: Whiteness and Embodiment in Digital Facial Replacement (2021)

Spectacular Posthumanism: The Digital Vernacular of Visual Effects (2019)

“The Composite Body: Action Stars and Embodiment in the Digital Age” (2019)

“Bleeding Synthetic Blood: Flesh and Simulated Space in 300” (2015)

“Chimeras and Hybrids: The Digital Swarms of the Posthuman Image” (2015)

“The Multilocal Self: Performance Capture, Remote Surgery, and Persistent Materiality” (2014)

“Humans without Bodies: DNA Portraiture and Biocybernetic Reproduction” (2011)

Contact Details

Email:       dayers5@ewu.edu

Website

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