Lisa Bode is Senior Lecturer in Film and Television Studies at The University of Queensland. The author of Making Believe: Screen Performance and Special Effects in Popular Cinema (Rutgers University Press, 2017), she has also published on the evolution of the digital face on screen; the uncanny valley; and the cultural reception of YouTube deepfakes, synthespians, the digital re-animation of deceased screen actors, performance capture, prosthetic makeup effects, and photographic tricks in 1910s and 1920s cinema. She has co-edited a special issue ‘The Digital Face and Deepfakes on Screen’ with Dominic Lees and Dan Golding for Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies. She is on the editorial boards of Bloomsbury's Animation: Key films/filmmakers book series, and Animation Studies, the peer-reviewed, open access journal for the Society for Animation Studies. Lisa has writing in press on deepfakes in animated satire, and the weirdness of generative AI. She is currently completing a book, Deepfakes and Digital Bodies for Rutgers University Press, tracing the cultural, industrial, and aesthetic history of the digital human in filmmaking from 1970s cinema to deepfakes and AI generated video.