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Erkki Huhtamo is a media-archaeologist. He was born in Helsinki, Finland in 1958, and holds a Ph.D. in Cultural History. He works as Professor of Media History and Theory at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), Department of Design | Media Arts. His work has explored many aspects of media history and the media arts. Huhtamo has written and directed television programs about media culture, performed with artists Golan Levin and Zachary Lieberman on stage, presented magic lantern shows, lectured widely and produced numerous books and articles. He has served in many media art exhibition and festival juries, including Siggraph and Ars Electronica. Recent research has dealt with topics like peep media, media in public outdoor spaces, tactility in media art and the aesthetics of rotating sushi bars. Huhtamo's new book Illusions in Motion: A Media Archaeology of the Moving Panorama is forthcoming from the University of California Press. He has also just co-edited with Jussi Parikka a collection of writings on media archaeology, forthcoming from the same publisher. 

More information: http://www.design.ucla.edu/people/faculty.php?ID=9