Jan Baetens (b. 1957) is Full Professor at the University of Leuven (Belgium), where he teaches the cultural studies program (www.culturelestudies.be).
He is the founding editor or coeditor of the literary journals conséquences (1983-1991), Formules (since 1997), FPC/Formes poétiques contemporaines (since 2002), the bilingual peer-reviewed academic e-journal Image (&) Narrative (since 1999: www.imageandnarrative.net) and the bilingual online art magazine PLACE ( https://www.place-plateforme.com/ ).
He is the (co)author and/or co(editor) of more than fifty volumes and special issues, among which:
The Graphic Novel. An Introduction (with Hugo Frey), New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014.
A voix haute. Poésie et lecture publique. Brussels: Les Impressions Nouvelles, 2016. English translation: Poetry Performed, Louisiana University at Lafayette Press, 2021
The Cambridge History of the Graphic Novel, coedited with Hugo Frey and Steve Tabachnick. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018.
The Film Photonovel, Austin, TX: Texas University Press, 2019
Rebuilding Storyworlds, New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2020,
For an overview of his academic production, see:
http://www.kuleuven.be/wieiswie/en/person/00004749
As a poet, he has published twenty books of poetry (all in French), some of them in collaboration with visual artists such as Olivier Deprez, Milan Chlumsky and Sébastien Conard. In 2007, he has been awarded the « Prix triannuel de poésie de la Communauté française de Belgique ».
For a full overview of his poetic production, see:
Deserted Devices and Wasted Fences: Everyday Technologies in Extreme Circumstances
The Topographic Imaginary: Attending to Place in Contemporary French Photography
Parallel Public: Experimental Art in Late East Germany
Re-Understanding Media: Feminist Extensions of Marshall Mcluhan
Albert Robida: De la Satire À L’Anticipation
Rereading Abstract Expressionism: Clement Greenberg and the Cold War
Brecha De Género en el Audiovisual Español (The Gender Gap in Spanish Audiovisual Production)
Malgré La Ligne Droite : L’Écriture Américaine de Josef Albers
Advertising and the Transformation of Screen Cultures
Gomes Casseres Y Su Banana Series (1907–1920): Imaginación Fotográfica en Postales de Costa Rica [Gomes Casseres and his Banana Series (1907–1920): The Photographic Imaginary of Costa Rica Postcards]
Time, Media, and Visuality in Post-Revolutionary France
Magritte et les Philosophes [Magritte and the Philosophers]
Des Étoiles Nouvelles: Quand la Littérature Découvre le Monde
The Photoromance: A Feminist Reading of Popular Culture
La Conversation Transatlantique: Les échanges Franco-Américains en Poésie Depuis 1968
Les troubles du récit: pour une nouvelle approche des processus narratifs
Peanuts minus Schulz: Distributed Labor as a Compositional Practice/Le travail distribué comme pratique organisationnelle
En cas de malheur de Simenon à Autant-La ra (1956–1958). Essai de génétique scénaristique
A Forest of Symbols: Art, Science, and Truth in the Long Nineteenth Century
Sensations of History: Animation and New Media Art
Imagining Extinction: The Cultural Meanings of Endangered Species
Illegal Literature: Toward a Disruptive Creativity
Art, Time, and Technology by Charlie Gere. Berg, Oxford, U.K. 2006. 138 pp., illus. ISBN: 1-84520-135-2
Roy Ascott: The Syncretic Sense Curated by Paula Orrell. Plymouth Arts Centre, 4 April–24 May 2009.
The Secret War between Downloading and Uploading: Tales of the Computer as Culture Machine by Peter Lunenfeld. The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A., 2011. 144 pp. Trade. ISBN-13: 978-0-262-01547-9
Mute Poetry, Speaking Pictures by Leonard Barkan. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, U.S.A., 2012. 216 pp., illus. Trade. ISBN: 978-0-69-114183-1
Poetic Language: Theory and Practice from the Renaissance to the Present
Rogue Archives: Digital Cultural Memory and Media Fandom
Cognitive Gadgets: The Cultural Evolution of Thinking
Shadows, Specters, Shards: Making History in Avant-Garde Film by Jeffrey Skoller. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A., 2005. 232 pp. Trade, paper. ISBN: 0-8164231-1; 0-8164231-X
TV by Design: Modern Art and the Rise of Network Television by Lynn Spigel. University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London, 2009. 402 pp., illus. Trade. ISBN: 978-0-226-76968-4
The Horizon: A History of Our Infinite Longing by Didier Maleuvre. University of California Press, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A., 2011. 392 pp., illus. Trade. ISBN: 9780520267435
Illusions in Motion: Media Archaeology of the Moving Panorama and Related Spectacles by Erkki Huhtamo. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A., 2013. 456 pp., illus. Trade. ISBN: 978-0-26-201851-7
Rogue Archives: Digital Cultural Memory and Media Fandom
Traversals: The Use of Preservation for Early Electronic Writing
The Aesthetics of Disengagement: Contemporary Art and Depression by Christine Ross. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A., 2006. 244 pp., illus. Trade, paper. ISBN: 0-8166-4538-8; ISBN: 0-8166-4539-6
Between Earth and Sky: Our Intimate Connections to Trees by Nalini M. Nadkarni. University of California Press, U.S.A., 2009. 336 pp., illus. Hardcover, paper. ISBN: 978-0-5202-4856-4; 978-0-5202-6165-5
Air edited by John Knechtel. The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A, 2010. Alphabet City Media Books Series. 320 pp., illus. Trade. ISBN-10: 0-262-01466-1
The Horror Sensorium: Media and the Senses by Angela Ndalianis. Jefferson, NC, U.S.A., and London, U.K.: Macfarland, U.K., 2012. 223 pp., illus. Print (softcover) ISBN: 978-0-7864-6127-1. E-book ISBN: 978-0-7864-9043-1
Modernism and Its Merchandise: The Spanish Avant-Garde and Material Culture, 1920–1930
Digital Renaissance: What Data and Economics Tell Us about the Future of Popular Culture
EPISODE NOTES (click through for transcript and more)
Art critic and curator Annick Bureaud and curator and art historian Natalia Kolodzei discuss COSMOS and CHAOS in the context of their contributions to the February 2021 issue of Leonardo journal on Space Art, a special publication in English and Russian for the CYFEST-13 Media Art Festival. Jan Baetens reviews the new book Peanuts Minus Schultz by Ilan Manouach.
EPISODE NOTES (click through for transcript and more)
Art critic and curator Annick Bureaud and curator and art historian Natalia Kolodzei discuss COSMOS and CHAOS in the context of their contributions to the February 2021 issue of Leonardo journal on Space Art, a special publication in English and Russian for the CYFEST-13 Media Art Festival. Jan Baetens reviews the new book Peanuts Minus Schultz by Ilan Manouach.
