Owen Lyons

Dr. Owen Lyons, Cultural Mediations Ph.D. (2015), An Inverted Reflection: Representations of Finance and Speculation in Weimar Cinema. (Supervisors: Professors Barbara Gabriel and Mitchell Frank). Owen is an Assistant Professor at the School of Image Arts at Toronto  Metropolitan University. He works at the intersection of media archaeology, documentary, digital media, and critical theory. His forthcoming book (Amsterdam University Press) examines representations of finance during the Weimar Republic and the intersection of the emergence of the world economy with concepts of modernity, nation, gender and technology. His current research projects include Liquid Screens: The Media Landscape of Financial Markets (which addresses the visual culture of 21st-century financial markets and their reflection in digital media) and an examination of the application of artificial intelligence to cinema entitled Machine Learning and the Moving Image.