With Alice Lovejoy and Pansy Duncan I am editing the first volume dedicated to the material history of film stock. I am also contributing a chapter titled ‘Celluloid Skin: The Racial Materialities of Film Stock’

This project asks whether the movement of artists’ materials around the world from the nineteenth century changed how these products were made, stored and used—and in turn how these transformed material properties informed artistic practices in the metropole. Moving away from the Empire as a locus of extraction or representation, it asks if we can consider colonial modernity as a techno-material, as well as an ideological paradigm in British art. 

With Siobhan Angus I am exploring the ecological and political implications of the use of the rare earth element Europium in the manufacture of colour televisions

With Ranjani Mazumdar (Co-I) and Poorvi Gaur (Network Co-Ordinator) I am the Principal Investigator on the AHRC funded Bombay Film Colour Research Network. We are researching Hindi cinema’s conversion to colour between the 1950s and 1980s.

This project explores the industrial film processing laboratory as a site of geopolitical and aesthetic power. It seeks to reimagine the history of film within the history of print