Steve Anderson Appointed Associate Dean of Academic Affairs
UCLA Professor Steve Anderson has accepted the position of associate dean, academic affairs for the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture, effective April 1, 2024. Anderson succeeds Lionel Popkin, a professor of choreography, who recently assumed the position of interim dean at the school.
Since coming to UCLA in 2016, Anderson has taught the production and theory of digital media and documentary in the School of Theater, Film and Television, while also holding a joint appointment in the Department of Design Media Arts.
Anderson has served as Chair of the Faculty for the School of Theater, Film and Television; Interim Chair of the Department of Film, Television and Digital Media; and Vice Chair of Undergraduate Studies. Previously, Anderson taught for 15 years in the USC School of Cinematic Arts, where he was the founding director of the practice-based Ph.D. program in Media Arts + Practice and a faculty member in the division of Interactive Media & Games.
His 2017 book Technologies of Vision: The War Between Data and Images surveys the emergence of competing regimes of computational and photographic image making from the 1830s to the present. With Christie Milliken, he is co-editor of the 2021 anthology Reclaiming Popular Documentary, which won the award for Best Edited Collection from the Popular Culture Association.
His research has received support from the American Council of Learned Societies, the NEH Office of Digital Humanities, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, Adobe Systems, Oculus VR/Meta, Related Content Database, and Google Daydream.
Anderson’s project Live-VR Corridor received the award for Best Mixed Reality at the New Media Film Festival and was featured in the Beijing International Film Festival in 2021. Most recently, he completed a feature documentary, Reality Frictions, which will have its world premiere in 2024.
Anderson received a Ph.D. in Film, Literature and Culture from USC and an M.F.A. in Film and Video from CalArts.
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