Dr. Laura U. Marks is the author of "The Skin of the Film: Intercultural Cinema, Embodiment, and the Senses" (Duke, 2000), "Touch: Sensuous Theory and Multisensory Media" (Minnesota, 2002), "Enfoldment and Infinity: An Islamic Genealogy of New Media Art" (MIT, 2010), and many essays. She has curated over 40 programs of experimental media art for venues around the world. She is the Dena Wosk University Professor in the School for the Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada.