Joshua D. Miner

Joshua Miner
  • Associate Professor
  • Director of Graduate Studies
  • Film & Media Studies

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Lawrence

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Biography —

Joshua Miner specializes in sound, music, and writing for animation. As a filmmaker and composer, he uses speculative storytelling and textural sound design as methods for exploring the entanglement of technology and our environment. His scholarship in sound studies, ecological aesthetics, interactive design, and digital image technologies has appeared in Animation, Games and Culture, Screen Bodies, and many other journals and collections. At the University of Kansas, he teaches courses in film aesthetics, scoring for film and games, sound design, and video game development.

Selected Publications —

Miner, J. (2022). Critical Protocols in Indigenous Gamespace. Games and Culture - Issue 1 | Volume 17. https://doi.org/10.1177/15554120211005366.
Miner, J. (2021). Experiments in Hybrid Documentary and Indigenous Model Animation. Animation - Issue 1-2 | Volume 16. https://doi.org/10.1177/17468477211025664.
Miner, J. (2020). Surveying the Frontier: Subjective Rendering and Occlusion in Open World Westerns. gamevironments - Volume 12. https://doi.org/10.26092/elib/180.