Faculty Member, Communication
Associate Professor of Film/Video
Arts & Sciences
About
MFA University of California, San Diego — Visual Arts
BFA University of Arizona — Photography
Research and teaching interests include: experimental, avant-garde, and nonfiction theory and practice; community-based and subject participatory mediamaking; the essay film; video art; personal narrative and diary films; home movies and the representation of family; performance of masculinity; and the environmental documentary.
Niklas is an interdisciplinary artist whose award-winning experimental and documentary work has been exhibited in the US, Canada, Europe and Asia. His most recent work, Environmental Champions, screened on the Olympic Green during the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Niklas has been nominated for a Rockefeller Fellowship and is a current Board Member of the University Film & Video Association (UFVA). Before academia, he was a public television editor.
Contact Information
Department of Communication
P.O. Box 4000
Georgia State University
Atlanta, GA
30302-4000
USA
404.413.5640 (ring)
404.413.5634 (fax)
