Sylke René Meyer is a Professor, and Associate Director of the MFA program in Creative Writing and Literary Arts at California State University in Los Angeles. She is also the Director of the Institute for Interactive Arts, Research and Technology.
In addition to her work as a media theorist, she is a writer, director, performance artist, and co-founder of the performance group Studio 206 in Berlin (2007), expanded in LA (2019), and the performance group Family Room Collective in Los Angeles, 2018.
Her practice is informed by and engages with film and media history, theory, and criticism, and encompasses feature and documentary filmmaking, as well as writing and collaborative experimentation across theater, new media and digital platforms.
Her work has garnered numerous awards such as an Emmy Award, and Best Film Awards at major festivals such as Seattle, Chicago, and Montreal. Sylke René Meyer is the editor of the recently published collection „Interactive Storytelling for the Screen“.
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