Adam DillerAssistant Professor

His films, sound works, and scholarship challenge our understandings of the ecologies, cultures, and media within which we live. He has exhibited internationally at venues including Anthology Film Archives, Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, Ji.Hlava International Documentary Film Festival, Center on Contemporary Art, Susquehanna Museum of Art, Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival, Athens International Film and Video Festival, Northwest Film Forum, The Knitting Factory, Roulette, Issue Project Room, Sugar Refinery, and D-22. He has released music on labels including Line (12K), Locust Music, Gruenrekorder, DRAFT, Gift Tapes, and Present Sounds. His scholarship has been published in The Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, Studies in Documentary Film, and In Media Res.

His current project is a film, book, and media exhibition that uses Google’s first hyperscale data center in The Dalles, Oregon to rethink the Internet’s long-term effects on our individual and collective relationships with the more-than-human world. Other projects include an edited collection on environmental documentary theory, practice, and pedagogy as well as a feature-length film tracing annual cycles of sound and light next to an elm tree on the shore of Lake Winnebago, Wisconsin.

He teaches courses in sound, film production, and documentary theory/practice. Prior to joining Emory, he taught at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, Temple University, and Rowan University. 

Education

Ph.D., Documentary Arts and Visual Research, Temple University

MFA, Film and Media Arts, Temple University

BS, Video and Sound Art, Brooklyn College