William Uricchio revisits the histories of old media when they were new; explores interactive and participatory documentary; writes about the past and future of television; thinks about algorithms and archives; and researches narrative in immersive and interactive settings. He is Emeritus Professor of Comparative Media Studies, founder and Principal Investigator of the
MIT Open Documentary Lab, and Principal Investigator of the
Co-Creation Studio. He was also Professor of Comparative Media History at Utrecht University in the Netherlands and has held visiting professorships at the Freie Universität Berlin, Stockholm University, the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (Lichtenberg-Kolleg), China University of Science and Technology, and in Denmark where he was DREAM professor. He has received Guggenheim, Humboldt, and Fulbright fellowships, the Berlin Prize, and the Mercator Prize.
His publications include
Reframing Culture; We Europeans? Media, Representations, Identities;
Die Anfänge des deutschen Fernsehens;
Media Cultures;
Many More Lives of the Batman;
Collective Wisdom: Co-Creating Media for Equity and Justice, and hundreds of essays and book chapters, including a visual "white paper" on the documentary impulse (
momentsofinnovation.mit.edu). He is currently leading a two-year research initiative on augmentation and public spaces with partners in Montreal and Amsterdam.
