Associate Professor, New Social Research, Tampere University
Asko Lehmuskallio is a scholar in visual studies, digital cultures and media anthropology. He is particularly interested in the interrelations between bodies, technologies and visual cultures. After studying cultural anthropology, peace and conflict studies and study of religion at Philipps-Universität Marburg, Lehmuskallio started his PhD work at the graduate school “Image, Body, Medium. An anthropological approach” at the Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe. He served as researcher at the Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT, and did post-doctoral work at the School of Information at UC Berkeley (as visiting scholar), University of Tampere and University of Siegen. In 2019, he served as Rudolf Arnheim Guest Professor at the Dept of Art and Visual History at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
Recent books include “Entanglements between bodies and documents: A history of the Finnish passport” (2020, with Paula Haara, in Finnish), “Pictorial Practices in a ‘Cam Era’” (2012), “Digital Photography and Everyday Life” (2016, co-edited with Edgar Gómez Cruz) and “#snapshot. Cameras Amongst Us” (2014, co-edited with Anna-Kaisa Rastenberger). His work has been also published by various journals, including International Journal of Communication, Visual Communication, Journal of Aesthetics & Culture & IEEE Pervasive Computing. Lehmuskallio chairs the ECREA Section Visual Cultures and is a co-founder of the Visual Studies Lab.
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