Yuriko Furuhata

Yuriko Furuhata is Associate Professor and William Dawson Scholar of Cinema and Media History at the Department of East Asian Studies and an associate member of the Department of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill University. She is the author of “Cinema of Actuality: Japanese Avant-Garde Filmmaking in the Season of Image Politics” (Duke University Press, 2013), which won the 2014 Best First Book Award from the Society of Cinema and Media Studies, and “Climatic Media: Transpacific Experiments in Atmospheric Control” (Duke University Press, 2022), which traces the technological, institutional, and geopolitical connections between Japan and the United States that led to the historical development of artificial fog, weather control, cybernetic environments, metabolic architecture, and networked computing in the 20th century. She is currently working on two new book projects: the first, titled “Into Frozen Archives,” explores scientific photographs and films of clouds, snow, and ice as storage media in relation to the settler colonial histories of geology, meteorology, and glaciology in Japan, Canada, and the United States. The second project, titled “Enchanted Consultation,” examines the cultural techniques and media of divination and prediction through the cultural histories of pseudoscience, including astrology, geomancy, and parapsychology.