Ute Holl is a filmmaker, media scholar and professor for media aesthetics at Basel University. Her research focuses on a media-history of perception and on the epistemology of audiovisual media. She has published on film and cinema as well as on the mediahistory of acoustics and electro-acoustics. On Maya Deren, she published e.g. Choreographie für eine Kamera, Schriften zum Film (1995, co-edited by Jutta Hercher) and Cinema Trance and Cybernetics (2017).