Marc Siegel is Pro­fes­sor of Film Stud­ies at the Jo­hannes Guten­berg Uni­ver­sity in Mainz. His re­search fo­cuses on ex­per­i­men­tal film and gender/queer stud­ies. He also works as a free­lance cu­ra­tor and has co-cu­rated, among other events, the fes­ti­val, pub­li­ca­tion and ex­hi­bi­tion pro­ject Edit Film Cul­ture! (2018), as well as Camp/Anti-Camp. A Queer Guide to Every­day Life (2012). He is a member of the Acad­emy of the Arts of the World in Cologne and co-founder of the artist col­lec­tive CHEAP. As part of the Grad­u­ate Re­search Train­ing Pro­gram, he is par­tic­u­larly in­ter­ested in queer ab­strac­tion.