Andrew Syder

Andrew Syder is a digital media artist and a scholar of film and new media. His research ranges from obscure cult movies of the past to ubiquitous digital cultures of the present. He is currently in production on a documentary about Struggle Mountain, a hippie commune located in the hills overlooking Palo Alto, California.

Andrew studied film at the University of Southern California (Ph.D.) and the University of Warwick (B.A. and M.A.). His doctoral research focused on psychedelic visual culture of the 1960s, examining how image-making technologies (photography, cinema, television, video, computers) have been mobilized historically as tools and metaphors for understanding human visual perception.
Before arriving at FSU, Andrew played a central role in the development of USC’s Institute for Multimedia Literacy, a research and teaching center dedicated to expanding the notion of literacy to include the “reading” and “writing” of visual, aural, dynamic, and interactive media.

At the Institute for Multimedia Literacy, Andrew led a collaboration with the USC School of Education to integrate new media literacy skills into pre-service teacher training, and he taught courses and workshops to a wide range of constituents across campus and across the country.