Reşat Fuat Çam is a film scholar and filmmaker, currently serving as a full-time faculty member at Istanbul Bilgi University’s Radio, Television, and Film department. His research interests lie at the intersection of moving image technology, philosophy, and critical theory, with a focus on immersive and interactive VR/AR/MR and AI.
He completed his doctoral degree in Cinema and Media Studies at York University, Toronto, in 2019, with a dissertation titled “Virtual Reality Aesthetics and Boundaries in New Media Art Practices.” As a post-doctoral fellow at McGill University’s Moving Image Research Laboratory, he worked on developing a critical framework for artistic practices in VR, examining its underlying techno-utopian paradigm.Additionally, his post-doctoral research at Queen’s University’s Vulnerable Media Lab explored immersive and interactive media practices within archival methodologies. At Kadir Has University, his postdoctoral interdisciplinary research investigated how viewer attention is guided in virtual environments.