Laura U. Marks researches media ecology, non-Western media histories, Arab cinema, experimental cinema, Islamic philosophy, aesthetics, and embodiment. Her books include The Fold: From Your Body to the Cosmos (2024), Hanan al-Cinema: Affections for the Moving Image (2015; on experimentation in Arab cinema), and Enfoldment and Infinity: An Islamic Genealogy of New Media Art (2010). Marks programs media art for venues around the world. She leads research on the carbon footprint of streaming media and artificial intelligence and founded the Small File Media Festival, which celebrates movies that stream at extremely low bitrate. With Azadeh Emadi she co-founded the Substantial Motion Research Network of artists and scholars working on non-Western approaches to media. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Marks teaches in the School for the Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, located on the unceded territory of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, Stó:lō, Səl̓ílwətaʔ, and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm nations.