Joseph Steele

Joseph D. Steele, PhD (U. Colorado Boulder 2023) is a filmmaker, researcher, and curator whose work traces how moving images shape historical and sensory knowledge within conditions of modernity and decoloniality. His ongoing project Archive Poiēsis: On the Practice of Renée Green explores essay film, conceptual art, and archival practice as poetic and critical methods for engaging transnational experience. Based at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, Steele’s films and writing extend these inquiries to experimental nonfiction practices in the Caribbean and Europe. His curatorial collaborations with artist-run labs and media institutions connect theory, practice, [hi-]stories, and the collective work of reimagining archives.