Erkki Huhtamo is a media archaeologist, writer and exhibition curator. He works as professor of media history and theory at the University of California, Department of Design | Media Arts. Professor Huhtamo holds a Ph. D. in Cultural History, and has published extensively on media archaeology and the media arts. His most recent books are a monograph titled Illusions in Motion (a history of the moving panorama), and a collection of writings on media archaeology, edited with Dr. Jussi Parikka (both forthcoming from the University California Press, 2010).