Timotheus Vermeulen is Professor of Media, Culture and Society at the University of Oslo and joint director of the Media Aesthetics Research Group. He was a visiting scholar in Art History at Harvard in 2023–24 and will serve as joint Principal Investigator on a project on the politics of tone at the Centre for Advanced Study in Oslo in 2027–28. He co-founded the webzine Notes on Metamodernism, co-edits the Bloomsbury series Studies in Metamodernism, and is a regular contributor to Frieze. From 2023 to 2025 he co-hosted the podcast The Cluster F Theory.
Vermeulen writes on media, cultural and aesthetic theory. His latest book is Plastic Time: Gesture on Screen (SUNY, 2026). His work has been translated into more than ten languages, cited well over 3,000 times, and taken up in special issues of journals including English Studies and Screen, as well as exhibitions in Berlin, London, Moscow and New York.
He has spoken at the Venice Biennale, Documenta and Summit at Sea, appeared on BBC radio and in international press, and served on juries and gremia including the Nam June Paik Award and the Bonner Kunstpreis.