Andreas Treske is a filmmaker and media artist. He graduated from the University of Television and Film, Munich, where he also taught film and digital post-production. His interdisciplinary academic and artistic work focuses on film and media arts, emphasizing online video. His movies and interactive media works were screened at well-known international film festivals and exhibition venues. He co-directed the feature-length football documentary "Takim Boyle Tutulur" 2005 and was 2008 the picture editor of Can Dündar's documentary "Mustafa." In 2016, he co-produced the feature-length documentary "Black, Not Gray: Ankara Rocks!." In 2013, he published the internationally well-received essay 'The Inner Life of Videospheres'. His book "Video Theory. Online Video Aesthetics or the Afterlife of Video" was published by Columbia University Press and Transcript in 2015. It was translated into Russian by a Ukrainian Publishing House in 2017. Together with Geert Lovink from the Institute of Network Cultures in Amsterdam, he organized 12 international conferences on Online Video in Amsterdam (The Netherlands), Brussels (Belgium), Valetta (Malta), Ankara and Istanbul (Turkey), Yogyakarta (Indonesia), Zagreb and Split (Croatia), Roma (Italy) and Kochi (India). He edited the 3rd Video Vortex Reader: Inside the YouTube Decade. He is currently the head of the Department of Communication and Design at Bilkent University.