Özgün Eylül İşcen is a film and media theorist and an Affiliated Research Fellow at the ICI Berlin. She is part of the research team Against Catastrophe led by Prof. Orit Halpern and co-edits Counter-N with Prof. Shintaro Miyazaki. She has published in numerous edited volumes, art catalogues, and academic journals such as Ethnic and Racial Studies and Organised Sound. Her edited book Displacing Theory through the Global South (co-edited with Iracema Dulley, 2023) is forthcoming from ICI Berlin Press. İşcen lives and works in Berlin.