Dr Ricarda Vidal is a lecturer, translator and curator. Currently she is researching intersemiotic translation and the translator's gaze via her project Translation Games (www.translationgames.net). Ricarda has published on speed, driving, car crashes and our fascination with (spectacular) death, as well as macro-engineering and technological dreams. Besides numerous articles and book chapters, she is the author of Death and Desire in Car Crash Culture: A Century of Romantic Futurisms (Peter Lang, 2013) and co-editor (with Maria-José Blanco) of The Power of Death: Contemporary Reflections on Death in Western Society (Berghahn, 2014) and (with Ingo Cornils) of Alternative Worlds: Blue-Sky Thinking since 1900 (Peter Lang, 2014). Together with the artist Sam Treadaway she also runs the bookwork project Revolve:R (www.revolve-r.com), an exploration of visual communication in collaboration with 24 international artists. www.ricardavidal.com