Alternative Research Forum – ‘Desktop Cinemas’

As part of ‘Alternative Film Video’, the international festival for new film and video work taking place from 9-13 December 2020 in Belgrade, NECSUS managing editor Greg de Cuir Jr and exhibition reviews editor Miriam de Rosa are organizing the ‘Alternative Research Forum’ on the topic of Desktop Cinema. Organised as a fully online event on 11 December 2020, the ‘Alternative Research Forum’ offers a focussed, intimate environment in which academics, artists, curators, writers and researchers of all types are invited  to share thoughts and promote the exchange of ideas. For this year’s topic Desktop Cinemas, the organizers are inviting abstracts (300 words) for submissions embracing a theoretical or an applied take in regards to audiovisual pieces often labeled as “desktop cinema”. Potential topics include (but are not limited to) definitions of desktop cinema, an archeology of desktop cinema as well as submissions interested in the techniques and interfaces employed in desktop cinema from a theoretical, philosophical or meta perspective. For inquiries and submissions please contact Greg de Cuir Jr, Selector for Alternative Film Video (gdecuir@yahoo.com), and Miriam de Rosa, Centre for Postdigital Cultures at Coventry University (miriam.derosa@gmail.com), by 30 October 2020.