NECSUS is now inviting abstract submissions for the Features section of our Autumn 2023 issue. Articles in the Features section are full-length research articles on a variety of themes related to media studies but not necessarily connected to a special section topic. For articles published in the Autumn 2023 issue, we accept abstracts until 15 […]
We are now inviting proposals for audiovisual essays exploring questions of cyclicality, circularity, and recursivity for our Autumn 2023_#Cycles issue – from loop films to televisual recursivity and gameplay loops to NPC life. The figure of the loop has become a staple technique of contemporary narrative art. In films and television series, time loops are […]
From 13-17 June 2023, the next NECS Conference will be hosted by the University of Oslo, Norway. This year’s theme ‘Care’ invites cinema and media scholars to come together to think about care and its implications across film and media history and into the digitally mediatised cultures of the 21st century. The local organizing team […]
This special section invites submissions that engage with questions of cyclicality, circularity, and recursivity in relation to media. Film history is traversed by the serial logic of production (such as silent serials, B-movies, and ephemeral sub-genre cycles) as well as the embracing of tropes of circularity bound by the Deleuzian time-image. Well beyond this purview, […]
On 12 October 2022 at 18.00 (CEST), NECS and the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis will host this year’s first lecture in the online series on ‘The Call for an Image-Object. On Gianikian & Ricci Lucchi and Armenity’. Borrowing from recent literature in material culture, the lecture offers a close look to the video Return to Khodorciur: Armenian […]
NECSUS is now inviting abstract submissions for the Features section of our Spring 2023 issue. Articles in the Features section are full-length research articles on a variety of themes related to media studies but not necessarily connected to a special section topic. For articles published in the Spring 2023 issue, we accept abstracts until 15 […]
For the book review section in NECSUS, we are currently looking for contributions for the Spring and Autumn 2023 issues – focusing on either one publication or bringing two or more publications into a dialogue with each other. The book review section in NECSUS publishes critical writing on recent publications that fall within the broad […]
edited by Dr. Maria Vélez-Serna and Dr. Markus Stauff Connecting infrastructures and logistical mediation Ports – the harbours that allow and regulate circulation across land and sea and the interfaces that connect electric devices with peripherals – are places of especially intense mediation and thus of heightened socio-technological drama. The seaport is the condition for transport […]
On 7 June 2022 from 18-20h (CEST), the ICOG theme group Arts, Medium, and Moving Images at the University of Groningen will host this year’s final Research Colloquium on ‘The Cinematic Image: A Radically Novel Form’. In this talk, Tom Gunning (Professor Emeritus at the University of Chicago) will investigate the novelty of the cinematic image: its […]
NECSUS is now inviting abstract submissions for the Features section of our Autumn 2022 issue. Articles in the Features section are full-length research articles on a variety of themes related to media studies but not necessarily connected to a special section topic. For articles published in the Autumn 2022 issue, we accept abstracts until 30 […]
From 28-29 July 2022, the University of Bonn, Germany, will be hosting the ‘Digital Ecologies 2022’ conference as a two-day hybrid event – with both in-person and online attendance possible.Organized around the theme “Digital Ecologies in Practice”, the conference encourages scholars and practitioners to explore digital technologies, approaches and methods to engage with the non-human […]
The recurring lecture series ‘Digital Delights and Disturbances’ hosted by John Cabot University, Rome, features leading scholars, artists, and mediamakers to discuss big data, artificial intelligences and algorithmic prediction from a variety of perspectives. On 10 March, Felix Stalder, Geraldine Juàrez, Andrea Baronchelli explore the technopromises of a blockchain future and culture in their lecture […]
Taking place once per month in March, April and May, the seminar series ‘The Archive on Screen: Art and Cinema towards Visual Culture’ explores the relationships between the screen and the archive. Supported by the graduate program in History of the Arts at Ca’ Foscari, University of Venice, and organized by Cristina Baldacci and our […]
From 20-21 October 2022, the Université de Paris, France, will be hosting the hybrid conference ‘CINEMATERIALISM: New Materialist Approaches to the Audiovisual (Cinema, Media, Digital Arts)’. With the aim to explore the reconfiguration of the notion of “materialism” in research on audiovisual cultures, the conference invites materialist analyses of films, theoretical approaches as well as […]
We have the great pleasure to welcome another new member to our Editorial Board: Judith Keilbach, Associate Professor in the Media and Culture Studies Department at Utrecht University. Her research focuses on the transformation of television and on media technologies and infrastructures. She is currently working on a project about transnational media events and is interested […]
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Martine Beugnet
University of Paris 7 Diderot
Greg de Cuir Jr
University of Arts Belgrade
Judith Keilbach
Universiteit Utrecht
Skadi Loist
Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf
Toni Pape
University of Amsterdam
Belén Vidal
King’s College London
Andrea Virginás
Sapientia University