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 […]
We are excited to welcome a new member to our Editorial Board: Andrea Virginás is Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania, Cluj, Romania. Her research concerns mainstream cinema cultures and small national cinemas, focusing on film genres, narration, intermediality, and cultural theory. Her latest volume is Film Genres […]
edited by Josephine Diecke, Dr. Bregt Lameris, and Dr. Laura Niebling With this special section we would like to provide a platform for the debate on media and materiality as it has been evolving with the digital turn. By approaching the topic of materiality and its effects on the basis of material objects, different paths […]
From 22-26 June 2022, the next NECS Conference will be hosted by the National University of Theatre and Film in Bucharest. The theme ‘Epistemic Media: Atlas, Archive, Network’ invites a reflection on the capacity of audiovisual media to organize, create and challenge human knowledge. Keynotes will be delivered by Georges Didi-Huberman (École des hautes études […]
From 20-22 April 2022, the University of St Andrews will be hosting the 10th annual BAFTSS conference. This year’s theme – ‘Collaboration and Cross-pollination” – encourages a shift from thinking about the individual to thinking about the community. Understanding collaboration, and the ecological metaphor of cross-pollination, as methodology, practice and theoretical approach simultaneously, the conference […]
From 8-10 June 2022, Ryerson University (Canada), The University of Texas at Dallas (USA), University of Sao Paulo (Brazil), Leeds Trinity University (UK), and University of Bayreuth (Germany) will be hosting the 4th Interactive Film & Media Conference – exclusively online. Organized around the theme ‘Interactive Epistemology, Listening and Ecomedia’, the conference aims to explore […]
Following a joint series of screenings and presentations, Concordia University, Université du Québec à Montréal, and St. Paul University in Ottawa will be hosting the 3-day conference ‘Pier Paolo Pasolini / Riprese Reprises Retakes’ from 17-19 March 2022 in Montréal and Ottawa. Playing on the richness of the linguistic heritage of Montreal and Ottawa, the […]
With the publication of our Autumn 2021 issue, NECSUS will be celebrating its 10th anniversary. The imminent sense of urgency we felt at the time NECSUS was founded has not diminished but rather intensified over the past years. Drawing a connection from our first issue on #Crisis to the present day, we want to re-evaluate […]
From 14-15 October 2021, the CERILAC and LARCA research institutes at the Université de Paris, will host ‘The Video Essay’, an online conference on the form and future of videographic criticism. Following an introduction by Diane Arnaud, Ariane Hudelet and our editorial board member Martine Beugnet, the conference features presentations by Catherine Grant (Birkbeck, University of […]
On 10 December 2021, the Alternative Research Forum – part of Alternative Film Video 2021, one of the oldest international festivals for new film and video work in Europe– will be hosted as a hybrid online event at Students’ City Cultural Center in Belgrade. For this year’s focus on the Non-Aligned Movement and moving images, […]
Calls to decentre structures of cultural and political power have grown increasingly louder in the pandemic era. The 2021 edition of the Images Festival Research Forum invited different collectives and collective-like bodies of individuals – including Forensic Architecture, the Kinomatics Project and the inaugural curatorial team for the Toronto Biennial of Art – to explore […]
From 28-29 April 2022, Roskilde University will be hosting the conference ‘Media and Publics’. Consisting of a mix of keynote lectures, panels and thematic sessions, the conference aims to explore the shifting notion of ‘publics’ or ‘the public’ from a both theoretical and methodological perspective. Confirmed keynote speakers include Nancy Fraser( Newschool New York), Noortje […]
Martine Beugnet
University of Paris 7 Diderot
Greg de Cuir Jr
University of Arts Belgrade
Ilona Hongisto
University of Helsinki
Judith Keilbach
Universiteit Utrecht
Skadi Loist
Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf
Toni Pape
University of Amsterdam
Maria A. Velez-Serna
University of Stirling
Andrea Virginás
Babeș-Bolyai University
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