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Animal Nature Future Film Festival and its transnational organisational structure

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Introduction Since the 2000s the number of environmental film festivals around the globe has increased significantly; we have witnessed a diversification within eco-themed film festivals, including events focusing on wildlife and environment protection, sustainable food cultivation, animal ethics, and human/animal relations. Among these is Animal Nature Future Film Festival (ANFFF), which was established in 2023 […]

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Atmospheric Spaces: Spatial Engagement in Echoes of the Earth and Synchronicity

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When I first enter the room, I follow a small pathway, and my eyes struggle in the darkness. My senses are strained, but I can feel the vibrations of sound from a distance and begin to feel excited in anticipation of a new experience. A dim light emitted from afar assaults my eyes, but as […]

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Films flying high: International Film Festival of the Heights in Jujuy, Argentina

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Argentina is usually known for two leading film festivals: BAFICI (Buenos Aires International Independent Film Festival), known for its attraction to cinephiles, and Mar del Plata International Film Festival, the only A-list festival in Latin America. However, the country has a rich circuit of film events that are little known outside its boundaries, mainly due […]

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From ASCII Art to Comic Sans: Typography and popular culture in the digital age

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Karin Wagner’s From ASCII Art to Comic Sans: Typography and Popular Culture in the Digital Age presents a fascinating exploration of how typography has been shaped and reshaped by socio-cultural and historical influences. Focusing on four distinct phenomena within the practice of typography, Wagner traces their unexpected ‘usage, design, printing as well as dispersion’ (p. […]

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Archaeology of projection and economy of the real

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Two recent books find common ground in radically rethinking the projective function of media technologies. The first is Pasi Väliaho’s Projecting Spirits: Speculation, Providence, and Early Modern Optical Media (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2022), a detailed media archaeological investigation into the role of optical and projection devices in reorganising the concept of the world at […]

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Feminist Fandoms

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Briony Hannell’s Feminist Fandoms: Media Fandom, Digital Feminism, and Tumblr (Bloomsbury Academic, 2024) is an ethnographic exploration of the culture of feminist fandom found on the titular social media platform Tumblr. Hannell uses interviews with 342 participants to explore how the platform has developed a culture of feminist consciousness-raising which has, the book argues, helped […]

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A time panorama: Unpacking ‘Calculating Empires’

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Calculating Empires: A Genealogy of Technology and Power, 1500-2025 took place at Osservatorio Prada, Milan between 23 November 2023 and 29 January 2024. The venue proved curiously appropriate for the exhibition conceived by artists and researchers Kate Crawford and Vladan Joler, engaging with a project about imperialism, control, time, politics, and technology in an intriguing, […]

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Describing a networked practice through conversation: An interview with Brooklyn J. Pakathi

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In an attempt to understand different perspectives and voices on digital art in South Africa within a Global South/Majority World context, I interviewed transmedia artist Brooklyn J. Pakathi on 2 March 2023 via Zoom to hear their views on networked online curatorial practices and how these types of practices often diffuse the line between artist […]

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Opening up, closing down: An interview with Lisa Parks on Media Backends

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by Judith Keilbach and Linda Kopitz Lisa Parks is Distinguished Professor of Film and Media Studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara and Director of the Global Media Technologies and Cultures Lab, which explores uses of media technologies – from satellites to television and mobile phones – in diverse international contexts. Her work […]

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On Distant Viewing

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Ten years after Franco Moretti’s Distant Reading,[1] Taylor Arnold and Lauren Tilton released their book Distant Viewing (MIT Press, 2023), where they explore the ‘methodological and epistemological implications of using computer vision as a tool for the study of visual messages’. (p. 11) When Moretti used his concept of ‘distant reading’, although the study of […]

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The Look For Sit Down

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by Nicolas Bailleul As a mostly stationary filmmaker, I was inclined to believe that documentaries filmed in offices and in bedrooms would erase the physical presence of the auteur. While viewing desktop documentaries I asked myself if the physical traces on screen of the stationary documentary filmmaker, such as the uncontrollable camera shaking that might […]

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Meeting/Eating Meat Joy: Productive (mis)understandings in feminist performance art legacy and self-authorising critique through the video essay 

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by Chloé Lavalette  My research trip to New York at the beginning of 2017 closely followed the brutal and unexpected death of my 63-year-old father Christian Lavalette. He was a recently-retired man, a graphic designer, a painter, engraver and editor, and died in three days from a septicemia while he was himself on a trip […]

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Twisties!

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by Alice Lenay and Théophile Gay-Mazas In this visual and performative setup, my body is embedded in a video of the Olympic Games. We focus on a specific sequence from the 1996 Olympics, when the gymnast Kerri Strug injured her ankle but continued the competition to win the gold medal for her team. By being […]

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xena’s body

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 xena’s body by Occitane Lacurie https://vimeo.com/879454111 How close is my phone to my body? How far does the entanglement of knowledges and power that dwells on my screen under my fingertips take the data I feed it? First, I thought my iPhone was the technologically-enhanced version of the little hand mirror one uses to […]

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CORPS CANAPÉ

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by morgane frund Link to the audiovisual essay I don’t really like to think about my body, let alone be creative with it. I hardly ever dance or perform ‘physically’. I tend to rely a lot more on words and voice to express myself. Because of that, I decided to approach the theme from a […]

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