Editorial NECSUS by Toni Pape, Martine Beugnet, Greg de Cuir Jr, Ilona Hongisto, Judith Keilbach, Skadi Loist, Maria A. Vélez Serna and Andrea Virginás Special section: #Enough Enough: Reading notes from media studies by Maria A. Vélez Serna, Judith Keilbach, Michał Pabiś-Orzeszyna, Toni Pape, Alejandro Pedregal, James R Price, Becca Voelcker What is enough?: An interview with Toby Miller on degrowth and sustainability in media (studies) by Toni Pape and Mary-Joy van der Deure It is never enough: Exploring the dynamics and aesthetics of enough through video archival testimonies by Özge Çelikaslan and Şirin Fulya Erensoy Doudou Joop: The pirogue of cinema by Jade de Cock de Rameyen and Mamadou Khouma Gueye Living imperfectly between knowledge and despair: Social impact entertainment, activism, and Dark Waters by Karim Townsend The infinite as paradigm: Reframing the limits of AI art by Magdalena Krysztoforska and Oliver Kenny
Features The rise of computational images: The role of star-targeting spectroscopy by Francesco Giarrusso Additive processes as format: The Synchrome Corporation and the politics of early experimental film by Pierre J. Pernuit Movies born online: The formalisation and industrialisation of Chinese internet movies by Katherine Morrow Archival encounters: Institutional critique in contemporary found footage films by Finn D’Amico-Jubak Poetics of refraction, Black subjectivity, and Alice Diop’s Saint Omer by Zina Giannopoulou
Audiovisual Essays: Coronaseries edited by Ariane Hudelet Coping with a pandemic: Television series and COVID-19 by Ariane Hudelet On Being With Normal People by Catherine Fowler The Haunting of Ill House by Pierre-Olivier Toulza Atemporalities and Becomings in the Age of Covid by Barbara Zecchi Utopia by Mathias de Bondt
Festival Reviews edited by Marijke de Valck, Diane Burgess and Antoine Damiens Animal Nature Future Film Festival and its transnational organisational structure by Wendy Wenxin Zhang Films flying high: International Film Festival of the Heights in Jujuy, Argentina by Pablo Salas Tonello
Book Reviews edited by Victoria Pastor-González and Patricia Nogueira From ASCII Art to Comic Sans: Typography and popular culture in the digital age by Siheng Zhu Archaeology of projection and economy of the real by Giancarlo Grossi Feminist Fandoms by River Seager
Exhibition Reviews edited by Miriam de Rosa and Annet Dekker Atmospheric Spaces: Spatial Engagement in Echoes of the Earth and Synchronicity by Il Sun Moon A time panorama: Unpacking ‘Calculating Empires’ by Domenico Quaranta Describing a networked practice through conversation: An interview with Brooklyn J. Pakathi by Carly Whitaker
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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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