The Communication and Media Research Institute (CAMRI) at the University of Westminster continues its exploration of the role of communication in the context of social and media transformations with a new series of research seminars. The first talk – given by Gavin Mueller (University of Amsterdam) online on 6 October 2021 – is based on […]
On 23 November 2021, ‘Digital Intimacies’ – a research project hosted at King’s College London and the University of Edinburgh – will host a series of talks and a panel discussion situating the findings of the research. With an interest in how queer men use smartphones to negotiate intimacy, the symposium will draw connections between […]
The Department of Cinema and Media Arts at York University invites applications for a Banting postdoctoral fellowship in Cinema and Media Studies (CMS). In an effort to positively transform CMS by creating greater visibility and substantial equity for scholars of color, and address the long history of Black underrepresentation in our discipline, this opportunity is […]
Responding to the current limitations on access to academic research materials, the Public Books Database has compiled a list featuring academic presses with freely accessible titles online. Currently featuring over fifty academic presses from the Columbia University Press to the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, the list will be updated continuously as additional materials are […]
From 2-4 December 2020, Routledge, AMPS and PARADE will be hosting the virtual conference ‘Teaching-Learning-Research’ in collaboration with the Manchester School of Architecture. Connecting education professionals with educators in the fields of art, design and social science disciplines, the interdisciplinary conference aims to interrogate the connection between research and teaching. How are these two activities […]
Alternativa Research Forum, Virtual Anthropology, 13 December 2019 organised by Meghanne Barker and Greg de Cuir Jr Call for submissions: ‘Virtual’ promises to bring us closer to an experience, but acknowledges that it cannot take us all the way there. Researchers and artists have long experimented with the moving image and its potential to bring […]
Alternative Film/Video, 12-16 December 2018, Belgrade On the occasion of the 60th anniversary of Academic Kino Club, founded in Belgrade (then Socialist Yugoslavia, now Republic of Serbia) in 1958, the Alternative Film/Video Research Forum 2018 will be dedicated to the international histories of kino clubs in Europe and beyond. There is a particular postwar history […]
Alternative Film/Video, 13-17 December 2017, Belgrade Perhaps the most referenced statement on politics in cinema is Jean-Luc Godard’s notion that the ideal is not to make political films, but to make films politically. Godard proclaimed this at a turning point in his career – when he turned to alternative forms of cinema, alternative forms of […]
by Catherine Grant By tentatively circumscribing one spectrum or continuum of the field for the purposes of this section – with digital, found footage collage at one end and the film/media essay at the other – we hope to orient the thoughts and works of our contributors and readers toward those audiovisual possibilities that actively […]
Alternative Film/Video Research Forum 2016, Documentary Intersections Alternative Film/Video, 7-11 December 2016, Belgrade Regarding the active fault line between modes of expression in cinema, Bill Nichols wrote about ‘blurred boundaries’ in 1995. Twenty years later Erika Balsom and Hila Peleg wrote about ‘documentary across disciplines’ with a specific focus on alternative forms. Notwithstanding these important recent critical […]
The 2012 and 2013 research forums at Alternative Film/Video Belgrade resulted in the publication of the volume On Fragmentation (2014), edited by forum curator Greg de Cuir, Jr, which anthologized essays based on the various presentations delivered. This volume included work by Dirk de Bruyn, Miriam De Rosa, Bruce Posner, and others. After the 3rd […]
A call has been published for the 3rd Alternative Film/Video Research Forum, hosted at the festival Alternative Film/Video in Belgrade. The festival runs from 9-13 December 2014 and the research forum will be held on 11 December 2014. The organizing theme this year for both the festival and the research forum will be video art. […]
After the success of the 1st Alternative Film/Video Research Forum in 2012, which featured such notable participants as Dirk de Bruyn, Ivan Ladislav Galeta, and others, we are now organizing the second edition of the forum at Alternative Film/Video Belgrade 2013. This one-day event (12 December) running concurrently with the festival will gather a group […]
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
Babeș-Bolyai University
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