On November 8, 2018, I presented a pop-up version of the Videographic Frankenstein exhibition at the Library of Congress, in the context of an event called Playtest convened by Tahir Hemphill. This video, shot that day, gives a glimpse of the projects presented there. You’ll find me talking about Videographic Frankenstein shortly before the 1:00 minute mark.
Month: December 2018
Desktop Horror at Merz Akademie
Poster for my talk tomorrow (Dec. 18, 2018) on “Desktop Horror” at Merz Akademie in Stuttgart!
Out Now: Serial Figures and the Evolution of Media in NECSUS
The latest issue of NECSUS: European Journal of Media Studies has just come out. As always, it is freely accessible as an open-access publication, and it is chock full of articles, reviews, audiovisual essays, and a special section on “Mapping.”
Among the feature articles is an article I co-authored with Ruth Mayer on “Border Crossings: Serial Figures and the Evolution of Media” — a text that outlines some of the topics we covered in our research project within the DFG Research Unit on “Popular Seriality” from 2010 – 2013. This is a slightly revised translation of a text that first appeared in German in Frank Kelleter’s edited collection Populäre Serialität: Narration – Evolution – Distinktion. Zum seriellen Erzählen seit dem 19. Jahrhundert. We are happy to see this text made available in English, and especially happy that it found a home at NECSUS, which is the perfect venue for this transatlantic and interdisciplinary kind of media studies work.
Check out the whole issue here!
Talks & Events: Switzerland/Germany, December 2018
This coming week, I will be heading out to Europe for a series of talks and events in Switzerland and Germany, where I will be presenting work related to my forthcoming book Discorrelated Images as well as videographic scholarship (including the recent Videographic Frankenstein exhibition).
Here is a list of talks/events:
- Post-Cinematic Prometheus: From Frankenstein to Ex Machina — University of Basel — December 13, 2018
- Life to Those Pixels: Imag(in)ing Future Bodies of Film and Media — University of Zurich — December 14, 2018
- Participatory Horror: Glitches, Ghosts, and Networked Images — University of Siegen — December 17, 2018
- Desktop Horror — Merz Akademie Stuttgart — December 18, 2018
- Videographic Frankenstein — University of Hannover — December 19, 2018
- Videographic Criticism as Digital Research Practice: The Video Essay in Conversation (with Kathleen Loock) — JFK Institute, Freie Universität Berlin — December 20, 2018
Videographic Criticism as Digital Research Practice — Dec. 20 at JFK Insitute, Berlin
On Thursday, December 20, 2018 (2-4pm) at the JFK Institute at the Freie Universität Berlin, Kathleen Loock and I will be discussing “Videographic Criticism as Digital Research Practice.” Hoping to see some Berlin-based friends there!
Syllabus: Aesthetics and Phenomenology (Stanford, Winter 2019)
Syllabus: Post-Cinema (Stanford, Winter 2019)
Participatory Horror at University of Siegen — Dec. 17, 2018
On December 17, 2018, I will be giving a talk titled “Participatory Horror: Glitches, Ghosts, and Networked Images” at the University of Siegen. Thanks to Marcel Hartwig and Daniel Stein for making this happen!