A great piece from TCD colleagues advocating resistance to AI. The beauty of learning comes in the process of thinking, the unexpected connections, time spent reading closely; all things that GenAI prevents.

How did we get from "Do not use Wikipedia as a source" to "ask hallucinating chatbot everything"?

here is my new article on mad men, real estate, the past, the future (open access!): www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... this is part of an upcoming special issue of rethinking history on "memories of the future" edited by louis bayman and tim vermeulen

Day 4: "The Masculine Surreal: Damon Packard's AI-Aided Authorship" by Jaka Lombar, Trinity College Dublin mediacommons.org/imr/content/...

Day 3: “Jim Jarmusch as (Instagram) Collage Artist” by Jennifer O’Meara, Trinity College Dublin mediacommons.org/imr/content/...

“The thing about most software startups, though, is that they fail. They take big risks and they don’t pay off and they leave the carcass of that failure behind and start cranking out a new pitch deck.”

Come join us for a conversation with Bluesky’s head of trust and safety on the future of social media, algorithms, and speech. dublininquirer.com/2...

today, for In Media Res, I wrote a short piece on my favorite artifact of internet culture, GONCHAROV, for a theme week on "Auteurs in the Age of Social Media" organized by @caitmurphy.bsky.social. So grateful to Cáit for putting this together! mediacommons.org/imr/content/...

It was great to co-ordinate a theme week for In Media Res. Curators responded to the call with great pieces on auteurs and auteurism in the age of social media. The first post by @oliviastowell.bsky.social on the Goncharov meme is up today! Please share! mediacommons.org/imr/content/...

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

Criterion Channel has a whole bunch of David Lynch content at the moment, but you wouldn't know it if you clicked the link at the top of their page--which only shows you their current selection of Lynch's theatrical releases and early shorts. There's a lot more that the website buries. 1/x

The Sonic Legacy of David Lynch: The Sound of Twin Peaks & beyond: https://www.asoundeffect.com/david-lynch-sound/ #sounddesign #soundeffects #filmsound #filmmaking #audiopost #postproduction #davidlynch #twinpeaks

Post-doc in my department - looking for someone with digital methods and media theory background to work on conspiracy theory/post-truth cultures werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

🔊 New Tenure Track Assistant Professor in Film Studies post at Trinity College Dublin. With a specialism in Irish cinema and/or an aspect of non-Western cinema. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLJ581/a...

🥁 Announcing the Public Domain Image Archive! 🥁 We are v excited to share our new sister-project, the Public Domain Image Archive (PDIA), a curated collection of 10k+ out-of-copyright historical images, all free to explore and reuse: pdimagearchive.org @pdimagearchive

“The OpenSubtitles data set… includes the work of many broadcast journalists, investigative reporters and documentarians... The documentaries in OpenSubtitles include films by Ken Burns, Ava DuVernay, Michael Moore, Asif Kapadia, Werner Herzog, Jehane Noujaim, and Errol Morris.”

If you see a website for a lab, research group, or scholarly organisation languishing, it's because the administrator needs to go through three levels of IT hell to access the back-end.

Soon in OpenAccess and paperback, my new book on urban screens - the trilogy on screen cultures with Amsterdam University Press will be complete! I am very grateful for the generous endorsements by Scott McQuire, Kristy Kang, Stephanie DeBoer and Dave Colangelo.

📢 Filmmakers: Our Public Domain Remix Contest is open! 🎥 Create a short film using public domain material from 1929. 🔜 Deadline: Jan 17 🥇 $1,500 👉 https://blog.archive.org/2024/12/16/2025-public-domain-day-remix-contest-the-internet-archive-is-looking-for-creative-short-films-made-by-you/

Between performative resistance and aestheticized conflicts: In this new #research article, Qianqian Li @utaustintx.bsky.social examines Greta Gerwig's film as an embodiment of the ambivalence of Western popular #feminism. Read here: doi.org/10.1177/1367... #Barbie

Job advert! Lecturer in Digital Futures, with specialisms in art and humanities. Come and join us at Bristol Digital Futures Institute. 80% of your time for first five years will be research and further developing BDFI work across the university and with partners www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

Visited Brian Maguire's La Grande Illusion at the Hugh Lane Gallery today and hard not to extend its commentary on the visual language of war to the atrocities in Gaza, and beyond. Also, expert level curation with this work mirrored in the flawed flooring.

Come work at Aarhus University arts.au.dk/en/about-art...

An exciting film/media history postdoc research fellow role at University of St Andrews on the “Relocating Filmstrips, Remapping Europe” project. www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

📢 Delighted to share that our edited book volume “Doing Digital Film History. Concepts, Tools, Practices” is now published - open access! 🎉 Thanks to all the contributors, collaborators, and my co-editors! ✨ 👉 www.degruyter.com/document/doi... #digitalfilmhistory #digitalmediastudies #dataviz #DH

Great to see the TOC for The Screens of Virtual Production (eds Sian Mitchell, Colin Perry, Sean Redmond & Lienors Torre). 18(!) chapters, covering VP from a whole host of angles, mine provides a genealogy for it by way of rear projection & other compositing tech. www.routledge.com/The-Screens-...

Everyone should be sharing this story about the Amnesty International report because yes many of us have long acknowledged that it’s a genocide but there are still people who need the validation of a report from an org like Amnesty to believe it’s true zeteo.com/p/amnesty-co...

Spotify Wrapped is in its ChatGPT word salad phase.

The Last Showgirl joins the elusive group of film posters that foreground costume over face.

Do check out @jcmsjournal.bsky.social highlights of new research on AI, yours truly and @jomeara.bsky.social made the list quod.lib.umich.edu/j/jcms/18261...

This is interesting and dystopian: a site that shows you what social media companies can learn from the photos you upload. Take screenshots of your photos before uploading them to limit some of the metadata being used here. theyseeyourphotos.com

Birkbeck is advertising an Associate Lecturer in Digital Communication Practice, to teach skills in digital communication (including blogging, vlogging, podcasting, social media and digital publications) in our module Communicating Digitally. Please share! See: cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/asso...

📚 Don’t miss our final book talk of 2024! ⁠ Join VANISHING CULTURE authors & editors Luca Messarra, Chris Freeland & Juliya Ziskina for a roundtable discussion on the growing threats to preserving our cultural heritage.⁠ 🕳️ 📆 Tues, Dec 3 ⏰ 10am PT / 1pm ET 🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/book-talk-...

The new issue of JOURNAL OF e-MEDIA STUDIES has dropped. Its Early Cinema Compendium includes 17 essays and a companion set of 15 newly-created databases of primary sources related to the first four decades of motion-picture film. pub.dartmouth.edu/journal-of-e...

I wrote a little end of year manifestation for you'all. MAY IT EVER BE THUS! www.wired.com/story/the-be...

🚨 Deadline Alert! The JHI is looking for a 2025-26 #DigitalHumanities Postdoctoral Fellow to join our residential Circle of Fellows. Your DH research must relate to our annual theme: Dystopia and Trust. 1/3

Why is (almost) every film and media conference scheduled for the same 3 weeks next May? The decision paralysis is too much.

"Gaza is exposing the final truth of history: there is no way out from the infinite replication of the cycle violence-revenge-violence." Read Franco "Bifo" Berardi's "Intelligent Extermination" on the CI blog. critinq.wordpress.com/2024/11/18/i...

💙 My baby is here 💙 ILUMINACE 2/2024 - OPEN ACCESS - TEXTS & AV ESSAYS What if we stopped asking how computers shape moving images and asked: how is computer iconography represented in audiovisual media? Dive into the complex portraits of computer labor in film & TV. See: bit.ly/3YMMG5m

For all the feminist media scholars who just joined Bluesky...consider submitting a proposal to Console-ing Passions 2025! We're hosting it at Georgia State University and we're looking forward to lively conversations! fmt.gsu.edu/console-ing-...

Stefania Marghitu & I have a new article out: “Seamful Sutures: Gender Exploration and Identity Expression Using Augmented Reality Facial Filters,” in an issue of Global Storytelling on the social mediascape, feminism & misogyny. doi.org/10.3998/gs.5628

The Harris 'Brat' branding is replaying a lot of the playful online discourse from 2016's Trump & Hillary Clinton's campaign, which I looked at in a 2018 Velvet Light Trap article on 'Meme Girls versus Trump' (linked below). www.academia.edu/43087164/Mem...

Only a few days left to submit to our conference “Screen Studies in the Age of Extended Reality & Synthetic Media” (deadline: Feb 20th), taking place at The Long Room Hub in Trinity College Dublin this June 2024. The wonderful Jenna Ng of University of York to deliver the keynote. Share widely!

Gender Studies @ Central European University is hiring an Assistant Professor of Gender Studies with expertise in Feminist Literary Studies and a focus on world literature.

A powerful use of the building as screen, or what Dave Colangelo (2019) terms 'massive media', which can be used for social justice and civic development, as well as for more artistic or commercial uses. youtu.be/R3mfINnoKK8?...

📢 Just over 2 weeks left to submit an abstract (til Feb 16th) for the conference 'Screen Studies in the Age of Extended Reality & Synthetic Media', to take place in Trinity College Dublin on June 4th-5th. Full details: drive.google.com/file/d/1wRg-...

Looking forward to being on a panel at the Göteborg Film Festival, as part of their AI & cinema seminar. Excited for the one-off screening Another Persona, w/ Alma Pöysti appearing in an AI-processed reworking of Bergman's film. Event (29.1) details: program.goteborgfilmfestival.se/en/events/se...

Please check out (and share!) our CfP for the conference 'Screen Studies in the Age of Extended Reality & Synthetic Media', with a keynote by Prof. Jenna Ng. Supported by the Irish Research Council, it will take place in Trinity College Dublin on June 4th-5th. drive.google.com/file/d/1wRg-...