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Speakers & Chairs

  • Sara Akhlaq [canceled]

    Sara is doing a PhD in Humanities Data Science and Methodology at the Technischen Universität Darmstadt. At the same time, she is also working as a Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter at Museum für Naturkunde Berlin. In both her PhD and her museum research, Sara is trying to look at the digitisation processes at museums and archives from an intersectional feminist and anti-colonial perspective. In her PhD, Sara is developing data representation strategies that could highlight the colonial influences in digital museums and archival collections. Similarly, at MfN, Sara is working on a project called Virtual access to fossil and archival material from the German Tendaguru Expedition (1909-1913). Sara’s responsibility in the project is to develop a research data platform that will have thorough information not only about the thousands of dinosaur bones that the museum has but also about the colonial circumstances under which these bones became part of the museum.

  • Miriam Akkermann

    Miriam Akkermann is a musicologist currently holding the Ernst-von-Siemens Endowed Professorship for Music at FU Berlin, Germany. Her research areas include music of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, computer music and music technology, digital musicology, musical performance practices, as well as archiving music. She is the research coordinator of the MSCA DN Lullabyte, in which she leads a project that examines the effect of music on sleep with a focus on music. Akkermann studied advanced design, flute, and music and new technologies in Bolzano, Italy, as well as audio communication and composition in Berlin, Germany. In 2014 she received her PhD in musicology from the Berlin University of the Arts and completed her habilitation at Bayreuth University in 2023.

  • Sarah Arnold

    Sarah Arnold is Associate Professor at Maynooth University, Ireland. Her books include Gender and Early Television (Bloomsbury, 2021); Media Graduates at Work (co-authored with Anne O’Brien and Páraic Kerrigan, Palgrave, 2021); Maternal Horror Film (Palgrave, 2013) and the Film Handbook (co-authored with Mark De Valk, Routledge, 2013). Her research interests include women and media work, as well as media education and transitions into work. Her research is published in journals including Creative Industries Journal; Cultural Trends; Industry and Higher Education; and Women’s History Review.

  • Clara Auclair

    Clara Auclair is a film scholar and preservationist based in Stockholm, Sweden. Clara earned her doctorate from University of Rochester and Université Paris Cité and is a graduate of The L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation. Clara’s research focuses on the history and memory of the French film community in New Jersey in the 1910s and reflects on the provenance of archival collections, the tensions governing family and institutional archives, and the writing of history in film studies. Clara has been a member of the executive committee of Domitor, the international association for early film research, since 2016, and its secretary since 2019.

  • Melanie Bell

    Melanie Bell is Professor of Film History at the University of Leeds. A historian of British cinema she has written widely on many aspects of women in film history. Drawing on feminist methodologies she works with oral histories, labour records, photographs, and ephemera in her scholarship to recover women's below the line labour in film production and tell film history differently.

  • Theresa Blaschke

    Theresa Blaschke studied Cultural Data Studies at the Philipps-Universität Marburg. Since November 2022, she works as a Digital Humanist in the VolkswagenStiftung funded project "Digital Cinema-Hub (DiCi-Hub): A Research Hub for Digital Film Studies". Her fields of expertise are Text Mining, Network Analysis, and Data Visualization.

  • Anna Bohn

    Dr. Anna Bohn is a researcher for Audiovisual Strategic Development at Berlin Central and Regional Library (ZLB) and a lecturer for “Multimedia in libraries” at the Institute for Library and Information Science, Humboldt University Berlin. She is spokesperson for the Audiovisual Resources Working Group at the Committee for Library Standards in German-speaking countries, and Chair of the IFLA Audiovisual and Multimedia Section. She has previously worked as a researcher for the EU project CENDARI Collaborative European Digital Archival Infrastructure at the Free University Berlin, the Cinematheque of the German Historical Museum Berlin, the Deutsche Kinemathek - Museum für Film und Fernsehen Berlin and the Film Institute of the Berlin University of the Arts. She studied Library and Information science in Berlin and Slavic and Hispanic Studies in Madrid, Munich and Moscow; she completed her doctorate at the LMU Munich with a dissertation on Sergei Eisenstein’s film and art theory. Publications: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9625-3069.

  • Katharina Brunner [canceled]

    Katharina Brunner is part of the Forum Queeres Archiv München, a community archive. Currently, she works on her second project funded by the Prototype Fund to build Queersearch, a digital research platform. Also, she is an investigative data journalist at BR Data/BR Recherche. Her work has received multiple awards, including the Nannen Prize for an investigation at Süddeutsche Zeitung into how the mood in the Bundestag changed with the AfD's entry into parliament. She also won the Journalism Award for Computer Science from Saarland University for her analysis of a Chinese surveillance app.

  • Charlotte Bruns

    Charlotte Bruns is a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at the School of History, Culture and Communication at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. Her research activities lie in the fields of visual sociology and communication and the theory and history of visual media. Charlotte received her PhD at the Faculty of Philosophy from Chemnitz University of Technology. Her recent research on the ways of use of stereophotography has been recognized with the Thinking Photography Research Award by The Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Photographie (DGPh).

  • Sonia Campanini

    Sonia Campanini is a film and media scholar with a research focus on archiving, restoration, curating and circulation of global film cultures. From 2015 to 2022 she was assistant professor for film culture at the Department of Theatre, Film and Media Studies at Goethe University, and then visiting professor at the Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf. She is currently researching the production and circulation of Nigerian and South Korean film cultures in the frame of the research project Cultural Entrepreneurship and Digital Transformation in Africa and Asia at Goethe University.

  • Isadora Campregher Paiva

    Isadora Campregher Paiva is a lecturer in Film, Television and Cross-Media Culture at the University of Amsterdam. She has an MA in Audiovisual and Cinema Studies from the Goethe University Frankfurt and an MA in Sociology from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS). Between 2021 and 2023, she worked as a research associate in the Volkswagen Foundation-funded project “Digital Cinema-Hub” and a lecturer at the Goethe University Frankfurt, teaching digital research methods and film history courses. Her research interests are closely aligned with “New Cinema History”, bringing together qualitative and quantitative methods to the study of film history.

  • Ainamar Clariana-Rodagut

    Ainamar Clariana-Rodagut holds a PhD in Humanities (UPF, 2017) and is in the final stages of completing her second thesis through cotutelle at the UOC (PhD program in Society, Technology, and Culture) and Philipps-Universität Marburg (PhD program in Media Studies). She served as a postdoctoral research fellow in the ERC project StG ‘Social Networks of the Past: Mapping Hispanic and Lusophone Modernity, 1898-1959’ from October 2021 to May 2024. Ainamar is a member of the GlobaLS research group (Global Literary Studies Research Lab), where she directs the Global Cinema research line. Her most recent project is a special issue on film clubs co-edited with Valeria Camporesi, slated for publication in Film History in 2024. She has participated in numerous international conferences and has published articles in esteemed journals such as Arbor, Aisthesis, Modernism/Modernity, and Transatlantic Studies.

  • Sarah-Mai Dang

    Sarah-Mai Dang is Principal Investigator of the BMBF research group “Aesthetics of Access. Visualizing Research Data on Women in Film History” (DAVIF) (2021-2025) at the Institute of Media Studies at Philipps-Universität Marburg. Drawing on her current research and teaching focus on digital film historiography, data visualization, feminist theory, open science, and media aesthetics, she also founded the international DFG research network “New Directions in Film Historiography. Digital Tools and Methods in Film and Media Studies” (2019-2023). She has published widely on feminist film theory, digital knowledge production and the impact of datafication in film and media studies (Orcid) and is currently co-editing a book (with Tim van der Heijden and Christian Gosvig Olesen) entitled Digital Film Historiography, Concepts, Tools, Practices which will be published with De Gruyter in 2024.

  • Josephine Diecke

    Josephine Diecke is an Assistant Professor of Film Studies at the University of Zurich. She has conducted extensive research using computer-assisted text and video annotation, particularly for the analysis of film color. She worked as a research associate in the SNSF-funded "Filmcolors" project and served as the academic coordinator of the Volkswagen Foundation-funded "Digital Cinema-Hub" project. Her research interests include film and media historiography and technology, moving image archiving and preservation practices, GDR film history, and digital methods. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Zurich, with a thesis on the color film processes Agfacolor and Orwocolor. Additionally, she is co-editor of the Open Media Studies Blog, convenor of the DHd working group “Film & Video”, and a member of the NECS Steering Committee. (Orcid)

  • Marian Dörk

    Marian Dörk is a research professor for Information Visualization & Management at the Design Department and the Institute for Urban Futures of the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam. His research and teaching focus on data visualization with a particular sensitivity towards social, cultural and technological transformations. Since 2015 he has been co-directing the UCLAB, a transdisciplinary research group that operates at the confluence of computing, design, and the humanities. His current research projects investigate how visual interfaces can bridge linear storytelling and open-ended exploration within cultural collections.

  • Maria Fosheim Lund

    Maria Fosheim Lund is a Ph.D. fellow in the Department of Media & Communication at the University of Oslo, where she is researching the transnational film career of actress-producer Aud Egede-Nissen, who worked in the German, Danish and Norwegian film industries, during the twenty-year period 1913-1934. Lund has worked as a project manager on the Women Film Pioneers Project at Columbia University, and is currently on leave from the National Library of Norway, where she has contributed to the Nordic Women in Film project and co-edited the books Small Country, Long Journeys: Norwegian Expedition Films (2017) and Silent Ibsen: Transnational Film Adaptation in the 1910s and 1920s (2022) with Eirik Frisvold Hanssen.

  • Till Grallert

    Till Grallert is a social and media historian of the Arabic-speaking Eastern Mediterranean from the 19th century to the present. Since summer 2023, he heads the “Methods Innovation Lab” for digital history at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin as part of NFDI4memory. He previously worked at the Orient-Institut Beirut, Lebanon, on a genealogy of urban food riots as a repertoire of contention as well as the digital editing of material in under-resourced languages and with the affordances of the Global South. Till holds a PhD in history with a thesis on the streets of late Ottoman Damascus from Freie Universität Berlin (2014) and an MA from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS, 2008), University of London. He is interested in Arab periodicals, global digital humanities, and the epistemic violence of the post-digital moment. He is co-chair of the ADHO and DHd Special Interest / Working Groups on multilingual digital humanities.

  • Malte Hagener

    Malte Hagener is Professor in Media and Film Studies at Marburg University where he is the executive director of the Marburg Center for Digital Culture and Infrastructure. Publications include Moving Forward, Looking Back. The European Avant-garde and the Invention of Film Culture, 1919-1939. (Amsterdam 2007), (with Thomas Elsaesser) Film Theory. An Introduction through the Senses (London, New York 2010, 2 nd revised edition 2015, many translations). (Co-)Editor of How Film Histories Were Made. Materials, Methods, Discourses. (Amsterdam 2024; with Yvonne Zimmermann), Handbuch Filmanalyse (Wiesbaden 2020; with Volker Pantenburg), Empathie im Film (Bielefeld 2017; with Ingrid Vendrell Ferran), Medienkultur und Bildung. Ästhetische Erziehung im Zeitalter digitaler Netzwerke (Frankfurt 2015; with Vinzenz Hediger), The Emergence of Film Culture. Knowledge Production, Institution Building and the Fate of the Avant-garde in Europe, 1919-1945. London 2014.

  • Anne Hart

    Anne Hart is a research assistant in the BMBF research group "Aesthetics of Access. Visualizing Research Data on Women in Film History" (DAVIF) at Philipps-Universität Marburg. Anne Hart holds a M.Sc. in Psychology (Philipps-Universität Marburg) als well as a B.A. in Theater, Film & Media Studies and Gender Studies (Goethe University Frankfurt). Anne Hart's research interests include queer_feminist theory, queer film historiography and data vizualisation.

  • Adelheid Heftberger

    Dr. Adelheid Heftberger is deputy head of the Film Department in the Bundesarchiv (Berlin). In the past, she worked as a researcher, curator, and archivist at Brandenburg Center für Media Studies in Potsdam and at the Austrian Filmmuseum in Vienna. She holds a PhD in Slavic Studies and obtained a Master degree in Comparative Literature from the universities of Innsbruck and Vienna. In 2016, she completed her M.A. of Library and Information Sciences at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. She is head of the FIAF Cataloguing & Documentation Commission and actively supports the Open Science movement.  

  • Kerstin Herlt

    Kerstin Herlt is a project manager in the digital department of the Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum (DFF) in Frankfurt am Main. Her work has focused on projects that digitize, preserve, curate and enrich Europe's film heritage. These include EFG (European Film Gateway), the WWI digitisation project EFG1914, FORWARD (a project focusing on orphan films), and VHH (Visual History of the Holocaust).  She currently serves as the coordinator of the European project "DE-BIAS," which employs a collaborative methodology to identify contentious language in cultural heritage collections. Herlt holds a Master’s degree in Romance Studies, Sociology, and European Media Studies.

  • Ingrid S. Holtar

    Ingrid S. Holtar received a Ph.D. in Film Studies from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in 2022 with the doctoral thesis “Feminism on Screen: Feminist filmmaking in Norway in the 1970s”. She is currently working as a research librarian in the Section for Visual Media and Conservation at the National Library of Norway. Her research is oriented towards women’s filmmaking and feminist film culture in Scandinavia, as well as to radical film cultures of the 1970s.

  • Bella Honess Roe

    I am currently senior lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Surrey, UK. My published work includes a monograph, Animated Documentary (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), which won the Society for Animation Studies McLaren/Lambart Award for Best Book. This is an area I still publish on and I have given several invited talks and keynotes on this topic. I have also published in other areas, including genre film and British cinema. My edited books include Aardman Animations: Beyond Stop Motion Film (Bloomsbury, 2020). Vocal Projections: Voices in Documentary (Bloomsbury, 2018 - co-edited with Maria Pramaggiore) and The Animation Studies Reader (Bloomsbury, 2019 - co-edited with Nichola Dobson, Amy Ratelle and Caroline Ruddell). I am currently researching the relationship between gender and labour in the British animation industry in the mid-twentieth century and exploring how digital humanities tools can address the archival absences and gaps from this period.

  • Keith M. Johnston

    Keith M. Johnston is Professor of Film & Television Studies at the University of East Anglia, UK. His research on women amateur filmmakers began during his time as Director of the East Anglian Film Archive (2014-16). He was UK lead on ‘Women in Focus: Developing a Feminist Approach to Film Archive Metadata & Cataloguing' (AHRC-IRC, 2021-24) and ‘Empowering Archivists: Applying New Tools & Approaches for Better Representation of Women in Audio-Visual Collections’ (AHRC, 2023-25). His published work on women amateur filmmakers and archives includes Women in Focus: A Toolkit for Archiving Women's Amateur Film (2023, with S. Arnold, P. Frith, C. Madden & Z. Viney-Burgess), Invisible Innovators (2020, with S. Clayton & M. Williams), and articles in Gender & History (2023) and Women’s History Review (2020, with S. Hill).

  • Pauline Junginger

    Pauline Junginger is a doctoral candidate and research assistant in the BMBF research group "Aesthetics of Access. Visualizing Research Data on Women in Film History" (DAVIF) at Philipps-Universität Marburg. In her research, she combines media studies, feminist theory, digital humanities and science and technology studies to explore the entanglements between database technologies and queer-feminist historiography. (Orcid)

  • Jacqueline Klusik-Eckert

    Jacqueline Klusik-Eckert studied art history and modern German literature in Erlangen and Bern. After completing her magister's degree, she wrote her doctoral thesis in art history on the topic "Transfer von Bildideen: Zur Kultur des Kopierens in der rudolfinischen Malerei und der Rezeption von Bartholomäus Spranger (1546-1611)". At the same time, she worked on the project at the Germanisches Nationalmuseum in Nuremberg and later as coordinator of Digital Humanities and IZdigital at FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg. She received the scholarship for excellent young researchers from the Free State of Bavaria and a publication award from the Arbeitskreis Niederländische Kunst- und Kulturgeschichte. Since September 2022, she has been project coordinator of "KI für alle" at HeiCAD at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf. In addition to art around 1600, her research areas are the history of methodology of digital art history, reception theory and AI literacy. As a freelancer, she hosts the podcast #arthistoCast – der Podcast zur Digitalen Kunstgeschichte and researches methods and further development of knowledge transfer and science communication. (Orcid)

  • Lucie Kolb

    Lucie Kolb is a scholar of critical publishing with a background in visual arts, art history, and cultural studies. Her work involves studying and producing artistic knowledge, e.g., practice-oriented writing and transversal publishing. She is interested in identifying, studying, and developing infrastructural practices with a particular focus on knowledge infrastructures such as libraries, collections and archives. Since 2023, Lucie has been the principal investigator of the SNSF-funded project Sharing Knowledge in the Arts, analyzing computational infrastructural practices and articulating open sharing practices. She is also the principal investigator of the swissuniversities funded project Critical FAIRness, an exploratory study investigating questions of “accessibility” and “re-use” regarding research data in the arts. Lucie is a Docent at IXDM, HGK Basel, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland FHNW and a founding member and co-editor of the open-access journal Brand-New-Life.
    luciekolb.com
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  • Kristina Köhler

    Kristina Köhler, PhD, works as Assistant-Professor for Art and Media History of Visual Media at the University of Cologne. Between 2008 and 2017, she was a research assistant, then Post-Doc at the Department of Film Studies at the University of Zurich, where she completed her PhD with the book Der tänzerische Film. Frühe Filmkultur und moderner Tanz (Marburg: Schüren, 2017). She is co-editor of the journal Montage AV and series editor of Film-Konzepte.

  • Skadi Loist

    Skadi Loist is Assistant Professor (Juniorprofessor) for Production Cultures in Audiovisual Media Industries at the Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF in Potsdam, Germany. Their research focuses on film festivals & circulation, queer film culture, and screen industries, diversity and sustainability. Skadi was Principal Investigator (PI) in projects that used digital methods to innovate the research agenda, such as “Film Circulation on the International Film Festival Network and the Impact on Global Film Culture” (BMBF 2017–2022) and “GEP Analysis: Assessing, Understanding, and Modeling the Impact of Gender Equity Policies (GEP) in the Film Industry” (DFG/ESRC/SSHRC 2021–2024). The current project within the joint project “QUADRIGA: Berlin-Brandenburg Data Competence Center” is dedicated to making digital tools and methods accessible to early career researchers in Film Studies. Publications: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8299-4103.

  • Carolann Madden

    Carolann Madden is Postdoctoral Researcher at Maynooth University, Ireland. Her research interests include women’s methods of cultural production, material and expressive culture, folklore, and the archiving and cataloguing of material culture. She has worked as a project archivist on the KUHT Public Television Collection and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston’s Archives of American Art Microfilm Project. She was assistant archivist for the William J. Hill Archive, where she also held a Research Fellowship for her research on born-digital archives.

  • Christian Gosvig Olesen

    Christian Gosvig Olesen is Assistant Professor of Digital Media and Cultural Heritage at the University of Amsterdam, where he teaches courses in film and media studies, and in moving image archiving in the MA programs Film Studies and Preservation and Presentation of the Moving Image. For the Dutch CLARIAH Media Suite and SSHOC-NL infrastructures, he currently coordinates and develops the Learn teaching and training initiatives. His forthcoming book Visualizing Film History: Film Archives and Digital Scholarship (Indiana University Press, 2025) offers a critical introduction to archive-based digital scholarship in film and media studies, and beyond.

  • Hanna-Leena Paloposki

    Hanna-Leena Paloposki, PhD (art history, University of Helsinki, 2012), is currently a researcher/data expert at the Research Department of the Finnish Literature Society in the digital humanities consortium ‘Constellations of Correspondence (CoCo project)’, funded by the Research Council of Finland (2021–25). Previously, she has worked at the Finnish National Gallery and has long experience of working with archive collections. Her research interests are the 19th century Finnish art field, artists' networks and epistolary culture, archive research, exhibition studies, and Finland and Italy in the 1920s–1930s: the cultural field and relations.

  • Julia Pfeiffer

    Julia Pfeiffer (M.A.) graduated in European Studies (2017, TU Chemnitz) and Folklore/Cultural History (2019, FSU Jena). She has worked in various research projects and museums as well as in university teaching. Since December 2022, she is employed in the project “Digital Exhibitions: from typology to reception studies”. In her doctoral studies, she researches interactivity and hybrid technologies in museums. Her interests lie in the fields of museum studies, cultural anthropology, game studies and the intersection of museums, cultural history and digitization.

  • Ilona Pikkanen

    Ilona Pikkanen works as a Senior Researcher at the Research Department of the Finnish Literature Society. She received her Ph.D. in 2013 in history at the University of Tampere, Finland, and holds the title of Docent (Associate Professor) at the University of Oulu, Finland (history). She is a specialist of 19th-century historiography, historical culture (Geschichtskultur) and theatre history. In the last years, she has worked actively in the field of Digital Humanities. Currently, Pikkanen is the PI of the digital humanities consortium Constellations of Correspondence (CoCo), funded by the Research Council of Finland (2021-25).

  • Nora Probst

    Nora Probst is currently substituting professor for Digital Humanities at the University of Paderborn. She received her PhD in 2022 from the University of Cologne with a dissertation on the history of theater studies in Cologne. Probst published in international journals such as TRI, is convenor of the Working Group Digital Humanities of the International Federation for Theatre Research (IFTR) and convenor of the Working Group Empowerment of the German Association for Digital Humanities (DHd). She is interested in aspects of data modelling, standardization and visualization of data from cultural-historical collections examining mechanisms of media representation, forms of digital (re)marginalization, and data-feminist practices of empowerment. She will return to the Cologne Theatre Collection (TWS) as head of the Department of Digital Humanities at the TWS in October 2024.

  • Kate Saccone

    Kate Saccone is a PhD researcher at the University of Amsterdam where her practice-led project engages with silent cinema, archival moving image exhibition practice and theory, and critical-feminist approaches to curatorial labor. Her writing has appeared in The Moving Image and Feminist Media Histories, and she contributed the DVD booklet essay for Early Women Filmmakers: An International Anthology (Flicker Alley, 2017). Kate has curated feminist silent film programs at the Netherlands Silent Film Festival, the New York Public Library, Anthology Film Archives, and the Museum of Modern Art, among other venues. She is also the project manager and an editor of Columbia University’s online Women Film Pioneers Project and currently serves on the Steering Committee for Women and Film History International.

  • Golnaz Sarkar Farshi

    Golnaz Sarkar Farshi is a scholar of media studies and a junior data scientist. She defended her dissertation on the New Waves of Cinema and Luhmann's social systems theory at Bauhaus University of Weimar in 2023 and completed a data science training in the same year. She is currently a researcher at the data competence center HERMES in Marburg. She is also developing her individual data science project, that was funded by NFDI4Culture’s Flex Funds.

  • Martin Siefkes

    Dr. habil. Martin Siefkes is a tenured research associate at the Chair of German Linguistics at Chemnitz University of Technology. After completing his doctorate in linguistics at the TU Berlin in 2010, he worked as a postdoc at the University IUAV in Venice and at the University of Bremen. In 2021, he completed his habilitation and obtained the venia legendi in Linguistics and Digital Humanities. He has been awarded scholarships from the German National Academic Foundation and the Humboldt Foundation. He is currently a member of the CRC “Hybrid Societies”, which studies the future role of embodied digital technologies, and participated in the creation of the successful exhibition “Gestures – gestern, heute, übermorgen”, which was shown in museums in Chemnitz, Berlin, Frankfurt/Main, and Koblenz from 2018 to 2023. He is PI of the project “Digital exhibitions: from typology to reception studies” (2022 – 2025), funded by the SMWK.

  • Derya Tok

    Derya Tok is Academic Coordinator of the VolkswagenStiftung funded project “Digital Cinema-Hub (DiCi-Hub): A Research Hub for Digital Film Studies”. She studied Arts, Media and Literary Studies at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen with a focus on film studies. Her research focuses on Digital Humanities, Eye-Tracking, Perception and Interpretation of Color in Cinema, Cultural Cognition, and Curation.

  • Cassie Ulph

    Cassie Ulph is Digital Development Manager for the Digital Creativity and Cultures Hub at the University of Leeds, where she advises on digital methodologies for research, and develops digital projects in the arts and humanities and cultural collections. A specialist in eighteenth-century women’s literary studies, her recent work has focussed on digital editing and computational investigation of women’s life-writing and letters, and the application of mixed-methods analyses to humanities data.

  • Dulce van Vliet - da Rocha Gonçalves

    Dulce van Vliet - da Rocha Gonçalves is a media historian with a background in visual arts, design, and cinema. She has recently completed her PhD at Utrecht University, within the research project Projecting Knowledge – The Magic Lantern as a Tool for Mediated Science Communication in the Netherlands, 1880-1940, funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO). Her research produced the first large-scale survey of the public lantern lecture as a cultural phenomenon of Dutch social life between the end of the nineteenth century and the Second World War. She is interested in media research at the intersection of cultural history, media archaeology and the history of knowledge.

  • Georg Vogt

    FH-Prof. Dr. Georg Vogt is head of the research group “Media Creation” at the University of Applied Sciences St. Poelten. He also works as author, curator and filmmaker and also teaches at the Vienna Universities Institute for Theatre-, Film- and Media Studies. His research interests include collaborative archives and the intersection of filmic narratives and visualization.
    https://icmt.fhstp.ac.at/team/georg-vogt

  • Eva Maria Weinmayr

    Eva Weinmayr’s artistic research practice is situated at the interface of art and radical education and institutional analysis. Her focus is on decolonial and feminist-intersectional discourses, pedagogies, and art practices. From 2019–22 she co-led the EU-funded collective research and study programme “Teaching to Transgress Toolbox” inspired by US activist, teacher and theorist bell hooks and published (Noun to Verb, HDK-Valand Gothenburg, 2020) concerned with the micro-politics of publishing from an intersectional perspective. As interims chair of faculty Art and Education at Munich Art Academy (2022-23) she co-initiated together with students kritilab, an open source platform for discrimination-critical teaching in the arts. Her current collaboration, Ecologies of Dissemination, with Femke Snelting, seeks a politics of sharing and reuse that addresses universalisms and power imbalances in Free Culture and Open Access. She currently researches with Lucie Kolb Sharing Knowledge in the Arts at the Academy of Art and Design, Basel and at HDK-Valand, Academy of Art and Design in Gothenburg.
    evaweinmayr.com
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  • Yvonne Zimmermann

    Yvonne Zimmermann is Professor of Media Studies at Philipps-Universität Marburg and PI in the VolkswagenStiftung funded project “Digital Cinema-Hub (DiCi-Hub): A Research Hub for Digital Film Studies”. Her latest (co-) edited publications include a special issue of Early Popular Visual Culture on “Asta Nielsen, the Film Star System and the Introduction of the Long Feature Film” (2021), How Film Histories Were Made: Materials, Methods, Discourses (2024) and Films That Work Harder: The Global Circulation of Industrial Film (2024).

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