Highlighted Events from AY21 and AY20
"Bias Out of the Box - Unpacking Algorithms of Power"(documentary screening + discussion) - what does it mean when artificial intelligence (AI) increasingly governs our liberties? And what are the consequences for the people AI is biasedagainst? The event was an opportunity to engage with the urgent themes covered in the award winning documentary Coded Bias (February 2021)
"Full Zoom: Doc Productions 2020 Screening" - four short documentaries highlight the creative work made by University of Chicago students. Produced during Prof. Judy Hoffman’s Documentary Production classes in AY2020, these films provide an enlightening and entertaining panorama of life in Chicago (October 2020)
Mihaela Mihailova, Michigan State University "Computer Generated Ideology: The Neoliberal Multi-Verse of Contemporary US Studio Animation" Hannah Frank Memorial Lecture (February 2020)
Recent FSC Graduate Student Curatorials -
Annual CMS Graduate Student Conference
- 2021 "Site/Seeing" organized by Jenisha Borah, Maggie Sivit, Ashley Truehart, and Avery Laflamme. Keynote address - Alison Griffiths (CUNY, Baruch College)
- 2019 "Documenting the Archive", organized by Sean Batton, Ritika Kaushik, and Cinta Peleja. Keynote address - Paula Amad (University of Iowa)
- 2018 "Sensing Media", organized by Dave Burnham, Gary Kafer, and Amy Skjerseth. Keynote address - Mark Hansen (Duke University)
- 2017 "Trauma and Melodrama", organized by AP Pettinelli, Tyler Schroeder, and Tien-Tien Jong Zhang. Keynote address - Elisabeth Anker (George Washington University)
- 2016 "Still Walking, Still Sleeping, Still Life: Slow Aesthetics and the Moving Image", organized by Zain Jamshaid, Katerina Korola, and Pao-chen Tang. Keynote address - Jean Ma (Stanford University)
- 2015 "Performing Bodies: Gesture, Affect, and Embodiment on Screen", organized by Matt Hubbell, Noa Merkin, and Nicole Morse. Keynote address - Elena Gorfinkel (King's College London)