Tag: research
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Back on the (block)chain gang
My current writing project is around blockchain and the entertainment industries, and mostly involves sorting hype from legitimate ideas. This is one of the first not-super-conceptual academic pieces I’ve written, so it’s interesting to sort through a whole bunch of reportage, blogs, videos, and just get a sense of what the current atmosphere around something […]
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Material Media-Making is out (digitally) now
The digital (PDF/EPUB) version of my new book Material Media-Making in the Digital Age is available now! Head to the Intellect site to purchase (or tell your institution’s library to do so!). Exciting! From the blurb: “How might one craft a personal media-making practice that is thoughtful and considerate of the tools and materials at […]
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Come sail away
It’s been over a year since I worked on the weekend. Since some pretty severe burnout I’ve had to make sure that weekends and most weeknights are kept free, though sometimes the latter is unavoidable. But this weekend, between a full and crazy week last week, and an equally insane three days from tomorrow (Monday), […]
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Inhuman Screens
I am thrilled to announce that I’ve been invited to present at the inaugural Inhuman Screens conference, convened in conjunction with Sydney Underground Film Festival. I’ll be presenting my research on drones and cinematography. This work considers the embodied experience of flying a drone, and some of the philosophical/existential questions that experience raises, as well as […]
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Compass points
I’ve done some nature this week. I’d forgotten how much I enjoyed it. Nature the first was a walk in an inner-city park on Tuesday. Nowhere to be, nothing really in mind to see: just walking, looking, feeling. Nature the second was some experimental filming done as part of a research day in north-east Melbourne. […]
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Spectres of the frame; shifting perceptions
Film theory is at a crossroads. The more I think about it, it’s more like the crazy Los Angeles freeway over/underpasses. Is the right way intertextual/intermedial/transmedial/psychological? Is there a right way at all? I’ve been running a studio this semester which looks at the role of the frame in the age of digital cinema. It’s […]
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Yes we POPCAANZ
I’m sitting in an apartment, outside which the manic Wellington weather swirls and swishes. After a glorious week, with crisp, sunny days (see above), the clouds have rolled in, and it’s bucketing down. However, today’s disposition is not dampening mine, with the memories of a second, successful POPCAANZ fresh in my mind. My paper on […]
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My theory of cinema
The more I think about it, though, the more intrigued I’m getting about just what my conception of cinema is.
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Death to the selfie stick
Today I had the pleasure of attending the RMIT nonfictionLab‘s symposium on interactive documentary. A great many interesting talks were given, and I’m hoping to collate some of my notes into coherent ramblings here and elsewhere over the coming days. I was reading various tweets today, watching some of the presentations at the conference, and ruminating more generally […]
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