It’s happening! + @jirianger.bsky.social

CFP for FMH: Feminist Archaeologies of Desktop media is here 🔥

Looking for written articles as well as video essays

Send us your abstracts by October 28, 2025!

🫶 Don’t miss this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity 🫡

Congratulations! The BAFTSS award for videographic criticism was given to @veronikahanakova.bsky.social, @m-tremcinsky.bsky.social and @jirianger.bsky.social for their piece "Cycles of Labour: In the Metaverse, We Will Be Housewives", first published in the Autumn 2023_#Cycles issue of NECSUS.

"Every tool that helps us access our digital history is also a tool for imagining different digital futures."

There's a new GifCities search engine from @archive.org!

New on ESC, I retrace the story of GeoCities, the 1999 Burn All GIFs Day protest plus so many GIFs!!
www.esckey.co/gifcities-in...

With @jirianger.bsky.social ~ The program of MFF 2025 is out! This is the third year that audiovisual essays will be screened on the big screen at the Marienbad Film Festival (from June 12–15).

The first block explores media gestures.

✨NEW PUBLICATION ALERT✨

The newest issue of MOVIE has just been published, and I’m excited to share that it features our audiovisual essay, A Tale of Two Desktops: The First Czech Films in Parallel Worlds, co-authored with @jirianger.bsky.social and Jiří Žák.

warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/sca...

🩷 Cycles of Labour 🩷

I am super excited by this news. Our video essay "Cycles of Labour" has won the @baftss.bsky.social award for videographic criticism! My biggest thanks go to my colleagues @veronikahanakova.bsky.social & @jirianger.bsky.social thank you both very much for allowing me to be a part of this project!

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2/3 Veronika Hanáková, Martin Tremčinský and Jiří Anger won the award for their truly original, insightful and amazingly well made work Cycles of Labour: In the Metaverse, We Will Be Housewives (published in NECSUS in December 2023: necsus-ejms.org/cycles-of-la...).

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yoooooo #scms #scms25, get ready

Our works have been nominated for the BAFTSS Awards!

👉 Towards a Film Theory from Below: Best Monograph
👉 Cycles of Labour: Best Videographic Criticism
@veronikahanakova.bsky.social

Congratulations to all the nominees, especially
@filmstudiesff.bsky.social

👉 www.baftss.org/awards-2025....

Yesterday evening, @jirianger.bsky.social presented his videographic criticism work (6 audiovisual essays) at ASCA, @uvahumanities.bsky.social, in the Belle van Zuylen room (the woman so prominently pictured).

One of the works @jirianger.bsky.social presented last evening is this wonderful audiovisual essay on Natalia Oreiro which he made together with @veronikahanakova.bsky.social.

I’m super excited to share that this Friday, I’ll be presenting my book at the University of Amsterdam!

Date: November 29, 2024
Time: 14:30-17:00 hrs (CET)
Location: University of Amsterdam, Turfdraagsterpad 9 (BG1), room 0.16 (eLab)
Online: Teams (Meeting ID: 326 613 010 851, Passcode: pN7X4R)

"The History of the Commodore 64 in Twelve Objects".
Object #4: Impossible Mission and Tapes

"Another Visitor. Stay a while, stay forever!"

What are your memories of C64 games and tapes?

Full story at shorturl.at/6XycJ

Coming November 29th: Object #5 – Zzap!64 and other magazines.
#c64

🖥 ILUMINACE 2/2024 Configuring Computer Labor in Film and Audiovisual Media presents INTERFACES:

@sfanders.bsky.social - Envisioning the Interface
Here: criticalcommons.org/view?m=it2cP...

@drdanobrien.bsky.social - The Allure and Threat of the Cine-Computer
Here: youtu.be/LdHXj-09lVw

Congratulations to @veronikahanakova.bsky.social
on the new issue of Iluminace on the topic of Configuring Computer Labor in Film and Audiovisual Media! My contribution Envisioning the Interface is here:
criticalcommons.org/view?m=it2cP...
Full Iluminace issue is here: iluminace.cz/contents/ilu...

Thank you 💿 and your av essay is great contribution to the whole issue 💙

💙 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

Me toooo 🫶