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GEM LAB
Mar 6, 20234 min read
The Boob Tube: Tracking Pornhub's Emergence w/ Susanna Paasonen, Heather Berg, and Becky Holt
As part of the GEM Lab’s seminar on Video/Art/TV: Digital Aesthetics and Politics, we are holding a virtual workshop focused on online...


GEM LAB
Mar 2, 20232 min read
Self-Images and the “Ethic of Reviewing” w/ Kate Rennebohm
Part of the GEM Lab's 2022-2023 Works-in-Progress series Self-Images and the “Ethic of Reviewing” in Global Film, Art, Activism, and...


GEM LAB
Mar 2, 20235 min read
Latin American Digital Politics and Culture Workshop
with Dr. Colette Perold, Dr. Juan Llamas-Rodríguez, and Joaquín Serpe //March 17, 2023 //2:00-5:00 PM //GEM Lab //1250 Guy, FB 630.15...

GEM LAB
Feb 14, 20232 min read
Preliminary Materials on Science and Educational Films in Socialist China w/ Xin Zhou
Part of the GEM Lab's 2022-203 Works-in-Progress series //Feb. 23, 2023 //5:00-7:00 PM //GEM Lab //1250 Guy, FB 630.15 This talk will...


GEM LAB
Feb 3, 20232 min read
Video/Art and Seriality: reading group and screening
As part of the GEM Lab’s seminar on Video/Art/TV: Digital Aesthetics and Politics, we are holding a reading group and screening focused...


GEM LAB
Jan 30, 20231 min read
Sanaz Sohrabi's new film, Scenes of Extraction, premiering at Berlinale's Film Expanded programme
Sanaz Sohrabi’s new documentary, Scenes of Extraction, will have its World premiere at Berlinale’s Forum Expanded programme, one of 33...

GEM LAB
Jan 25, 20231 min read
Becky Holt publishes new piece in Flow
GEM Lab coordinator Becky Holt has recently published an essay in the online journal Flow, “A Porn Studies Scholar’s Plea to...


GEM LAB
Jan 10, 20232 min read
Sensing the Unseen w/ Jakob Kudsk Steensen
Part of the GEM Lab Seminar in Media and Political Theory, Video/Art/TV: Digital Aesthetics and Politics //Jan. 26, 2023 //5:00-7:00 PM...


GEM LAB
Dec 20, 20222 min read
Futurist Forensics w/ Patrick Brian Smith (University of Warwick)
//Jan. 17, 2023 //5:30-7:30 PM //GEM Lab //1250 Guy St. FB 630.15 Of late, we have witnessed a "counter-forensic turn," operating at the...

GEM LAB
Nov 18, 20221 min read
Technopharmacology (2022) is out now through open-access Meson Press
Technopharmacology (2022), the new edited collection by Joshua Neves, Aleena Chia, Susanna Paasonen, and Ravi Sundaram, is out now...


GEM LAB
Nov 14, 20223 min read
Legacy Russell’s Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto: reading group and screening
As part of the GEM Lab’s seminar on Video/Art/TV: Digital Aesthetics and Politics, we are holding a reading group and screening focused...

GEM LAB
Nov 3, 20223 min read
Works-in-Progress: Encased Futures//Sensations and Seamlessness
w/ Kerim Dogruel & Laura Laabs (Goethe University) //Nov. 16, 2022 //5:00-7:00 PM //GEM LAB //1250 Guy, FB 630.15 The 2022-23...


GEM LAB
Nov 2, 20222 min read
Neither Dog nor Master: Stray Thoughts for Cinema Studies
w/ James Leo Cahill (University of Toronto) //Nov. 8th, 2022 //5:30-7:30 PM //GEM Lab //1250 Guy, FB 630.15 This talk draws upon recent...

GEM LAB
Oct 5, 20221 min read
The Smoosh, or the Auto-Affective Genres of Always-On Computing
w/ James J. Hodge (Northwestern University) //Nov. 17th, 2022 //5:00-7:00 PM //GEM Lab //1250 Guy, FB 630.15 About the event: How to...

GEM LAB
Sep 29, 20221 min read
Lynch's Daily Digits
With Jeff Scheible (Kings College London) //October 26th, 2022 //5:00-7:00 PM //GEM Lab //1250 Guy, FB 630.15 About the event: Every day,...

GEM LAB
Sep 22, 20222 min read
Data, Heresy, and Censorship
Artist Talk with Elisa Giardina Papa (UC Berkeley/Tufts University) //November 4th, 2022 //4:00-5:30 PM EST //Online Event //Register on...

GEM LAB
Sep 7, 20221 min read
My Trans Barbie Dream House: Media Fantasies of Bad Gender Play
With Dr. Cáel M. Keegan //October 13th, 2022 //5:30-7:30 PM //1515 St-Catherine St. W. //EV 11.705 (Milieux seminar room) About the...

GEM LAB
Sep 7, 20222 min read
Materialising the invasion: race, borders, and the semiotic reproduction of racial capitalism
With Dr. Gaia Giuliani (University of Coimbra, Portugal) //October 5th, 2022 //5:30 PM EST //GEM Lab //1250 Guy, FB 630.15 About the...

GEM LAB
Mar 28, 20223 min read
The USIA’s “Tales of Hoja Nasreddin” Series with Hadi Gharabaghi
The USIA’s “Tales of Hoja Nasreddin” Series presents: Imperial Governing through Vernacular Modernism in the Middle East as an Early Cold...


GEM LAB
Jan 28, 20221 min read
Darren Byler: Capitalist Frontier-Making in Northwest China
Capitalist Frontier-Making in Northwest China: Technologies of Muslim Enclosure, Dispossession and Subtraction A Public Lecture with...
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