This book highlights the quantitative methods of data mining and information visualization and explores their use in relation to the films and writings of the Russian director, Dziga Vertov. The theoretical basis of the work harkens back to the time when a group of Russian artists and scholars, known as the “formalists,” developed new concepts of…[Read more]

Podcasting inherits both the potentials for domination and for liberation in these previous forms of media, and it also contains new potentials by virtue of being a new medium. Podcasting is like radio, for example, but podcasts are importantly not radio programs. To uncover what exactly is (or could be) radical and pedagogical about podcasting, a…[Read more]

It is of interest to discuss options, necessary actions and, most importantly, the most useful infrastructure for film archives (e.g. an ontology for audiovisual media which is adapted to the requirements of film heritage institutions), it seems advisable to discuss options in a workshop dedicated to this topic. The workshop brought together…[Read more]