Donnerstag, 15.02.2024, 18:30 Uhr //

Lecture & Performance in Kollaboration mit MANIFEST:IO.

mit Gabriel Menotti and Harshini J. Karunaratne. moderiert vo Florian Leitner.

Gabriel Menotti is Associate Professor at the Film and Media Department of Queen’s University. He holds a PhD in Media and Communication from Goldsmiths, University of London, and another in Communication and Semiotics from the Catholic University of São Paulo. He also works as an independent curator and artist-researcher in the broad field of moving images. His work on media technology has been published and presented worldwide. He is the author of “Movie Circuits: Curatorial Approaches to Cinema Technology” (AUP, 2019), and co-editor of “Practices of Projection: Histories and Technologies” (OUP, 2020), among other anthologies. He is also one of the coordinators of the Besides the Screen research network and festival, and convenes Museums Without Walls, a curatorial survey on media infrastructures and cultural institutions.

Harshini J. Karunaratne is a Sri Lankan-Peruvian digital artist working at the intersections of film, theatre and technology. They develop projects that explore themes of eco-grief, gender, the body and afterlife. Harshini's explorations are centered in the visual, combining a background in photography with VJing and projection design. They have had their work shown in the UAE, Italy, Germany, Japan, Peru, Greece, at the FILE Festival in São Paulo, Burning Man in Black Rock City, and at Art Dubai. Harshini is a lecturer at the University in Europe for Applied Sciences and at SRH Berlin University of Applied Sciences, specializing in media theory and performance studies. They are also the organizer and lead curator for MANIFEST:IO, the symposium for new media and electronic art.