Jennifer O’Meara

An excellent piece. Thanks to you all for writing it.

A great piece from TCD colleagues advocating resistance to AI. The beauty of learning comes in the process of thinking, the unexpected connections, time spent reading closely; all things that GenAI prevents.

How did we get from "Do not use Wikipedia as a source" to "ask hallucinating chatbot everything"?

‘Undeveloped property’: Mad Men, crisis, and real estate Martha Shearer ABSTRACT Mad Men is perhaps the preeminent example of nostalgia television of the last 20 years. And yet its version of the Sixties is relatively uninterested in what Fredric Jameson has characterised as that decade’s ‘shared feeling that everything is possible’. Instead, its primary concern is the feeling of being unmoored in history, encapsulated in the falling man of its title sequence, but also in its formal shifts between delay, deferral and slowness and the shock of historical and narrative events. As a number of scholars have observed, that slowness calls attention instead to the image and to space, and especially to production design. In this essay, I argue that the show increasingly calls attention to that space as real estate, with seasons punctuated with domestic and commercial real estate sales and acquisitions, real estate transactions as major plot points, and the introduction of real estate agent and property developer characters in its final season. I suggest that real estate, in both aesthetic and narrative terms, is critical to the show’s ambivalence about the future, caught between optimism regarding the expansion of global capitalism and knowledge of crises that follow, both in the 1970s and in 2008. [now attentive and loving readers of my posts will know that there is a typo in there that they've told me is getting fixed, and if you, dear reader, notice it can I please assure you that I am not illiterate, cheers]

here is my new article on mad men, real estate, the past, the future (open access!): www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
this is part of an upcoming special issue of rethinking history on "memories of the future" edited by louis bayman and tim vermeulen

Day 4: "The Masculine Surreal: Damon Packard's AI-Aided Authorship" by Jaka Lombar, Trinity College Dublin

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Day 3: “Jim Jarmusch as (Instagram) Collage Artist” by Jennifer O’Meara, Trinity College Dublin

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The US Government Is Not a Startup Elon Musk is moving fast and breaking things that can’t afford to be broken.

“The thing about most software startups, though, is that they fail. They take big risks and they don’t pay off and they leave the carcass of that failure behind and start cranking out a new pitch deck.”

Come join us for a conversation with Bluesky’s head of trust and safety on the future of social media, algorithms, and speech - Dublin Inquirer Why’s this new social media network different? What does it mean to be able to pick your own algorithm, instead of having Musk or Zuckerberg pick for you?

Come join us for a conversation with Bluesky’s head of trust and safety on the future of social media, algorithms, and speech. dublininquirer.com/2...

today, for In Media Res, I wrote a short piece on my favorite artifact of internet culture, GONCHAROV, for a theme week on "Auteurs in the Age of Social Media" organized by @caitmurphy.bsky.social. So grateful to Cáit for putting this together! mediacommons.org/imr/content/...

Auteurs in the Age of Social Media | In Media Res

It was great to co-ordinate a theme week for In Media Res. Curators responded to the call with great pieces on auteurs and auteurism in the age of social media.

The first post by @oliviastowell.bsky.social on the Goncharov meme is up today! Please share!

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list of banned keywords

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

Criterion Channel's listing of David Lynch theatrical releases and early avant-garde shorts.

Criterion's image for the David Lynch documentary Lynch/Oz.

Criterion's image for the David Lynch documentary The Art Life.

Criterion's image for David Lynch's animated web series DumbLand.

Criterion Channel has a whole bunch of David Lynch content at the moment, but you wouldn't know it if you clicked the link at the top of their page--which only shows you their current selection of Lynch's theatrical releases and early shorts.
There's a lot more that the website buries. 1/x

The Sonic Legacy of David Lynch: The Sound of Twin Peaks & beyond | A Sound Effect Go behind the sound for some of creative visionary David Lynch's fantastic film and series projects:

The Sonic Legacy of David Lynch: The Sound of Twin Peaks & beyond: https://www.asoundeffect.com/david-lynch-sound/ #sounddesign #soundeffects #filmsound #filmmaking #audiopost #postproduction #davidlynch #twinpeaks

Vacancy — Postdoc in Digital Media: Understanding Media Dynamics of Distrust Join a cutting-edge NWO-funded project at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis and Media Studies. This postdoctoral position explores the dynamics of distrust in digital societies, analyzing vas...

Post-doc in my department - looking for someone with digital methods and media theory background to work on conspiracy theory/post-truth cultures werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

Assistant Professor in Film (with a Specialism in Cinema and Ireland and/or Film Cultures Outside US/Western European Contexts) at Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin Recruiting now: Assistant Professor in Film (with a Specialism in Cinema and Ireland and/or Film Cultures Outside US/Western European Contexts) on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academ...

🔊 New Tenure Track Assistant Professor in Film Studies post at Trinity College Dublin. With a specialism in Irish cinema and/or an aspect of non-Western cinema.
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🥁 Announcing the Public Domain Image Archive! 🥁

We are v excited to share our new sister-project, the Public Domain Image Archive (PDIA), a curated collection of 10k+ out-of-copyright historical images, all free to explore and reuse: pdimagearchive.org @pdimagearchive

Thousands of documentaries are fueling AI models built by Apple, Meta, and Nvidia Subtitles for documentaries by Alex Gibney, Ava DuVernay and Ken Burns, and episodes of PBS’ Frontline and BBC’s Panorama, were used to train LLMs.

“The OpenSubtitles data set… includes the work of many broadcast journalists, investigative reporters and documentarians... The documentaries in OpenSubtitles include films by Ken Burns, Ava DuVernay, Michael Moore, Asif Kapadia, Werner Herzog, Jehane Noujaim, and Errol Morris.”

If you see a website for a lab, research group, or scholarly organisation languishing, it's because the administrator needs to go through three levels of IT hell to access the back-end.

Soon in OpenAccess and paperback, my new book on urban screens - the trilogy on screen cultures with Amsterdam University Press will be complete! I am very grateful for the generous endorsements by Scott McQuire, Kristy Kang, Stephanie DeBoer and Dave Colangelo.

Montage of materials moving into the public domain in 2025. Duke Law Center for the Study of the Public Domain.

📢 Filmmakers: Our Public Domain Remix Contest is open!
🎥 Create a short film using public domain material from 1929.

🔜 Deadline: Jan 17
🥇 $1,500
👉 https://blog.archive.org/2024/12/16/2025-public-domain-day-remix-contest-the-internet-archive-is-looking-for-creative-short-films-made-by-you/

Between performative resistance and aestheticized conflicts: In this new #research article, Qianqian Li @utaustintx.bsky.social examines Greta Gerwig's film as an embodiment of the ambivalence of Western popular #feminism.

Read here: doi.org/10.1177/1367... #Barbie

Job advert! Lecturer in Digital Futures, with specialisms in art and humanities. Come and join us at Bristol Digital Futures Institute. 80% of your time for first five years will be research and further developing BDFI work across the university and with partners www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

Visited Brian Maguire's La Grande Illusion at the Hugh Lane Gallery today and hard not to extend its commentary on the visual language of war to the atrocities in Gaza, and beyond. Also, expert level curation with this work mirrored in the flawed flooring.

Assistant Professor of Aesthetics and Culture - Vacancy at Aarhus University Vacancy at School of Communication and Culture - Art History, Aesthetics & Culture , Museology, Dept. of, Aarhus University

Come work at Aarhus University

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An exciting film/media history postdoc research fellow role at University of St Andrews on the “Relocating Filmstrips, Remapping Europe” project.
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Doing Digital Film History How has the digital turn shaped the practices of film historical research and teaching? While computational approaches have been used by film historians since the 1960s and 1970s, the arrival and use ...

📢 Delighted to share that our edited book volume “Doing Digital Film History. Concepts, Tools, Practices” is now published - open access! 🎉 Thanks to all the contributors, collaborators, and my co-editors! ✨
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#digitalfilmhistory #digitalmediastudies #dataviz #DH

A blue book cover for The Screens of Virtual Production.

Table of Contents screenshot detailed 18 chapters, full details via link in post.

Great to see the TOC for The Screens of Virtual Production (eds Sian Mitchell, Colin Perry, Sean Redmond & Lienors Torre).

18(!) chapters, covering VP from a whole host of angles, mine provides a genealogy for it by way of rear projection & other compositing tech. www.routledge.com/The-Screens-...

Amnesty International Investigation Concludes Israel Is Committing Genocide “We will look back and say, ‘Why did we not do more earlier?” Amnesty's director tells Zeteo.

Everyone should be sharing this story about the Amnesty International report because yes many of us have long acknowledged that it’s a genocide but there are still people who need the validation of a report from an org like Amnesty to believe it’s true zeteo.com/p/amnesty-co...

Well that fits, as now pumpkin just has to mean pumpkin spice!

Spotify Wrapped is in its ChatGPT word salad phase.