IFM 2024 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
The organizing committee can be reached by email: ifmjournal@torontomu.ca
Hudson MOURA Chair
(Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada)
Hudson Moura is a lecturer on film, new media, and global justice at the Department of Politics and Public Administration and on digital media theory and research methodology at the Master of Digital Media at The Creative School; and an associate faculty at the Immigration and Settlement Studies Program at Yeates School of Graduate Studies at Toronto Metropolitan University. His scholarly work has been presented at numerous international conferences and published in English, French, Spanish and Portuguese. Currently, he is writing a book on refugees in films. As a documentarian, his films portray artists, writers, and culture. He served as a film programmer for several film festivals in Toronto. He has also facilitated numerous hands-on workshops on documentary, mobile filming, and video editing in universities and film festivals. He is a member of the Betinho Project Group, which aims to fight against hunger and promote human rights and participatory democratic processes. He chairs the Interactive Film and Media Network Research Group, focusing on the politics of race, migration, gender, and minorities (Indigenous, Black, anti-racist trans- feminist and queer) related to technology, media, and digital practices. In addition, he is also a co-founder of the Cabra Audiovisual Collective, which purpose is defending democratic values, free speech, and citizenship through audiovisual production.
Stefano ODORICO, Co-Chair
(Technological University of the Shannon, Ireland and Leeds Trinity University, England)
Dr. Stefano Odorico is a Reader in Contemporary Screen Media at Leeds Trinity University where he is the director of IRIS (International Research Centre for Interactive Storytelling). He has published numerous works on film and media theory and practice, documentary studies, and interactive documentaries. He is the vice-chair of the MeCCSA (Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Association) practice network and he is a co-founder and member of the editorial team of Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media. He is currently collaborating with Dr. Judith Aston on a project focusing on polyphonic documentary theory and practice.
(The University of Texas at Dallas, USA)
Heidi Rae Cooley is an associate professor and serves as co-director of the Public Interactives Research Lab at The School of Arts, Technology, and Emerging Communication at The University of Texas at Dallas. Cooley investigates what it means to live in an age when mobile devices have become our partners, when our accessories keep track of our steps toward optimal health, when the landscapes around us are ever “smarter” and more responsive to our movements. Instead of interpreting mobile media as surveillance apparatuses, freedom machines, or both, she considers the routine practices—that is, habits—they engender and revise. To explore habit-change in the mobile connected present, she has collaborated with interdisciplinary teams to design geo-locative software applications that present unacknowledged histories of place (see: http://calliope.cse.sc.
(New York University Abu Dhabi, UEA)
Dale Hudson is an associate professor at NYU Abu Dhabi in the Film and New Media Program and the MFA in Art and Media. His latest book is Reorienting the Middle East: Film and Digital Media Where the Persian Gulf Arabian Sea and Indian Ocean Meet (Indiana UP, 2024) co-edited with Alia Yunis. He has curated for the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival (FLEFF) since 2007 and coordinated Films from the Gulf for the Association of Gulf and Arabian Peninsula Studies Association (AGAPS) at the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) Film Festival since 2016.
(University of York, England)
Jenna Ng is Professor in Digital Media and Culture at the University of York, UK. Her research focuses on digital media and culture, on which she has published extensively. Her books include Understanding Machinima: Essays on Films in Virtual Worlds (Bloomsbury, 2013) and The Post-Screen Through Virtual Reality, Holograms and Light Projections: Where Screen Boundaries Lie (Amsterdam University Press, 2021) which was awarded an Honourable Mention by the British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies (BAFTSS). Working across a range of media, Jenna also produces creative projects with practice-based methodologies. Her work has won numerous prizes, including the John Culkin Award for Outstanding Praxis, the MeCCSA Practice Based Research of the Year, and the Learning on Screen Special Jury Prize. She is currently writing a book about the existential tensions of being human in the age of AI.
(NOVA FCSH, Portugal)
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MARTA FIOLIĆ is a visual artist and researcher, PhD student in Cinema at NOVA FCSH. At the same faculty, she is part of the CINELAB of the Nova Institute of Philosophy and the working group on Cinema & Politics. In 2021 she received a scholarship from FCT to develop her PhD thesis "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised – It Will Be Digitized: Towards the Analysis of Activism Practices in Contemporary Online Documentary." As an integral part of the practice-based research, she produced a collaborative interactive documentary with the SOMOS MULHERES association, an NGO organised and run by women who have been experiencing homelessness in Lisbon. Having graduated in History and in Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Croatia she went on to earn Master’s degrees in Modern and Contemporary History and in Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology in 2014. At the same university, she explores photography and video through the classes of Cinematography and Photography at the Academy of Dramatic Art, and photojournalism at the Faculty of Political Science. Between 2015 and 2019 she was a multimedia manager at CHAM - NOVA FCSH, producing audiovisual works that accompanied the scientific investigation. Her interests lie between arts and activism, the intersection of civic culture, documentary and interactivity. In 2022, she co-founded εntropiα, an art collective dedicated to the exploration and fusion of sound, music, and image, with a strong sense of social and community engagement.
(Kingston University, England)
Il Sun Moon is a PhD student in film and photography at Kingston University and an artist in the experimental practice. Throughout her academic experience in communication design in China, Japan, and the UK, she gradually became attracted to the poetic practice of the moving image and atmospheric expansion in its spatiality. Her work was presented at Stanley Picker Gallery, and her practice-based research was presented at various conferences and published in the Body, Space & Technology journal. Moon's practice challenges the conventional structure in cinematic spatial qualities and aims to deliver the importance of producing a synthesising body of work between research, moving image practice, and personal experience.