We are delighted to let all the community know that the new issue of MAST (the Journal of Media Art Study and Theory) titled “Body Modification and Gender Anarchy in Media Theory and Practice”, and co-curated by Bernadette Wegenstein and Cla Calabresi, is finally out. The issue is open-access, available at this link: https://www.mast-journal.org/vol-7-no-1-2026 “A new challenge has...
We wholeheartedly thank everyone for participating in our sold-out event Global Ballroom. From the Baltimore Museum of Art to the George Peabody Library, between a performance, a screening, a workshop, and a unique VR experience, Baltimore welcomed our beloved guest performers with all the love and energy it could give! Thanks to the performers who came...
In The Last Days (Die letzen Tage), shortlisted for the Austrian Book Prize 2025, Martin Prinz reenacts the events of April 1945 in a valley of the Austrian Eastern Alps, where innocent people were arbitrarily tried and executed by Nazi summary courts, among them the granddaughters of Arthur Schnitzler’s muse Olga Waissnix. In these final...
The ballroom scene in Brazil and Baltimore—part of an international LGBTQ+ performance culture rooted in Black and Latinx communities—comes alive.
Demaria will present her current work: "The Double Wound of Violent Women: Media Representation and Post-Conflict Situations" with a Graduate Workshop (October 13th, 4-6 pm, Croft B32) and a Screening + Lecture (October 14th, 5:30pm, Gilman 479).
The Center for Advanced Media Studies (CAMS) facilitates the historical, cultural, and linguistic analysis of how ideas are communicated in the mass media through events, courses, lectures, workshops, screenings, and artist residencies. CAMS focuses on transnational cinema and visual media arts, offering a critical gaze to the newest areas of research in postcolonialist, feminist and...
Call for Papers for MAST Special Issue with deadline on May 31st. Guest Editors:Bernadette Wegenstein (Johns Hopkins University)Cla Calabresi (Johns Hopkins University) This special issue of MAST Journal explores practices of the body and embodiment in relation to media theory from both diachronical and synchronical perspectives. We welcome submissions concerning the body in media theories...
We are delighted to announce Patricia White’s Residency for CAMS, featuring two events between April 10th & 11th, 2025. Cinefeminism in the 1970’s: Transnational Films About Abortion (lecture & screening)in conversation with Professor Mary Fissell (History) April 10th5:30 PMGilman 208 The Americanization of Feminine Culture: Female Authorship, White Girlhood, and the U.S. Culture Industry from...
McKenzie Wark is an Australian-born writer and scholar, known for her writings on media theory, critical theory, new media, and the Situationist International. She is the author of “Reverse Cowgirl,” “Raving” and “Love and Money, Sex and Death.” She is Professor of Media and Culture at Eugene Lang College, The New School. After the talk...
Professor Soyoung Kim (Korea National University of Arts, Seoul) will be hosted at two events on the Homewood campus next week. The event is co-sponsored by The Alexander Grass Humanities Institute (AGHI). Mediating Eurasian Pasts February 10, 5-7 PM, Gilman 479 The Weight of the (Un)/written February 11, 1:30-3:30 PM, Gilman 35 Soyoung Kim is...
