Guest Lecture: Dr. Mark Westmoreland
This talk discusses an experimental pedagogical video project, made in the wake of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution, that draws upon the emerging mobile aesthetics of cellphone filmmaking and public encounters with revolutionary spontaneity.
Dr. Carolyn Birdsall
Director, ASCA Cities Project / Department of Media Studies
University of Amsterdam
Leftover Space, Invisibility, and Everyday Life: Rooftops in Iran
Book Chapter
Pedram Dibazar
2016
Guest Lecture: Dr. Donatella Della Ratta
The Question of the Image in the Networked Age: handwritten notes, Flipcam diaries, and YouTube remixes from the battlefield in Syria.
International Conference: Visualizing the Street
For the international conference Visualizing the Street, the ASCA Cities Project invites papers that explore the impact of contemporary practices of image-making on the visual cultures of the street.
Resounding City Films: Vertov, Ruttmann and Early Experiments with Documentary Sound Aesthetics
Book Chapter
Carolyn Birdsall
2015
Inert Cities: Globalization, Mobility and Suspension in Visual Culture
Edited Book
Christoph Lindner and Stephanie Hemelryk Donald
2014
Absence in the Mirror: Beirut’s Urban Identity in the aftermath of Civil War
Journal Article
Judith Naeff
2014
Sound Aesthetics and the Global Imagination in German Media Culture around 1930
Book Chapter
Carolyn Birdsall
2014
Sonic Artefacts: Reality Codes of Urbanity in Early German Radio Documentary
Book Chapter
Carolyn Birdsall
2013
Slow Art in the Creative City: Amsterdam, Street Photography, and Urban Renewal
Journal Article
Christoph Lindner and Miriam Meissner
2015
Inaudible Frequencies: Sounding Out the Contemporary Branded City
Book Chapter
Carolyn Birdsall
2013
Detours, Delays, Derailments: La Petite Jerusalem and Slow Training in Culture
Book Chapter
Sudeep Dasgupta
2013
Paris-Amsterdam Underground: Essays on Cultural Resistance, Subversion, and Diversion
Edited Book
Christoph Lindner and Andrew Hussey
2013
After-Images of the Highrise City: Visualizing Urban Change in Modern New York
Journal Article
Christoph Lindner
2013
Questioning Urban Modernity
Journal Article
Pedram Dibazar, Christoph Lindner, Miriam Meissner and Judith Naeff
2013
Die Orchestrierung urbaner Akustik: dokumentarische Form, akustische Medien und die moderne Stadt
Book Chapter
Carolyn Birdsall
2013
Amsterdam–New York: Transnational Photographic Exchange in the Era of Globalization
Journal Article
Christoph Lindner
2012
Designing Public Space for Mobility: Contestation, Negotiation and Experiment at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol
Journal Article
Anna Nikolaeva
2012
Portraying the Global Financial Crisis: Myth, Aesthetics, and the City
Journal Article
Miriam Meissner
2012
The Postmetropolis and Mental Life: Wong Kar Wai’s Cinematic Hong Kong
Book Chapter
Christoph Lindner
2011
Art in the Divided City: Participatory art projects in Rio de Janeiro Favelas
PhD project, Simone Kalkman (2014-2018)
Salvaging the City: A Salvagepunk Approach to the Problems of the Global City
PhD project, Tijmen Klous (2013-17)
Non-Visibility and the Politics of Presence: A Spatial Analysis of Contemporary Iran
PhD project, Pedram Dibazar (2012-16)
Regenerative Beirut: Urban Imaginaries of Waste, Surfaces and Dead Bodies
PhD project, Judith Naeff (2011-15)
The Global Financial Crisis and the City: Narratives, Myth and the Urban Imaginary
PhD project, Miriam Meissner (2011-15)
Visual Culture and Interruption in Global Cities
AHRC-NWO research network, coordinated by Christoph Lindner and Shirley Jordan (2012-14)
Nazi Soundscapes: Sound, Technology and Urban Space in Germany, 1933-1945.
Book
Carolyn Birdsall
2012
Global Garbage Conference
June 12-13 2014, Paris
This interdisciplinary conference will bring together scholars from across the humanities and social sciences to explore the many ways in which garbage – in its diverse forms and articulations – is being produced, managed, experienced, imagined, circulated, concealed, and aestheticized in contemporary urban environments and across different creative and cultural practices.
