ABOUT Guests Guest speakers, visiting scholars, and collaborators who have contributed to the Department of Communication and Design. Esin Aydıngöz Film & TV Composer, Conductor & Berklee Screen Scoring Faculty Exhibiting Artist Perry Bard Interdisciplinary Artist & Filmmaker Signe Baumane Animator & Filmmaker Thomas Brennan Film Post-Production Lecturer & Head of Bachelor's Program in Film and Media, Stockholm University of the Arts Workshop Leader Vince Briffa Associate Professor of Digital Arts, University of Malta Amnon Buchbinder Filmmaker & Screenwriting Professor, York University COMD Talk Speaker Gerda Cammaer Filmmaker & Professor of Film, Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson) Michael Chauvistre Documentary Filmmaker & Director Film Screening Guest Helen Clark Former Prime Minister of New Zealand & Former UNDP Administrator Aytekin Çakmakçı Cinematographer & Director of Photography COMD Seminar Speaker Onur Demirel Digital Marketing Trainer, Corporate Consultant & University Lecturer COMD Talk Speaker Shane Denson Associate Professor of Film & Media Studies, Stanford University Research Talk Speaker Daniela Dimitrova Professor of Journalism & Mass Communication, Iowa State University Antje Ehmann Filmmaker & Artist Thomas Elsaesser Film Historian & Professor Emeritus of Film Studies, University of Amsterdam Speaker Köken Ergun Video & Performance Artist Keynote Speaker Wolfgang Ernst Professor of Media Theory, Humboldt University Berlin Harun Farocki Filmmaker & Essay Film Director Fulbright Scholar Katherine Fry Professor of Media Studies, Brooklyn College (CUNY) Speaker Dan Geva Filmmaker & Professor of Documentary Film, Beit-Berl College COMD Seminar Speaker Seth Gitner Associate Professor of Multimedia Journalism, Syracuse University (Newhouse) Speaker Oliver Grau Art Historian & Media Theoretician COMD Seminar Speaker Doğan Gürpınar Associate Professor of History, Istanbul Technical University Workshop Leader Deborah Hardt Documentary Filmmaker & Media Academic Lefteris Heretakis Graphic Designer & Lecturer Kylie Jarrett Associate Professor of Media Studies, University College Dublin Exhibiting Artist Dan Oki (Slobodan Jokić) Filmmaker & Professor of Film and Media Arts, University of Split Pirooz M. Kalayeh Filmmaker & Assistant Professor of Screenwriting Can Karadoğan Professor of Music Technology, Istanbul Technical University (ITU TMDK) Sarah Kesenne Art Historian & Researcher, LUCA School of Arts Michel Kichka Graphic Novelist & Author Workshop Leader Hayk Kirakosyan Cinematographer & Director of Photography Martin Koplin Independent Filmmaker, Media Artist & Researcher, M2C Institute for Applied Media Technology and Culture COMD Talks Speaker Ecem Dilan Köse New Media Artist & Designer Valeriya Krachunova-Popova Sound Designer & Post-Production Engineer (MPSE) Keynote Speaker John David Krivit Audio Educator & Audio Engineering Society Past President Michael Liegl Senior Research Associate in Sociology, Hamburg University Speaker Geert Lovink Media Theorist & Founding Director, Institute of Network Cultures Vincent Lowy Film Critic & Lecturer in Cinema Studies David MacDougall Visual Anthropologist & Documentary Filmmaker, Australian National University Judith MacDougall Visual Anthropologist & Documentary Filmmaker COMD Seminar Speaker Jörg Matthes Professor of Communication Science, University of Vienna Angela Melitopoulos Media Artist & Professor, Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts Rosa Menkman Media Artist & Glitch Art Theorist Project Mentor & Exhibiting Artist Jean Molitor Photographer & Visual Artist Sabine Niederer Professor of Visual Methodologies, Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences Artist/Curator in Residence Carlos Cabral Nunes Multimedia Artist & Curator Keynote Speaker Annie Van der Oever Professor of Film & Media History Aras Özgün Media Scholar & Assistant Professor of Cinema and Digital Media, İzmir University of Economics Mine Pakel Sound Designer, Composer & Film Score Artist Keynote Speaker Jussi Parikka Professor of Media Theory & Media Archaeology Speaker Richard Parncutt Professor of Systematic Musicology, University of Graz Andreas Haugstrup Pedersen Co-creator of the Lumiere Manifesto & Senior Staff Engineer at Slack COMD Night Talk Speaker Ana Peraica Media Theorist, Curator & Writer Dominic Pettman University Professor of Media & New Humanities, The New School Mauro Podini Documentary Filmmaker & Co-founder, Helios Sustainable Films COMD Seminar Speaker John Postill Senior Lecturer in Communication, RMIT University Melbourne Metje Postma Lecturer in Visual Ethnography, Leiden University Speaker Peter Purg Associate Professor of New Media, University of Nova Gorica Workshop Leader Leonard Retel-Helmrich Documentary Filmmaker & Cinematographer COMD Talks Speaker Bulut Reyhanoglu Film Producer Visiting Faculty Rashmi Sawhney Associate Arts Professor of Film & New Media, NYU Abu Dhabi Stanislav Semerdjiev Screenwriter, Professor & Executive Director of CILECT Alumni & Former Faculty Basak Senova Curator, Designer & Senior Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Applied Arts Vienna Speaker Franz-Bernhard Serexhe Art Historian, Curator & Digital Art Expert Britta Shoot Videoblogger & Co-author of the Lumiere Manifesto Paulo de Tarso Fonseca Silva Story Mediator & Educator Keynote Speaker Pieter Snapper Mastering Engineer, Composer & Producer Kerstin Stutterheim Professor of Film & Media, Bournemouth University Bernard Surugue Ethnomusicologist, Documentary Filmmaker & Research Director, IRD (French National Research Institute) Florian Thalhofer Media Artist, Documentary Filmmaker & Inventor of the Korsakow System Martin Thau Screenwriter & Screenwriting Lecturer Vera Tollmann Media Theorist, Curator & Guest Researcher, Leuphana University Lüneburg Boris Tomschiczek Documentary Filmmaker & Founder of NONFIKTIONALE Film Festival Peter Tscherkassky Avant-Garde Filmmaker & Professor of Audiovisual Communication, Vienna University of Applied Arts Visiting Scholar Nur Uysal Associate Professor of Public Relations, DePaul University Michael Verdi Videoblogger, Artist & Product Designer Research Colloquium Speaker Stephan Vorbrugg Cinematographer & Film Producer (BVK) COMD Talk Speaker Uwe Walter TV Film Director, Screenwriting Consultant & Media Trainer Keynote Speaker Egbert van Wyngaarden Transmedia Entertainment Expert & Media Consultant
