ABOUT Guests Guest speakers, visiting scholars, and collaborators who have contributed to the Department of Communication and Design. Speaker Signe Baumane Animator & Filmmaker Workshop Leader Vince Briffa Associate Professor of Digital Arts, University of Malta Speaker Amnon Buchbinder Filmmaker & Screenwriting Professor, York University Speaker Michael Chauvistre Documentary Filmmaker & Director Research Talk Speaker Daniela Dimitrova Professor of Journalism & Mass Communication, Iowa State University Speaker Thomas Elsaesser Film Historian & Professor Emeritus of Film Studies, University of Amsterdam Keynote Speaker Wolfgang Ernst Professor of Media Theory, Humboldt University Berlin Speaker Harun Farocki Filmmaker & Essay Film Director Speaker Dan Geva Filmmaker & Professor of Documentary Film, Beit-Berl College 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 Speaker Pirooz M. Kalayeh Filmmaker & Assistant Professor of Screenwriting Speaker Michel Kichka Graphic Novelist & Author Keynote Speaker John David Krivit Audio Educator & Audio Engineering Society Past President Speaker Geert Lovink Media Theorist & Founding Director, Institute of Network Cultures Artist/Curator in Residence Carlos Cabral Nunes Multimedia Artist & Curator Keynote Speaker Annie Van der Oever Professor of Film & Media History Speaker Aras Ozgun Media Scholar & Assistant Professor of Cinema and Digital Media, İzmir University of Economics Keynote Speaker Jussi Parikka Professor of Media Theory & Media Archaeology Speaker Richard Parncutt Professor of Systematic Musicology, University of Graz Speaker Peter Purg Associate Professor of New Media, University of Nova Gorica COMD Talks Speaker Bulut Reyhanoglu Film Producer Speaker Franz-Bernhard Serexhe Art Historian, Curator & Digital Art Expert Speaker Paulo de Tarso Fonseca Silva Story Mediator & Educator Speaker Martin Thau Screenwriter & Screenwriting Lecturer Speaker Boris Tomschiczek Documentary Filmmaker & Founder of NONFIKTIONALE Film Festival Visiting Scholar Nur Uysal Associate Professor of Public Relations, DePaul University Keynote Speaker Egbert van Wyngaarden Transmedia Entertainment Expert & Media Consultant
