this is on wednesday!
this is on wednesday!
π« Digital Aesthetics Alert π«
We will have Kristen Whissel present on βAtomic Modernity, The Cultural Technique of Filtering, and Doom Town 3Dβ on Wed, Nov 12! More details in the flyer below. We look forward to seeing many of you there! :-)
Zoom here: tinyurl.com/449kr46x
this is this week!!
Digital Aesthetics is back! This time, we'll have artist-educator-activist, Joseph LaDappe, on Wed, Oct 22, from 5:00-6:30pm. Dinner will be served for in-person attendees. Zoom link for our online participants: tinyurl.com/5cjwfmej
More information below:
gracehan.xyz/2025/10/14/d...
need a quick reader on digital cinema before the start of the school year? check out my (dinosaur) themed entry for Handbuch Medientheorien im 21. Jahrhundert, which traces the turn from #psychoanalysis to #phenomenology in film theory. link here for more:
gracehan.xyz/2025/08/08/t...
in other news: i revamped my website! added a blog function to keep yβall updated with film festival / academic news. newest post is on the @sundance.org Press Inclusion Initiative β read more here:
gracehan.xyz/2025/08/04/s...
Grace Han in front of the screen showing a slide explaining Gen AI machine learning basics.
3 Panelists sit to the left of the screen that shows an advert for an upcoming talk they are doing while they address questions at the Q&A
First #sas36 panel: Bad Animation (= So Good) @aurelievpetit.bsky.social @ghahahan.bsky.social and Jacqueline Ristola
Excellent panel on "Bad" Animation by @ghahahan.bsky.social @aurelievpetit.bsky.social and Jacqueline Ristola at #SAS36
poster just dropped!
submissions for TASTE OF POMEGRANATE, a @screenshotasia Short Film Focus at #Pitt, is open until July 1. More details here ::
filmfreeway.com/Screenshot_SFF
this is tomorrow!
Submissions for SCREENSHOT SHORT FILM FOCUS: TASTE OF POMEGRANATE are now open until July! Showcase will be in Pittsburgh, Nov 8. If you have any short film work from or about the SWANA region, feel free to submit!
filmfreeway.com/Screenshot_SFF
@hankg.bsky.social @sunhahong.bsky.social @stanfordhai.bsky.social @shanedenson.bsky.social
Please join us for our last Digital Aesthetics event of the AY 24-25: an AI & Media Roundtable, with Sun-ha Hong, Johan Fredrikzon, Julia Irwin, and Hank Gerba on May 20, 5-7pm PT. Abstracts and bios can be found here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Zoom for the day of: tinyurl.com/5n8mdpbb
this is tomorrow !!
this is tomorrow!!
π«Digital Aesthetics alert (we have 2 events in the next week!)π«
Join us for a workshop with Thomas Pringle, who will present βStreaming Capital: Digital Aesthetics and Natural Infrastructureβ on Tues, April 29, 5-7pm PT.
Zoom link: tinyurl.com/34unt7nc
reminder that this is on friday! lunch will be served to in-person attendees (thai food)!
π«Digital Aesthetics Alert π«
Weβre pleased to welcome Kartik Nair for his talk, βForms in Motion: Elemental Effects in Contemporary Cinemaβ on Friday, April 25, from 1-3pm PT at McMurtry 370. Lunch will be served!
Zoom link otherwise: tinyurl.com/y48zask7
this is tomorrow!
βΌοΈDigital Aesthetics AlertβΌοΈ
Join us in our workshop with Sybille KrΓ€mer, who will speak on βThe Productivity of Artificial Flatnessβ at the SHC on Tuesday, April 8, 5-7pm PT. Flyer, full title, & Zoom below. We hope to see many of you there!
Zoom: tinyurl.com/38vjpaz6
deadline had been extended until TONIGHT 11:59pm PST!! galeca.org/Crimson-Hono...
A model is emerging, which is simply pretending the First Amendment doesn't exist
it has come to my attention that the url might be busted! hereβs the full link: stanford.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
βΌοΈ Digital Aesthetics alert βΌοΈ
Scott Richmond will come by for a hands-on demo and talk about a pre-circulated paper over lunch. Details below and for Zoom attendees, link here: tinyurl.com/mrzjv77d
Email me for the paper, if you havenβt received it already! ghahahan@stanford.edu
and so happy for the animation teams β IN THE SHADOW OF THE CYPRESS and FLOW β and the win for NO OTHER LAND. well-deserved, and again, hopeful outlook for indies and world cinema!
the #Oscar wins give me hope for the future of indie cinema & theatrical release (ANORA was only in theaters!) & is a testament to how prominent A24 β and anti-AI sentiment β has grown in american industry the past few years. super pleased with the wins this year - congrats everyone!!
π« 2 Digital Aesthetics workshops coming up! π«
Tues, Mar 4, 5-7pm PT- Rizvana Bradley, Borrowed Time: Mediating the Nonevental
Fri, Mar 14, 11:30-1p PT - Scott Richmond, Computing, Intimately: On Computational Transitional Objects
We hope to see many of you around!
! please share with your students !
@dorianawards.bsky.social
The Crimson Honors, a film criticism scholarship for LGBTQ undergrads at public schools in the US, is now live. $3000 for 3 promising film critics - deadline March 20, 2025 - link below for details!
galeca.org/Crimson-Hono...
this is today!
reminder that this is tomorrow!