Dr. Sean Cubitt- From General Intellect to General Imagination

On September 25, Dr. Sean Cubitt gave a talk as part of the Digital Democracies Institute 2023, Fall Speaker Series. His research links film and media studies with ecocriticism, technological, aesthetic, economic and political history, and the media arts and aesthetics. He is series editor of Leonardo Books (MIT Press) and serves on the boards of the Media Art History network, Goldsmiths Press, Media Art 21 (CAFA Beijing / SFMOMA / He Foundation), Delocating Mountains (Austrian Science Fund) and a number of journal and books series including Screen, Cultural Politics, Visual Art Practice and the Journal of Environmental Media. He is currently working on the latest of nine funded research projects, this dealing with social media and photography. He has completed 31 PhD supervisions.