Call for Applications: Open Rivers Graduate Student Committee (2025–26 Cohort)
Open Rivers: Rethinking Water, Place & Community welcomes participants from any university and any graduate program to join its Graduate Student Committee. Members will gain practical professional experience in digital media, editing, and publishing while exploring public scholarship in their own practice. Participants will gain skills that serve both academic and non-academic career paths. Deadline: May 16, 2025 https://openrivers.lib.umn.edu/gsc/
The Life-Cycle of Moving Images: Ecological Entanglements from Conception to Consumption and Beyond
Concept and Scope Inspired by the “three ecologies” framework developed in Adrian Ivakhiv’s Ecologies of the Moving Image: Cinema, Affect, Nature (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2013), The Life-Cycle of Moving Images articulates a holistic model for understanding moving images both within their multiple ecological contexts and across their entire “life-cycle.” It defines this life-cycle not only in material terms, as life-cycle analyses of objects have done in such fields as industrial ecology or science and technology studies, nor in exclusively cultural and representational terms, ...