Marina Hassapopoulou

Assistant Professor in the Department of Cinema Studies at NYU

Executive member since 2019
Region - USA

Biography

Marina Hassapopoulou is Assistant Professor in the Department of Cinema Studies, and has served as the Associate Co-Director of the Moving Image Archiving and Preservation program for the academic year 2018-19, at Tisch School of the Arts, New York University (NYU). She has been awarded a Faculty Fellowship from the NYU Center of the Humanities for the academic year 2019-2020, where she will be working on her upcoming book, Interactive Cinema: The Ethics of Participation and Collectivity in the Era of (Dis)Connection. Her book project focuses on participatory multimedia experiments in the history of cinema and develops
new frameworks for spectatorship in the digital age. She has published articles and book chapters on topics including interactive and software cinema, digital spectatorship and algorithmic culture, border cinemas and migration, experimental and Hollywood production, fandom, European cinema, hybrid pedagogy, expanded television, and digital humanities. This past year, she has also been involved new interdisciplinary initiatives for Artificial Intelligence and machine learning in the Arts and Humanities, including An[0]ther {AI} in Art (launched by Amir Baradaran, with the support of Columbia University and the Knight Foundation) and other
international collaborations. Working on a range of media besides print, her projects include cultural videos for folklore archives, multimedia scholarship, DIY no/low-budget media-making, as well as online open-access collaborative initiatives including: the student-focused Interactive Media Archive < https://interactivemediaarchive.wordpress.com >, the online directory focused
on cross-pollinations between Cinema, Media Studies and Digital Humanities and the recently-launched Weird Wave Archive that provides the first English-language scholarly resource on Greek cinema In addition to publications, she is also working on a number of digital humanities and mixed media projects on topics including local activism, youth cinemas, artificial intelligence, VR/AR, and experimental pedagogy.