Ithaca College

Patricia Zimmermann, professor of screen studies,  Dale Hudson (NYU-Abu Dhabi),  and Claudia Pederson (Wichita State University) published a chapter in a book probing the relationship between cinema and new media entitled Cinemas Em Redes: Tecnologia, Estetica e Politica Na Era Digital, edited by Gilberto Alexandre Sobrinho (Papirus Editora, Brazil, 2016).

Their essay, "Iteracoes Ambientais: Habitats Digitais E A Construcao De Mundos de Telas Multiplas" (Environmental Iterations:  Digital Habitats and the Making of Multiple Screen Worlds) analyzes how new media art environmental iterations change through minor mutations, repetitions, and morphings of code, interface, user-engagement, and platforms.

The essay analyzes new media projects from Canada, Germany, Italy, South Africa, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, and the United States originally curated for the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival  to demonstrate the complex constructions of the environmentally-located, networked-cinema imaginary: habitats where multiple organisms and species cohabitate; intertwinings of the computational and the biological; and virtual and imaginary mapping of new geographies.    

All three faculty serve on the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival (FLEFF) curatorial team: Zimmermann is codirector  Hudson is curator of new media art, and Pederson is assistant curator of new media art.