On behalf of the School of Media Studies here at The New School, we’d like to welcome our new faculty member, Fabiola Hanna, who joins us this semester as Assistant Professor of Emerging Media. Fabiola will be teaching Media Practices: Design and Designing Methods for
SMS Faculty MELISSA FRIEDLING presented the paper, “Touching Teaching: Animating Care and Conjuring Closeness in Contactless Times” at the University Film and Video Association annual meeting in July 2021. She also reflected on the incredible work of students in her spring 2021 School of Media Studies course, Animating Resistance: The Subversive Art of Experimental
SMS Dean VLAD NIKOLIC recently produced the film The Dummer, which has been acquired in North America by 1091 Pictures. The film stars Danny Glover and will be released in November 2021. Glover stars as Mark Walker, a Vietnam war veteran who has become a lawyer and political advocate for soldiers
Neyda Martinez, Associate Professor, Media Management, School of Media Studies and Co-Director, Impact Entrepreneurship Initiative is part of a select international cohort invited to participate in the Sundance Producers Summit with the documentary film she is currently producing “Bartolo,” directed by Leandro Fabrizi-Rios. Projects invited to participate in the Sundance Producers Summit
SMS Faculty Peter Asaro recently spoke with The Washington Post about AI weapons, autonomous war, and how different countries are using the new technology. “The advanced militaries are pushing the envelope of these technologies,” according to Asaro, who is also co-founder of the International Committee
SMS Faculty AMIR HUSAK was recently interviewed by Guillermina Zabala Suarez, Media Studies ’21, and SMS Faculty Sumita S. Chakravarty in Migration Mapping. In the interview, he discusses the situation in his former homeland, deploring both its embroiled politics and the invisibility of its suffering for outsiders to the region. Read the