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Alla Gadassik

Associate Professor, Media History + Theory

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Education:

PhD, Northwestern University
MA, York University
BMA, Toronto Metropolitan University

Bio

Dr. Alla Gadassik is a film scholar and curator of animated media. She founded the Animate Materials Workshop at ECU, developing animation as an exploration that bridges arts and sciences. Alla is the author of Graphite: Animated Traces and writes on the histories of animation, cinematography and film editing. Her curatorial projects include special screenings for festivals like GIRAF and OIAF, as well as Interlaced: Animation and Textiles, a large-scale survey exhibition at the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery | Len Lye Centre.

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Research Interests

Alla’s research interests include material aesthetics, animation studies, contemporary media art, experimental media, creative labour, handmade creative production and film history and theory.

24/25 Courses

Course Name Department Course Code Term
Media History MHIS 429 26/SP

Description

This advanced seminar course enables students to focus on a key topic in film and media (moving-image) theory. What role does the moving image play in contemporary philosophical and cultural debates? How have distinct theoretical lineages shaped the cinema as a mode of artistic practice and thought? How are emerging theoretical perspectives shaping the form, circulation, and reception of media objects today? While the specific topic and entry-point into these questions will vary each semester, the course will emphasize critical viewing, reading, and writing about moving-image aesthetics and theory.

This course is subject to priority rules; see here.

Each section of this course runs with a different topic. See here.

Pre-requisites

No prerequisites.