About

Patricia Pisters is professor of Media and Film studies at the University of Amsterdam. She is chair of the department of Media Studies of this University and member of the steering committee of NECS (European Network for Cinema and Media Studies). Her research and teaching focuses on film-philosophical questions in conjunction with neuroscience and on political implications of contemporary transnational screen culture.

She is connected to ASCA (Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis), NICA (Netherlands Instititute for Cultural Analysis), RMeS (Research School for Media Studies) and member of SCMS (Society for Cinema and Media Studies). In 2010 she was research fellow at the IKKM (Internationales Kolleg fur Kulturtechnikforschung und Medienphilosophie) of the Bauhaus University in Weimar (Germany). She co-directed with Rosi Braidotti (University of Utrecht) the third International Deleuze Studies Conference Connect, Continue, Create which included a summer school "Mille Gilles" and a double art exhibition The Smooth and the Striated. For the Rietveld Academy Studium Generale Festival she curated an international art and science program entitled Give me a Brain! Clash Continuum Senses of Cerebral Screens.

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