“The Colour Out of Space”, Marine de Dardel, 2025.

Full list of Conferences

Johannes Binotto

• Binotto, Johannes (with Lee, Kevin B.). Discussion on different types of media in a new installation. “The Extended Play“, 12 June 2024. https://thevideoessay.com/on-the-extended-play-w-johannes-binotto-kevin-b-lee

• Binotto, Johannes. Winner of the “Swiss Competition Award”. 2024 Videoex Experimental Film & Video Festival, Zurich, 2 June 2024. https://videoex.ch/videoex/auszeichnungen

Evelyn Kreutzer

• Kreutzer, Evelyn (with Lee, Kevin B.; Montañez Smukler, Maya; Quigley, Mark; Ucedo, Nicole). Co-organizer “The Future of Reality: From Locarno to LA” conference and two-part screening event. UCLA Film & Television Archive, Los Angeles, 24-25 October 2025. https://www.cinema.ucla.edu/events/future-of-reality-from-locarno-to-la-2025

• Kreutzer, Evelyn (with Avissar, Ariel; Donnelly, Cormac; Garwood, Ian; Loock, Kathleen). Curator “Audiovisual Essays Section”. 33rd Screen Studies Conference, University of Glasgow, UK, 27-29 June 2025. https://www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/screen/conference/

• Kreutzer, Evelyn (with Cipelletti, Silvia; Grizzaffi, Chiara; Lee, Kevin B.). Workshop “Site-based Videographic Methods for Film Festival Research”. NECS Conference, Lisbon, 19 June 2025. https://necs.org/conference/2025/lisbon

• Kreutzer, Evelyn. Presentation “AI: A Cinema of Attractions?”. Ethics and Aesthetics of Artificial Images (EA-AI) Conference, Università IUAV di Venezia, Venice, 8-10 May 2025. https://www.iuav.it/it/eventi/ethics-and-aesthetics-artificial-images-ea-ai-2025

• Kreutzer, Evelyn (with Binotto, Johannes; Lee, Kevin B.). Curator “Les chambres obscures de l’IA #3”. Screening event in connection with the exhibition “Le monde selon l’AI”, Jeu de Paume, Paris, 6 May 2025. https://jeudepaume.org/evenement/les-chambres-obscures-de-lia-%E2%99%AF3/

• Kreutzer, Evelyn. Presentation “All the Memory of Artificial Intelligence” Couper/générer. Le montage à l’épreuve de l’IA Conference, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Maison de la Recherche, Paris, 26 April 2025. https://jeudepaume.org/evenement/couper-generer-le-montage-a-lepreuve-de-lia/

• Kreutzer, Evelyn. Presentation “Televising Taste: A Videographic Book on Music on Screen”. Society for Cinema & Media Studies (SCMS) Conference, Chigago, 5 April 2025. https://www.cmstudies.org/page/2025ConferenceProgram

• Kreutzer, Evelyn. Guest lecture “How to Write with Sounds and Images”. University of California, Riverside, March 2025.

• Kreutzer, Evelyn (with DiGravio, Will; Gibbs, John; Lee, Kevin B.; Oliva, Mara). Curator “Expanded Screens: The Video Essay” Four-part screening event, Museum of the Moving Image, New York, 3-5 January 2025. https://movingimage.org/series/expanded-screens-the-video-essay/

• Kreutzer, Evelyn. Presentation “Cutting Air: Videographic Explorations of Documentary Ethics” American Historical Association Annual Meeting, New York, 3 January 2025. https://aha.confex.com/aha/2025/webprogram/Session26085.html

• Kreutzer, Evelyn (with Lee, Kevin B.) Presentation “Cinematic A.I. Future”, “If AI Was the Answer, What Was the Question, Again?” Conference, Academy of Fine Arts Munich, 5 November 2024. https://generativemedia.net/event/if-ai-was-the-answer-what-was-the-question-again/

• Kreutzer, Evelyn. Conversation “AI and the Survival of Cinema” (Talk: AI and Generative Humanity), Locarno Film Festival Basecamp, August 2024. https://www.filmexplorer.ch/detail/ai-and-the-survival-of-cinema-evelyn-kreutzer/

• Kreutzer, Evelyn (with O’Leary, Alan). Conversation “On the Importance of Writing” in The Video Essay Podcast, 22 August 2024. https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/thevideoessay/episodes/THE-EXTENDED-PLAY-Johannes-Binotto–Kevin-B–Lee-Live-at-Austellungsraum-Klingentalat-e2kqbgp/a-abbpu5n

• Kreutzer, Evelyn. “Animating the Audiovisual Archive.” Conference presentation at 2024 Eye International Conference, Eye Filmmuseum, Amsterdam, 27-29 May 2024. https://www.eyefilm.nl/en/programme/eye-international-conference-2024/1135095

• Kreutzer, Evelyn. Roundtable organizer and participant for “Sounding the Video Essay: On Sound and Music in Videographic Scholarship”, co-organized with Kathleen Loock, DGfA 70th Annual Meeting 2024, Carl von Ossietzky Oldenburg, Oldenburg, 23-25 May 2024. https://uol.de/en/english-american/dgfa-70th-annual-meeting-23-25-may-2024/program

• Kreutzer, Evelyn. Roundtable participant “Reflecting on a Decade of [in]Transition and Toward the Next Decade of Videographic Criticism”, Society for Cinema & Media Studies (SCMS) Conference, Boston, 14-17 March 2024. https://www.cmstudies.org/page/past_conferences

• Kreutzer, Evelyn (with Ross, Julian; Pantenburg, Volker). Curator “2024 Video Essay Gallery” (both online and on site), Filmexplorer, Basel, 2024. https://www.filmexplorer.ch/video-essay-gallery/

• Kreutzer, Evelyn. Guest lecture “Televising Taste: A Videographic Monograph”, Basel Academy of Art and Design (HGK), Basel, 2024.

Kevin B. Lee

• Lee, Kevin B. Conference & Screening (co-organizer) “The Future of Cinema: From Locarno to LA”. UCLA Film & Television Archive, Los Angeles (USA), 24-25 October 2025. https://swissnex.org/sanfrancisco/event/future-of-cinema/

• Lee, Kevin B. Talk and Screening “Khartoum” as part of Film Festival Diritti Umani Lugano. Università della Svizzera italiana (USI) – Auditorium, Lugano, 17 October 2025. https://luganoeventi.ch/en/events/26852/khartoum/

• Lee, Kevin B. Public talk & Screening “AI Film Now” on AI & film. Università della Svizzera italiana (USI), Lugano, 3 October 2025.

• Lee, Kevin B. Curated and led conference “Future of Reality”. Locarno Film Festival, Locarno, 9-13 August 2025. https://www.locarnofestival.ch/about/factory/future-of-cinema/conferences.html

• Lee, Kevin B. Appearance on RSI, interview & discussion about “cinema & AI”. RSI Radiotelevisione della Svizzera italiana, Lugano, August 2025.

• Lee, Kevin B. (with Kreutzer, Evelyn; Cipelletti, Silvia; Grizzaffi Chiara). Workshop “Site-based Videographic Methods for Film Festival Research”, NECS Conference, Lisbon, 19 June 2025. https://necs.org/conference/2025/lisbon

• Lee, Kevin B. Conference “Towards a Generative Archival Practice”. Ethics & Aesthetics of Artificial Images (EA – AI), Università IUAV di Venezia, Venice, 8-10 May 2025. https://www.iuav.it/it/eventi/ethics-and-aesthetics-artificial-images-ea-ai-2025

• Lee, Kevin B. (with Kreutzer, Evelyn; Binotto, Johannes). Curator “Les chambres obscures de l’IA #3”, screening event in connection with the exhibition Le monde selon l’AI, Jeu de Paume, Paris, 6 May 2025. https://jeudepaume.org/evenement/les-chambres-obscures-de-lia-%E2%99%AF3/

• Lee, Kevin B. “Videographic Criticism as Dissemination: Ideology of Formats, Formats of Ideology”. SCMS Annual Conference, Chicago, 5 April 2025. https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.cmstudies.org/resource/resmgr/2025_conference/SCMS_2025_INT-online_v4.pdf

• Lee, Kevin B. (with DiGravio, Will; Gibbs, John; Kreutzer, Evelyn; Oliva, Mara). Screening series & discussion “Expanded Screens: The Video Essay”. Museum of the Moving Image, New York City, 3-5 January 2025. https://movingimage.org/series/expanded-screens-the-video-essay/

• Lee, Kevin B. “Viewing with Care: Videographic Afterlives of Extremist Media”. American Historical Association Annual Meeting, New York City, 3 January 2025. https://aha.confex.com/aha/2025/webprogram/Paper39166.html

• Lee, Kevin B. Masterclass “Open Lecture at FMK Singidunum University”, Belgrade, 6 December 2024. https://fmk.singidunum.ac.rs/vesti/predavanje-kevin-b-lee/

• Lee, Kevin B. Artist Program “Kevin B. Lee”. 32nd Alternative Film/Video Festival, Belgrade, 5 December 2024. https://www.seecult.org/dogadjaji/32-alternative-filmvideo-2024-bg/

• Lee, Kevin B. Conference “The Generative Afterlives of Problematic Archives” in If AI was the Answer, What Was the Question, Again?. Academy of Fine Arts Munich (AdBK), Germany, 5 November 2024. https://generativemedia.net/event/if-ai-was-the-answer-what-was-the-question-again/

• Lee, Kevin B (with Binotto, Johannes; Kreutzer, Evelyn). Presentation “DECODING OR RE-ENCODING?” video essay at As We May See: Tracking and Tracing the Image after Farocki. Zurich, 1 November 2024. https://backend.zentrumkuensteundkulturtheorie.ch/site/assets/files/4773/as-we_may-see_flyer-low.pdf

• Lee, Kevin B. Lecture on AI and filmmaking. German Film and Television Academy Berlin (DFFB), 30 September 2024.

• Lee, Kevin B. Conference “Cinema and Audiovisual Futures”, Locarno Film Festival Basecamp, 13-16 August 2024. https://search.usi.ch/en/projects/3336/conference-cinema-and-audiovisual-futures, https://www.locarnofestival.ch/festival/experience/future-of-survival.html 

• Lee, Kevin B. Presentation, “The Future of Survival Public Encounter: Listening to Ice”, Locarno Film Festival, 15 August 2024. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7reFUdkDepM

• Lee, Kevin B. Presentation “The Future of Survival Public Encounter: Digital Migration”, Locarno Film Festival Basecamp, 14 August 2024. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrzLCezN4-Y

• Lee, Kevin B. Presentation, “The Future of Survival Public Encounter: AI and Generative Humanity”, Locarno Film Festival Basecamp, 13 August 2024. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyJzsylJfKE&t=276s

• Lee, Kevin B. Presentation “From AI to paper: de-materializing and re-materializing evidence”, at Synthetic Vision / Images of Power Conference, Framer Framed, Amsterdam, 28 June 2024. https://www.recntr.nl/2024/06/synthetic-vision-images-of-power-conference-27-28-june-framer-framed-amsterdam/ 

• Lee, Kevin B. Keynote “Navigational Approaches to Essay Cinema”, XIII AIM International Conference”, Escola Superior Artística do Porto (ESAP), Porto (Portugal), 30 May 2024. https://esap.pt/en/atividades_dep/xiii-congresso-internacional-aim/

• Lee, Kevin B. Presentation “Towards a Generative Archival Practice”, Ethics and Aesthetics of Artificial Images (EA-AI) Conference, Università IUAV di Venezia, Venice, 8-10 May 2025. https://www.iuav.it/it/eventi/ethics-and-aesthetics-artificial-images-ea-ai-2025

• Lee, Kevin B. Curator “Key Words for Key Films”. Multi-screen video essay exhibition inaugurating the new Video Room at the Museo Nazionale del Cinema, Turin, 3 April 2024 – ongoing installations through 2025. https://www.museocinema.it/en/news/10160

• Lee, Kevin B. Presentation and discussion “The Ecology of Science Fiction” as part of “Elemental Bodies: Ecologies, Media, Extraction”, Woche der Kritik, Berlin, 16 February 2024. https://wochederkritik.de/en_US/elemental-bodies-ecologies-media-extraction/

• Lee, Kevin B. (with Cipelletti, Silvia). “Filmmaking Against All Odds? Cinema, Criticism, Climate Crisis”, Woche der Kritik Conference, Berlin, 14 February 2024. https://wochederkritik.de/en_US/konferenz-2024/

Silvia Cipelletti

• Cipelletti, Silvia. Presentation “Algorithmic Borders”. Ethics and Aesthetics of Artificial Images (EA-AI) Conference, Università IUAV di Venezia, Venice, 8-10 May 2025. https://www.iuav.it/it/eventi/ethics-and-aesthetics-artificial-images-ea-ai-2025

• Cipelletti, Silvia. “CinePaesaggi – Modes of Appropriating Rural Landscapes in Film Practice and Research”. Villa Medici, Rome, 27 March 2024. https://www.istitutosvizzero.it/it/tavola-rotonda/cinepaesaggi/ 

• Cipelletti, Silvia (with Lee, Kevin B.). Woche der Kritik Conference “Filmmaking Against All Odds? Cinema, Criticism, Climate Crisis”. Berlin, 14 February 2024. https://wochederkritik.de/en_US/konferenz-2024/

• Cipelletti, Silvia. Workshop “Come fare il cinema non estrattivamente” as part of “Elemental Bodies: Ecologies, Media, Extraction”. Woche der Kritik, Berlin, 16 February 2024. http://google.com/url?q=https://wochederkritik.de/en_US/elemental-bodies-ecologies-media-extraction/&sa=D&source=docs&ust=1761296679940285&usg=AOvVaw0vyom0G1ZPEhdCZBs1Q5Kf

Marine de Dardel

• de Dardel, Marine. Speaker/Presenter “The Cage as Dispositif: Framing Power, Desire and Wonder in Domestic Interiors”. International Conference “Animals Inside: A History of Objects and Furniture for Pets in Domestic Interiors”, MAIA – Master of Arts in Interior Architecture, HEAD-Genève (HES-SO), Geneva, 17 November 2025. https://head-maia.ch/event/animals-inside-call-for-presentations/

• de Dardel, Marine (with Brühwiler, Wendelin; Sautter, Martin; Lange, Jeppe). Speaker, Screening and Panel “Truth or Data”. Panel curated by Canciani, John & Heuer, Lea, 29th Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur, Winterthur, 4-9 November 2025. https://www.kurzfilmtage.ch/en/programme/2025/Special-Programmes/Truth-or-Data

• de Dardel, Marine. Video Essay Screening “The Color out of Space” at “The Future of Reality” event. PalaCinema, Locarno, 13 August 2025.

• de Dardel, Marine. Organiser (International Conference) for “The Future of Reality”. USI in collaboration with Locarno Film Festival, 11-13 August 2025. https://www.locarnofestival.ch/about/factory/future-of-cinema/conferences.html

• de Dardel, Marine. Speaker/Presenter (Podium Discussion) and Video Essay Screening and Panel “(DES)ASTRES.ai” at “Le Monde Selon l’IA” event. Musée du Jeu de Paume, Paris, 6 April 2025.

• de Dardel, Marine. Video Essay Screening for “Still Life” at “L’Immagine e la Parola” workshop. CInema Rialto, Locarno, 17 August 2024.

• de Dardel, Martine. Organiser (International Conference) for International Conference “The Future of Survival”. USI in collaboration with Locarno Film Festival, Locarno, 14-16 August 2024.

• de Dardel, Marine. Speaker (Podium Discussion)/Presenter for “Le Monde Selon l’IA”. Musée du Jeu de Paume, Paris, 6 April 2024.

• de Dardel, Marine. Screening “(DES)ASTRES.ai”. Musée due Jeu de Paume, Paris, 6 April 2024.

• de Dardel, Marine. Presenter and Screening “L’Immagine e la Parola – Noi e gli Altri: Un Incontro con il cinema di Alice Diop”. International Workshop, USI in collaboration with Locarno Film Festival, Lugano, 16-17 March 2024.

• de Dardel, Marine. Speaker/Presenter (International Symposium) “Disjecta Membra”. “Design Promoviert #30”, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (HSLU), Lucerne, 2024.