{"id":70,"date":"2025-01-09T16:29:14","date_gmt":"2025-01-09T15:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/videoessays.org\/?page_id=70"},"modified":"2026-01-11T18:21:04","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T17:21:04","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/videoessays.org\/index.php\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About Videoessays.org"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\" wp-block-video eplus-wrapper\"><video autoplay playsinline muted autoplay loop muted src=\"https:\/\/videoessays.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/afterlives_gif2.mov\" playsinline><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\" has-text-align-right has-small-font-size eplus-wrapper\" style=\"border-style:none;border-width:0px;border-radius:100px;margin-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--80);margin-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--80)\">&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.alsolikelife.com\/afterlives\">Afterlives<\/a>&#8220;, Kevin B. Lee, 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\" wp-block-spacer eplus-wrapper\"><\/div>\n\n\n<h2 class=\" wp-block-heading eplus-wrapper eplus-styles-uid-5ad16f\">About Videoessays.org<\/h2>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:17px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\" wp-block-spacer eplus-wrapper\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\" eplus-wrapper\">In the research project \u201cThe Video Essay: Memories, Ecologies, Bodies\u201d funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.snf.ch\/en\">SNSF<\/a>) and co-hosted at the Universit\u00e0 della Svizzera italiana (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usi.ch\/it\">USI<\/a>) and Hochschule Luzern (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hslu.ch\/de-ch\/\">HSLU<\/a>), the current state and future potentials of the video essay is investigated. We look at the video essay as a digital media format that produces and shares (audiovisual) knowledge in such a way that it enables us to critically reflect on the media processes we\u2019re surrounded by.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:40px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\" wp-block-spacer eplus-wrapper\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\" eplus-wrapper\"><strong>Memories:<\/strong> how do contemporary digital environments impact our capacities and experiences of memories (our own and others\u2019)? And how do videographic practices express and respond to this? What is the role of the \u2018archive\u2019 in this day and age? What does \u2018original\u2019 and \u2018copy\u2019 even mean anymore?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:40px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\" wp-block-spacer eplus-wrapper\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\" eplus-wrapper\"><strong>Ecologies:<\/strong> where do video essays live? Who produces them? Where and how do they circulate within and beyond festivals, academic events, online journals, video platforms, social media, and museum spaces? How do these various spaces interfere with video essay production? Who makes money with them and why can some afford not to?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:40px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\" wp-block-spacer eplus-wrapper\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\" eplus-wrapper\"><strong>Bodies:<\/strong> how do we make and experience video essays with our bodies? How do we inhabit, perform, and present research and criticism in an \u2018embodied\u2019 way? And how might video essays respond to our bodies as markers and agents of our identities and voices?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:40px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\" wp-block-spacer eplus-wrapper\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons eplus-wrapper is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-1 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\"><div class=\"is-style-outline wp-block-button eplus-wrapper is-style-outline--1 eplus-styles-uid-144ab3\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/data.snf.ch\/grants\/grant\/220313\">SNSF Research project<\/a><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"is-style-outline wp-block-button eplus-wrapper is-style-outline--2 eplus-styles-uid-1ba598\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/search.usi.ch\/en\/courses\/35271074\/video-essay-atelier\">Teaching at USI<\/a><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"is-style-outline wp-block-button eplus-wrapper is-style-outline--3 eplus-styles-uid-211eed\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hslu.ch\/de-ch\/hochschule-luzern\/forschung\/projekte\/detail\/?pid=5725\">Teaching at Hochschule Luzern<\/a><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\" wp-block-spacer eplus-wrapper\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\" wp-block-heading eplus-wrapper\"><strong>Contact<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\" wp-block-spacer eplus-wrapper\"><\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\" eplus-wrapper eplus-styles-uid-a62243\"><strong>Prof. Johannes Binotto (Co-Leader)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\" eplus-wrapper\"><a href=\"mailto:johannes.binotto@hslu.ch\">johannes.binotto@hslu.ch<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\" eplus-wrapper\">tel <a href=\"tel:+41412486264\">+41 41 248 62 64<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:1px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\" wp-block-spacer eplus-wrapper\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\" eplus-wrapper\">Hochschule Luzern \u2013 Design Film Kunst<br>Nylsuisseplatz 1<br>6020&nbsp;Emmenbr\u00fccke<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:40px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\" wp-block-spacer eplus-wrapper\"><\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\" eplus-wrapper eplus-styles-uid-a62243\"><strong>Dr. Evelyn Kreutzer (Co-Leader)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\" eplus-wrapper\"><a href=\"mailto:evelyn.kreutzer@usi.ch\">evelyn.kreutzer@usi.ch<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\" eplus-wrapper\">tel <a href=\"tel:41586664166\">+41 58 666 4166<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:1px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\" wp-block-spacer eplus-wrapper\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\" eplus-wrapper\">Universit\u00e0 della Svizzera italiana \u2013 Faculty of Communication, Culture and Society<br>Black Building, Office P104 (Level P1)<br>Via Buffi 13, 6900 Lugano<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:40px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\" wp-block-spacer eplus-wrapper\"><\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\" eplus-wrapper eplus-styles-uid-a62243\"><strong>Prof. Kevin B. Lee (Co-Leader)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\" eplus-wrapper\"><a href=\"mailto:kevin.b.lee@usi.ch\">kevin.b.lee@usi.ch<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\" eplus-wrapper\">tel&nbsp;<a href=\"tel:41586664536\">+41 58 666 45 36<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:1px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\" wp-block-spacer eplus-wrapper\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\" eplus-wrapper\">Universit\u00e0 della Svizzera italiana \u2013 Faculty of Communication, Culture and Society<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\" eplus-wrapper\">Black Building, Office P120 (Level P1)<br>Via Buffi 13, 6900 Lugano<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\" eplus-wrapper\">Canav\u00e9e, Office C3.60 (Level P3)<br>Viale Canav\u00e9e 5, 6850 Mendrisio<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\" wp-block-spacer eplus-wrapper\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Afterlives&#8220;, Kevin B. Lee, 2025. About Videoessays.org In the research project \u201cThe Video Essay: Memories, Ecologies, Bodies\u201d funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) and co-hosted at the Universit\u00e0 della Svizzera italiana (USI) and Hochschule Luzern (HSLU), the current state and future potentials of the video essay is investigated. 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