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Patricia Pisters is professor of Media Studies (with a specialization in Film Studies) at the University of Amsterdam. From 2015 until 2019 she was director of research of the Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis (ASCA), one of the researh schools of the Faculty of Humanities. She is member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences (KNAW) and the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities (KHMW). Between 2010 and 2013 she was chair of the department of Media Studies. Between 2011 and 2015 she was elected member of the steering committee of NECS (European Network for Cinema and Media Studies). She is one of the founding editors of the peer reviewed Open Access journal NECSUS: European Journal of Media Studies. With Bernd Herzogenrath she is series editor of Thinking I Media at Bloomsbury. With Wanda Strauven and Malte Hagener she is series editor of Film Culture in Transition at Amsterdam University Press. In 2019 she was scholar in residence at the EYE Film Institute Netherlands and fellow at the Cinepoetics Centre for Advanced Film Studies at the Freie Universitat in Berlin. Since 2022 she is board member of the Open Foundation and of Extra Extra Magazine. An overview of her publications can be found on her ORCID page.
Patricia Pisters was associate of the Institute for Advanced Studies (IAS) at the University of Amsterdam from 2016 – 2018. Between 2014 and 2022 she was member of the supervisory board of the Dutch Film Fund (Nederlands Film Fonds). Between 2013 and 2021 she was member of the advisory board of the Dutch Film Academy (Nederlandse Filmacademie). She is connected to NICA (Netherlands Institute 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). In 2010 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: Senses of Cerebral Screens. In 2013 she was co-director (with Josef Fruchtl) of the Film-Philosophy conference in Amsterdam, in collaboration with EYE Film Institute Netherlands. In 2016 her book Filming for the Future, about the work of Dutch filmmaker Louis van Gasteren, won the Louis Hartlooper Price for best film publication. She co-directing the International Conference ‘Worlding the Brain’, dedicated to Patterns, Rhythms and Narratives in neuroscience and the humanities. In 2017 Worlding the Brain had its second edition in Amsterdam, focusing on Affect, Care and Engagement, including one evening program in the Stedelijk Museum that she curated. Together with Adam Nocek from Center for Philosophical Technologies of Arizona State University, she organized the GeoMedia Research Network symposium in June 2017 at Mediamatic in Amsterdam, including a public program. In June 2018 she co-organized the annual NECS conference for the European Network for Cinema and Media Studies in Amsterdam. Since 2020 she is actively involved in the ICPR Conferences (Interdisciplinary Conference on Psychedelic Research) organized by the Open Foundation.
Patricia Pisters 