Jennifer O’Meara
@jomeara.bsky.social
Associate Prof. in Film Studies & IRC Laureate, Trinity College Dublin. Digital theory, screen voices, sound, immersive tech and synthetic media. And cats.
Visited Brian Maguire's La Grande Illusion at the Hugh Lane Gallery today and hard not to extend its commentary on the visual language of war to the atrocities in Gaza, and beyond. Also, expert level curation with this work mirrored in the flawed flooring.
December 29, 2024 at 2:41 PM
Visited Brian Maguire's La Grande Illusion at the Hugh Lane Gallery today and hard not to extend its commentary on the visual language of war to the atrocities in Gaza, and beyond. Also, expert level curation with this work mirrored in the flawed flooring.
Great to see the TOC for The Screens of Virtual Production (eds Sian Mitchell, Colin Perry, Sean Redmond & Lienors Torre).
18(!) chapters, covering VP from a whole host of angles, mine provides a genealogy for it by way of rear projection & other compositing tech. www.routledge.com/The-Screens-...
18(!) chapters, covering VP from a whole host of angles, mine provides a genealogy for it by way of rear projection & other compositing tech. www.routledge.com/The-Screens-...
December 9, 2024 at 5:15 PM
Great to see the TOC for The Screens of Virtual Production (eds Sian Mitchell, Colin Perry, Sean Redmond & Lienors Torre).
18(!) chapters, covering VP from a whole host of angles, mine provides a genealogy for it by way of rear projection & other compositing tech. www.routledge.com/The-Screens-...
18(!) chapters, covering VP from a whole host of angles, mine provides a genealogy for it by way of rear projection & other compositing tech. www.routledge.com/The-Screens-...
Spotify Wrapped is in its ChatGPT word salad phase.
December 4, 2024 at 4:05 PM
Spotify Wrapped is in its ChatGPT word salad phase.
The Last Showgirl joins the elusive group of film posters that foreground costume over face.
December 2, 2024 at 11:50 PM
The Last Showgirl joins the elusive group of film posters that foreground costume over face.
We highlight potential benefits to these filters, including their ability to playfully shield the user’s face from a critical gaze, to question gendered beauty norms, and to offer nonbinary users liminal media spaces through which to explore self-image.
November 7, 2024 at 1:25 PM
We highlight potential benefits to these filters, including their ability to playfully shield the user’s face from a critical gaze, to question gendered beauty norms, and to offer nonbinary users liminal media spaces through which to explore self-image.
We theorize facial AR filters in relation to feminist and queer methodologies, as well as screen theories of “seamfulness” and “mechanic sutures” (Wegenstein 2012). Case studies range from the viral Bold Glamour makeup filter to custom filters by musicians Björk & Ariana Grande.
November 7, 2024 at 1:24 PM
We theorize facial AR filters in relation to feminist and queer methodologies, as well as screen theories of “seamfulness” and “mechanic sutures” (Wegenstein 2012). Case studies range from the viral Bold Glamour makeup filter to custom filters by musicians Björk & Ariana Grande.
Stefania Marghitu & I have a new article out: “Seamful Sutures: Gender Exploration and Identity Expression Using Augmented Reality Facial Filters,” in an issue of Global Storytelling on the social mediascape, feminism & misogyny.
doi.org/10.3998/gs.5628
doi.org/10.3998/gs.5628
November 7, 2024 at 1:23 PM
Stefania Marghitu & I have a new article out: “Seamful Sutures: Gender Exploration and Identity Expression Using Augmented Reality Facial Filters,” in an issue of Global Storytelling on the social mediascape, feminism & misogyny.
doi.org/10.3998/gs.5628
doi.org/10.3998/gs.5628
Again we have the cultural capital of familiar media voices deployed to amplify a woman’s political voice, with a strong supporting role from cats: the #pussygrabsback hashtag and image is replaced with all forms of cat ladies for Kamala merch and memes.
August 9, 2024 at 4:12 PM
Again we have the cultural capital of familiar media voices deployed to amplify a woman’s political voice, with a strong supporting role from cats: the #pussygrabsback hashtag and image is replaced with all forms of cat ladies for Kamala merch and memes.
The Harris 'Brat' branding is replaying a lot of the playful online discourse from 2016's Trump & Hillary Clinton's campaign, which I looked at in a 2018 Velvet Light Trap article on 'Meme Girls versus Trump' (linked below).
www.academia.edu/43087164/Mem...
www.academia.edu/43087164/Mem...
August 9, 2024 at 4:11 PM
The Harris 'Brat' branding is replaying a lot of the playful online discourse from 2016's Trump & Hillary Clinton's campaign, which I looked at in a 2018 Velvet Light Trap article on 'Meme Girls versus Trump' (linked below).
www.academia.edu/43087164/Mem...
www.academia.edu/43087164/Mem...
📢 Just over 2 weeks left to submit an abstract (til Feb 16th) for the conference 'Screen Studies in the Age of Extended Reality & Synthetic Media', to take place in Trinity College Dublin on June 4th-5th. Full details: drive.google.com/file/d/1wRg-...
January 30, 2024 at 2:20 PM
📢 Just over 2 weeks left to submit an abstract (til Feb 16th) for the conference 'Screen Studies in the Age of Extended Reality & Synthetic Media', to take place in Trinity College Dublin on June 4th-5th. Full details: drive.google.com/file/d/1wRg-...
Looking forward to being on a panel at the Göteborg Film Festival, as part of their AI & cinema seminar. Excited for the one-off screening Another Persona, w/ Alma Pöysti appearing in an AI-processed reworking of Bergman's film. Event (29.1) details: program.goteborgfilmfestival.se/en/events/se...
January 17, 2024 at 6:21 PM
Looking forward to being on a panel at the Göteborg Film Festival, as part of their AI & cinema seminar. Excited for the one-off screening Another Persona, w/ Alma Pöysti appearing in an AI-processed reworking of Bergman's film. Event (29.1) details: program.goteborgfilmfestival.se/en/events/se...
Please check out (and share!) our CfP for the conference 'Screen Studies in the Age of Extended Reality & Synthetic Media', with a keynote by Prof. Jenna Ng. Supported by the Irish Research Council, it will take place in Trinity College Dublin on June 4th-5th. drive.google.com/file/d/1wRg-...
December 18, 2023 at 4:08 PM
Please check out (and share!) our CfP for the conference 'Screen Studies in the Age of Extended Reality & Synthetic Media', with a keynote by Prof. Jenna Ng. Supported by the Irish Research Council, it will take place in Trinity College Dublin on June 4th-5th. drive.google.com/file/d/1wRg-...
Ending classes for the year on a high, with a very thoughtful gift & note from a visiting Erasmus student: "Words from the surrealist Cocteau for a surreal winter." A week after the Dublin riots, another small reminder of how fortunate we are to have diversity in our local and academic communities.
December 1, 2023 at 2:42 PM
Ending classes for the year on a high, with a very thoughtful gift & note from a visiting Erasmus student: "Words from the surrealist Cocteau for a surreal winter." A week after the Dublin riots, another small reminder of how fortunate we are to have diversity in our local and academic communities.
Taylor Swift as serpentine dancer.
November 18, 2023 at 9:29 PM
Taylor Swift as serpentine dancer.
Looking forward to sharing some recent research at SCARF at the Trinity Long Room Hub next Monday at 10. The talk will look at the female face as a tech design experiment by historicising augmented beauty filters via analog filtration effects from classical Hollywood. All welcome.
November 16, 2023 at 12:02 PM
Looking forward to sharing some recent research at SCARF at the Trinity Long Room Hub next Monday at 10. The talk will look at the female face as a tech design experiment by historicising augmented beauty filters via analog filtration effects from classical Hollywood. All welcome.
There's a great line-up of events and exhibitions at the inaugural Betafestival.ie this weekend if you're in Dublin. Looking forward to being part of a panel on Generative AI and 'Authentic' Creativity on Sunday at 12pm as part of a Culture File radio/podcast recording.
November 3, 2023 at 5:45 PM
There's a great line-up of events and exhibitions at the inaugural Betafestival.ie this weekend if you're in Dublin. Looking forward to being part of a panel on Generative AI and 'Authentic' Creativity on Sunday at 12pm as part of a Culture File radio/podcast recording.
Realised the shadowy cornucopia was giving me White Lotus s1 vines.
November 2, 2023 at 7:43 AM
Realised the shadowy cornucopia was giving me White Lotus s1 vines.
Overflowing fruit bowl still life for world vegan day.🍍
November 1, 2023 at 8:10 PM
Overflowing fruit bowl still life for world vegan day.🍍
Cracked black cat mask found ominously on the road. Can only assume this is an Eyes Wide Shut-cum-Anomalisa warning about my imminent demise.
October 30, 2023 at 7:03 PM
Cracked black cat mask found ominously on the road. Can only assume this is an Eyes Wide Shut-cum-Anomalisa warning about my imminent demise.
It almost comes across like a memento mori or threat to the rest of the cast: who will be the next to pass? It reminded me of the untimely Glee cast deaths and, sure enough, the NY Post posted this greyed out image of the deceased members in 2020.
October 29, 2023 at 6:25 PM
It almost comes across like a memento mori or threat to the rest of the cast: who will be the next to pass? It reminded me of the untimely Glee cast deaths and, sure enough, the NY Post posted this greyed out image of the deceased members in 2020.
Unnerving to see this kind of photo editing in the context of someone's death. A technique most familiar perhaps from reality TV line-ups were contestants are faded out when they leave the show. Digital mourning scholars have lots of content with poor Matthew Perry and his cryptic final posts.
October 29, 2023 at 4:44 PM
Unnerving to see this kind of photo editing in the context of someone's death. A technique most familiar perhaps from reality TV line-ups were contestants are faded out when they leave the show. Digital mourning scholars have lots of content with poor Matthew Perry and his cryptic final posts.
"Eisenstein had just such a voice: listening to him, it was as though a flame with fibers protruding from it was advancing right toward me."
Researching vocal synesthesia and came across this delightful description of the voice of everyone's (2nd) favourite Soviet filmmaker.
Researching vocal synesthesia and came across this delightful description of the voice of everyone's (2nd) favourite Soviet filmmaker.
October 17, 2023 at 4:13 PM
"Eisenstein had just such a voice: listening to him, it was as though a flame with fibers protruding from it was advancing right toward me."
Researching vocal synesthesia and came across this delightful description of the voice of everyone's (2nd) favourite Soviet filmmaker.
Researching vocal synesthesia and came across this delightful description of the voice of everyone's (2nd) favourite Soviet filmmaker.
The most wonderful time of the year (Douglas Sirk foliage season hits Dublin).
October 7, 2023 at 10:08 PM
The most wonderful time of the year (Douglas Sirk foliage season hits Dublin).
And the colours continued at Dublin Veg Fest, where vegan food demonstrations and talks were interspersed with generous samples. The seaweed pesto and smoked paprika fermented cashew cream cheese had to come home.
September 24, 2023 at 5:44 PM
And the colours continued at Dublin Veg Fest, where vegan food demonstrations and talks were interspersed with generous samples. The seaweed pesto and smoked paprika fermented cashew cream cheese had to come home.