Screen Futures

This cluster investigates the transformative potential of screen media and storytelling to engage with and address social, personal and cultural crises. Under a framework that bridges the aesthetic and philosophical underpinnings of contemporary screen practices with critical issues such as socio-political transformation, environmental consciousness, ethical media intervention, and the creative and cultural shifts in digital storytelling authorship, the blending of critical theory and ethical inquiry operates to provoke thought, foster connection, and drive meaningful change in the screen sector.

This cluster is also engaged with employing creative practice research methods (including image-making, 360° filmmaking, documentary, and virtual and augmented reality apparatus) as means of expanding and challenging dominant modes of meaning-making, models of representation, and of authorship and creative control in the contemporary screen space.