Publication Reconfiguring the Portrait edited by Abraham Geil and Tomáš Jirsa.
Reconfiguring the Portrait redefines portraiture in the post-digital era, encompassing diverse media like literature, social media, and facial recognition. It presents portraiture as a cultural technique for dynamic identity performance in various media and challenging traditional notions. Includes case studies from France, Italy, Germany, Finland, Russia, Mexico, Argentina, South Korea, Canada, and the United States. Featuring international scholars, it explores the evolution of portraits and their impact on contemporary culture and technology.
Abraham Geil directs the MA Program in Film Studies, and is a Senior Research Fellow at the Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis (ASCA).His recent articles can be found in journals such as Novel, Polygraph, World Picture, Paragraph, and more. Tom Jirsa is Associate Professor of Literary Studies at Palacky University Olomouc, where he directs the PhD Program in Film, Television and Theatre Studies. His most recent publications include Disformations: Affects, Media, Literature (Bloomsbury, 2021) and How to Do Things with Affects: Affective Triggers in Aesthetic Forms and Cultural Practices (Brill, 2019), co-edited with Ernst van Alphen. In 2015 and 2017, he was awarded a fellowship from The International Research Institute for Cultural Techniques and Media Philosophy in Weimar.