Advisory Board

Neil Fox

Neil Fox is Professor of film practice and pedagogy at Falmouth University where he is the research and strategy lead for the Sound/Image Cinema Lab, a production partner on films such as Rose of Nevada (Jenkin, 2025) and A Year In A Field (Morris, 2023). He also leads the Research Centre for Pedagogy Futures.

Neil is one of half of The Cinematologists podcast, described as “consistently one of the finest film podcasts around” by Sight and Sound. His debut feature film as screenwriter, Wilderness, was released by Sparky Pictures in 2021. His first book, Music Films, was released by BFI/Bloomsbury in May 2024.

Ludmila Lupinacci

Ludmila Lupinacci (she/her) is a Lecturer in Digital Media at the University of Leeds (UK). She holds a PhD in Media and Communications from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). She is interested in critical approaches to social media in everyday life, phenomenology of mediation, and technology and the body, and she has published on topics such as liveness, algorithmic temporality, and mindless scrolling.

Ludmila's focus is on the ordinary, banal, and apparently trivial experiences people have with and of digital media, and she is currently writing about the platformisation of moods and vibes.

Susanna Paasonen

Susanna Paasonen is Professor of Media Studies at University of Turku (Finland). With an interest in studies of sexuality, media, and affect, she is the author of twelve monographs, including Dependent, Distracted, Bored: Affective Formations in Networked Media (MIT Press, 2021), Yul Brynner: Exoticism, Cosmopolitanism and Screen Masculinity (Edinburgh University Press, 2023) and Hot Connections: Why Sexual Platforms Matter (MITP. 2026, with Jenny Sundén and Katrin Tiidenberg).

Susanna serves on the editorial boards of, for example, the journals New media & Society, Social Media & Society, Sexualities, Porn Studies, Dialogues on Digital Society, and International Journal of Cultural Studies.

María Palacios Cruz

María Palacios Cruz is a film curator, writer and educator. She is currently the director of Open City Documentary Festival (University College London). She was previously Deputy Director of LUX (London) and Director of the Courtisane Festival (Ghent). Between 2017 and 2021 she led the Film Curating course at Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola in San Sebastian (Spain).

Maria is a co-founder of The Visible Press and has edited anthologies of writings on and by British artists Lis Rhodes, Sandra Lahire and Alia Syed. Together with Erika Balsom, Beatrice Gibson and Ben Rivers, she programs The Machine That Kills Bad People, a bi-monthly film club at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London.

Jussi Parikka

Finnish cultural historian Jussi Parikka is Professor in Digital Aesthetics and Culture at Aarhus University, where he is the co-director of the Environmental Media and Aesthetics research programme. He also holds an affiliation with University of Southampton (Winchester School of Art). Jussi was elected as member of Academia Europaea in 2021 in the section Film, Media, and Visual Studies.

Jussi's work has focused on various aspects of digital culture, media theory, environmental humanities, and art-science-technology collaborations, both in writing and in his curatorial work such as the co-curated exhibitions Weather Engines (2022) and Climate Engines (2023-2024). His recent publications include the co-authored Lab Book (University of Minnesota Press, 2022), Operational Images (University of Minnesota Press, 2023), and the co-authored Living Surfaces: Images, Plants, and Environments of Media (MIT Press, 2024). Parikka’s books have been translated into twelve languages, including Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Czech, Turkish, French, Spanish, Estonian, and Portuguese.

Andrew Vallance

Andrew Vallance studied a Master’s and PhD at the Royal College of Art and currently is Associate Professor at Arts University Bournemouth (UK). His practice explores connections between memory and persona, place and presence, through video, installed, and curatorial work, most recently Contact: Parts1-2 (New Art Projects).

He also co-curates Underline, which would re-imagine urban space through artist intervention, and Contact, an artist-run organisation that has been presenting film, sonic and expanded events since 2013, including Assembly: A Survey of Recent British Artists’ Film and Video, 2008-13 (Tate Britain) and the publication and screening series Film Talks: 15 Conversations on Experimental Cinema.

Helen Wood

Helen Wood is Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at Aston University, Birmingham (UK). She is author of numerous books and articles on gender, class, television, popular culture and inequality, including Reacting to Reality Television (Routledge, 2012) and Audience (Routledge, 2024). She was long-serving editor of the European Journal of Cultural Studies, and is currently PI of the AHRC funded research project 'ReCARETV: Reality television, working practices and duties of care’ (2023-2026).

Helen is currently a member of the DCMS College of Experts and is interested in equalities in the creative industries. With the organisation Black Leaders in TV, she co-authored the 2025 report 'Black in Focus'.