Hamidreza Nassiri
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Media Producer, Scholar, Educator, Technologist

I have a PhD in Communication Arts from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. My research interests are Digital Technologies, Civic Media, New Media Arts, Social Equality and Democracy, Community-Based Media Production, Arthouse & Independent Cinema, and Cognitive Studies of Moving Images.

ARTICLES

  • Nassiri, Hamidreza. “Tales from Disaster Capitalism: The Capitalist Transformation of Education by Exploiting the Pandemic Crisis.” SCMS+ (curated by the Society for Cinema and Media Studies for timely scholarly pieces), 2020.
    • Access the article here.
  • Nassiri, Hamidreza. “The Aesthetics of Long Take in Michael Haneke’s Cinema.” Avanca | Cinema Conference Proceedings (2013): 808 – 15.
    • Access the abstract here.

Conference Presentations & Talks:

  • 2025. “Automated Orientalism or Cross-Cultural Dialogue? Rethinking Computational Imaging and Generative AI Systems,” Cultural Politics of the Computational Image Workshop, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Global Mediations Lab.
  • 2025. “The Accessibility Paradox: Challenges of Visibility, Autonomy, and Power in Digital Archiving,” Digital Humanities Conference, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa.
  • 2024. “Imaginational World of Iranian Miniature: An Image Generator Based on Safavid-Era Iranian Miniatures,” MUTEK Forum & Festival, Montreal, Canada (In collaboration with Rowena Chodkowski, Concordia University).
  • 2024. “Urban Video Archive: Community Archiving for Brazilian Video Activism,” Radical Film Network Conference, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM) (Co-authored with Jacob Geuder, Princeton University).
  • 2022. “Justice in Context: Making Sense of ‘Context’ in Discourses Surrounding Viral Videos of Social Injustice,” Bearing Witness Conference, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (Co-authored with Rowena Chodkowski).
  • 2020. “Vulgar Co-Creation as a Radical Mode of Film and Media Production in Digital Age,” Global Fusion Conference (Virtual), Organized by Southern Illinois Universities Carbondale (SIUC) & Edwardsville (SIUE).
  • 2020. “The Fall of Dissidence: The Decline of Iranian Underground Cinema and Its Implications for the Digital Democratization of Media,” Communication Crossroads Conference, University of Wisconsin- Madison.
  • 2019. “Visible Pirates: The Proliferation of Independent Film Communities With Digital Piracy,” Film and History Conference, Madison, Wisconsin.
  • 2019. “Digitization of Film Exhibition: The Transition Phase in Middle-Income Nations And the Harms of Forced Technology Adoption,” Global Fusion Conference, University of Texas at Austin.
  • 2019. “The Other Side of Digital: Detrimental Effects of Digital Technologies on Global Democracy with A Focus on Iranian Cinema,” Media in Transition Conference, MIT University.
  • 2019. “By the Public, For the Public: Exhibition in the Digital Age with a Focus on the Ammar Movement in Iran,” SCMS Annual Conference – Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Seattle, Washington.
  • 2018. “How to ‘Really’ Be Digital: Performance in Digital Cinema With a Focus on Iranian Alternative Cinema,” Film and History Conference, Madison, Wisconsin.
  • 2018. “Musical Inspiration: The influence of Iranian Underground Music on Iranian Underground Cinema,” Music and the Moving Image (MaMI) Conference, New York, New York.
  • 2017. “Cross-dressing Iranian Style: An Exploration of Cross-dressing in Iranian Comedy Films from 1995 to the Present,” SCMS Annual Conference – Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Chicago, Illinois.
  • 2016. “Contemporary Iranian Cinema,”  Community Lecture Series, University of Wisconsin-Washington County.
  • 2016. “Color Makes a Difference: The Emotional and Narrative Influence of the Patterns of Color in No Country for Old Men,” SCSMI (Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image) Conference, Ithaca, New York.
  • 2015. “Shoot and Run: Modes of Production in Recent Iranian Underground Cinema,” SCMS Annual Conference – Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Montréal, Québec.