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Interview Featuring Mirian Tavares Published in the Journal Film Matters

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The North American journal Film Matters has just published the interview “Media Literacy and the Avant-Garde: An Interview with Mirian Tavares”, conducted by Holley Anne Brabble, a final-year student at University of North Carolina Wilmington with interests in film criticism and directing.

The interview with the vice-coordinator of CIAC, Mirian Tavares, explores her extensive career in avant-garde cinema and contemporary aesthetics, with a particular focus on audiovisual productions from the 1920s to the 1990s. Tavares analyses the formal and thematic transformations of experimental cinema throughout the twentieth century and emphasizes the importance of breaking with traditional models as a driver of aesthetic innovation.

In addition, the Full Professor at the University of Algarve reflects on the role of media literacy in combating hate speech on digital platforms and gaming communities—a topic she has investigated within European projects and doctoral co-supervisions.

The interview also highlights the importance of academic supervision as a bilateral formative process and reveals the researcher’s current interest in rethinking the foundations of eighteenth-century aesthetics in light of contemporary digital artistic practices.

The interview is available open access here.

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