PRESENTATIONS OF ONGOING RESEARCH
UPCOMING TALKS
Invited lecture: Eszter Polonyi “Faceless Machines: Early Recognition Media and Entangled Bodies,” guest at “relatifs” Lecture series, Department of art History and Art Theory (Abteilung Kunstgeschichte und Kunsttheorie) at Kunstuniversitätm (University of Arts Linz in collaboration with Kepler Salon, University of Linz, Austria (January 2024).
PAST TALKS AND WORKSHOPS
Workshop: Martina Caruso, Eszter Polonyi “Citizenship and Its Legacies: Identity Documentation, Bureaucratisation and Rights,” Institute of Historical Research, Institute of Historical Research, University of London, UK, COST Action (September 2023).
Conference: Eszter Polonyi “Expedition Content (2020)—Tactics of Opacity and the Racialized Body” Roundtable on Expedition Content (2020) by Veronika Kusumaryati and Ernst Karel (Henning Engelke, Ilisa Barbash, Irina Leimbacher, Veronika Kusumaryati, Eszter Polonyi), FilmForum/Visible Evidence XXIX, University of Udine, Udine, Italy (September 2023)
Workshop: Martina Caruso, Eszter Polonyi “An Archaeology of Photographic Identification” on panel dedicated to the History of Identity Verification and Forgery, Maynooth University, Maynooth, Ireland, COST Action (June 2023)
Conference: Eszter Polonyi “An Archaeology of Photographic Identification” on panel dedicated to Photographic Identity and Deep Fakes (Abe Geil, Ori Levin, Kris Fallon) SCMS, Denver, CO, USA (April 2023)
Conference: Eszter Polonyi “The ‘Physiognomic Fallacy:’ An Archaeology of the Photographic Identity Document” at the annual conference of the Network for European Cinema Studies (NECS), Bucharest, RO (June 2022)
Invited lecture: Eszter Polonyi “Early Identity Recognition (ASR): Bodies of Noise at the Bell Laboratories,” invited presenter at Acoustic Space workshop held by the Institute for Media Science at Marburg University (Nov 2022)
Conference: Eszter Polonyi “Mobility Media: an Archaeology of Identity Photography through Science, Art and Visual Culture” at the And Yet It Moves: Cinema, Media and Mobility, FilmForum conference, XXVIII International Film and Media Conference, University of Udine (Nov 2021)
Invited lecture: Eszter Polonyi “Mobility Media: an Archaeology of Identity Photography through Science, Art and Visual Culture” at the Documenting Democracy series of the Institute of Advanced Study, University of Rijeka (June 2022)
Workshop: Eszter Polonyi “Identity Photography” European Research Council (ERC) mentoring workshop (Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen, Polish Academy of Sciences, Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education) (June-July 2021)
PUBLICATIONS
Eszter Polonyi “Mobility Media: an Archaeology of Identity Photography through Science, Art and Visual Culture,” in Yet it Moves! on Cinema, Media and Mobility, Eds. Simone Schneider, Andrea Mariani, Mimesis International (in press).