Practices of Projection : Histories and Technologies

In Practices of Projection: Histories and Technologies, volume editors Gabriel Menotti and Virginia Crisp address the cultural and technological significance of projection. Throughout the volume, chapters reiterate that projection cannot, and must not, be reduced to its cinematic functions alone.

Virginia Crisp is Lecturer in Cultural and Creative Industries at King's College, London. She is the author of Pirates and Professionals: Film Distribution in the Digital Age (2015, Palgrave) and co-editor (with Gabriel Menotti Gonring) of Besides the Screen: Moving Images through Distribution, Promotion and Curation (2015, Palgrave).

Gabriel Menotti is Assistant Professor in Moving Images Curatorial Studies at Queen's University Film & Media Department. He works as a curator in the fields of cinema and digital/new media. Menotti holds a PhD in Media & Communications from Goldsmiths, University of London, and another from the Catholic University of São Paulo. He has presented projects in events such as ISEA, the São Paulo Art Biennial, Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid and Transmediale, as well as written and organized a number of publications about image and technology. Menotti is the author of "Movie Circuits: Curatorial Approaches to Cinema Technology" (Amsterdam University Press, 2019). In 2017-18, he was a Fulbright Visiting Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee working on the topic of digital replicas and cultural heritage. Together with Virginia Crisp, he coordinates the Besides the Screen research network.