Dr Szilvia Ruszev
- 01202 965247
- sruszev@bournemouth.ac.uk
- Senior Lecturer in Post Production
- Weymouth House W209, Talbot Campus, Fern Barrow, Poole, BH12 5BB
Biography
Szilvia Ruszev is a film editor, media artist and researcher working across media.
Her research interest is situated in the fields of cinema and media studies, new materialism and digital studies intersecting various methodologies of a creative-critical praxis. Some of the recurring themes in her research are sensuous knowledge, expanded montage theories, and politics of post-cinema with a specific focus on the entanglement of networked technologies, capitalism and representation of social categories such as race, class and gender.
She is the Principal Investigator of the BRAID (Bridging Responsible AI Divides) funded ‘Shared Post-Human Imagination’ research project at Bournemouth University. The project investigates responsible AI in the context of media production. The research seeks to foster relationships among developers, users and policymakers to develop responsible AI practices.
As an editor, she has 20+ years of experience in various genres. She has expertise in immersive media, feature-length documentaries, feature films, TV documentaries (Arte and ZDF), corporate films, music videos, video art, and shorts... She has worked with a great variety of internationally acclaimed directors such as Peter Greenaway, Anders Østergaard, and János Szász. The projects have been awarded at numerous prestigious film festivals such as the Grand Prix at Karlovy Vary IFF, or the shortlist at the 86th Academy Awards in the foreign-language category.
As a media artist, she has experimented with the materiality of time-based media arching from super8 film to digital and expanded cinema in the form of site-specific installations, computational work in the form of cinematic visualizations and virtual reality essays, thereby constantly challenging the technological affordances and cultural situatedness of the
given medium. Her work has been exhibited internationally at Siggraph, Codame, Femmebit and Geneva International Film Festival.
Szilvia has a 10+ years experience in teaching media practice and theory at the Film University Babelsberg, Germany; the International Film School in Cologne, Germany; and the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, USA among others.
Born and raised in Hungary and Bulgaria, Szilvia studied Film Theory at the Eötvös Loránd University (Hungary) and Film Editing at the Film University Babelsberg (Germany). She holds PhD in Media Arts + Practice from the University of Southern California.
Topics of PhD supervision: editing theory and practice (experimental film, video art, independent film, quality TV) synthetic media (VR, AR, AI) in a socio-technological context, practice-based research (video essay, visualisations, digital humanities), representation in media.
moreExpertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person's work contributes towards the following SDGs:
Quality education
"Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all"
