Marek Jancovic

Personal profile

Personal information

I am Assistant Professor of Media Studies at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. My current research is centered around the materialities of the moving image, film preservation practices and format studies. Together with Axel Volmar and Alexandra Schneider, I am the co-editor of Format Matters: Standards, Practices, and Politics in Media Cultures.

In collaboration with Jimi Jones (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), my latest book project investigates the standardization of digital video formats across film heritage institutions in West Africa, Europe and North America, focusing especially on the social and political factors affecting the use, choice and adoption of particular formats.

My doctoral project Misinscriptions: A Media Epigraphy of Video Compression was an interdisciplinary archaeology of video compression techniques exploring historical interrelationships between mathematics, medicine and media. It was conducted at the University of Mainz, Germany.

Apart from this, I am interested in the interstices between queer studies, disability studies and STS, and I spend an unreasonable amount of my free time thinking about historical phenomenology.

Ancillary activities

I am a member of SCMS, necs and GfM. I was a guest researcher at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (2018-2019) and associate member of the German Research Foundation training group Configurations of Film (2017-2020). As a fiction and documentary film producer, my award-winning films have been shown at festivals worldwide. I have also produced work commissioned by art institutions such as the Fotomuseum Wintherthur in Switzerland, Frascati Theater in the Netherlands, and others.

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Academic qualification

Film Studies, PhD, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

Media Studies (research), Master, University of Amsterdam

User created Keywords

media history
STS
media archaeology
history of technology
history of science
disability studies
animal studies
queer studies
cultural techniques

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Research Output

16 Paper
6 Article
5 Chapter
1 Book
2 More
- 1 Digital or Visual Products
- 1 PhD Thesis - Research external, graduation external

Format Matters: Standards, Practices, and Politics in Media Cultures

Jancovic, M. (ed.), Volmar, A. (ed.) & Schneider, A. (ed.), 2020, Lüneburg: Meson Press.

Research output: Book / Report › Book › Academic › peer-review

Open Access

Filming Animals: Portable Cameras in Animal Media Practice

Jancovic, M., 2020, (Accepted/In press) Versatile Camcorders: Looking at the GoPro-Movement. Gerling, W. & Krautkrämer, F. (eds.). Berlin: Kulturverlag Kadmos

Research output: Chapter in Book / Report / Conference proceeding › Chapter › Academic › peer-review

Fold, Format, Fault: On Reformatting and Loss

Jancovic, M., Feb 2020, Format Matters: Standards, Practices, and Politics in Media Cultures. Jancovic, M., Volmar, A. & Schneider, A. (eds.). Lüneburg: Meson Press, p. 192-218 27 p.

Research output: Chapter in Book / Report / Conference proceeding › Chapter › Academic › peer-review

Open Access

Format Matters: An Introduction to Format Studies

Volmar, A., Jancovic, M. & Schneider, A., 2020, Format Matters: Standards, Practices, and Politics in Media Cultures. Jancovic, M., Volmar, A. & Schneider, A. (eds.). Lüneburg: Meson Press, p. 7-26 20 p.

Research output: Chapter in Book / Report / Conference proceeding › Chapter › Academic

Open Access