As a prelude to the 2022 in-person event, WSS will host a free online edition open to all June 4–6, 2021.

Baumbach’s initiative seeks to bring together an international group of scholars and artists for a two-day symposium investigating the relationship between the technological environment and processes of subjectivization in the 21st century. It is one of four projects to receive the grant. 

Plotnick is the president and co-founder of the New York City and Bahia-based nonprofit media arts organization, which aims to increase the presence of Brazilian cinema in the US and beyond.