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Dr. Marek Jancovic is an Assistant Professor of Media Studies at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and coordinator of the MA program Arts & Culture: Comparative Arts and Media Studies. His research focuses on media materiality, film preservation, environmental impacts of media, and format studies. He leads the CINEAGRI project, funded by NWO Veni, exploring agricultural materials in early celluloid film production. Notable publications include A Media Epigraphy of Video Compression (2023) and The Future of Memory (2025). He holds a PhD from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (2020) and an MSc from the University of Amsterdam (2015).
Research interests span media archaeology, animal-media interactions, queer/disability studies, and infrastructure politics. Awards include the 2023 NWO Veni Grant and a best dissertation award (2021). He teaches courses on media materialities, transmedia storytelling, and film preservation. Current PhD supervision includes Linxi Zhang’s project on Chinese cyber-nationalism.
Award-winning documentary producer, board member of the Environmental Humanities Center Amsterdam, and active in global academic networks (necs, SCMS). Recent activities include lectures on celluloid supply chains and a visiting fellowship at Meiji Gakuin University (2025).
