Matt Bennett on film and psychoanalysis, and on making and teaching media with AI: what images do to us, and what we now do with them.https://curiousspecs.github.io/blog/https://curiousspecs.github.io/blog/posts/a-room-of-your-own/https://curiousspecs.github.io/blog/posts/a-room-of-your-own/you must have a writing space of your own. or, preferably, several of them.Tue, 12 Aug 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://curiousspecs.github.io/blog/posts/a-story-about-psicanalise-psychoanalysis-in-latin-america/https://curiousspecs.github.io/blog/posts/a-story-about-psicanalise-psychoanalysis-in-latin-america/Notice for an APT screening and discussion of HBO Latin America's Psi, 22 January 2016, Cincinnati Psychoanalytic Institute.Wed, 23 Dec 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://curiousspecs.github.io/blog/posts/dada-lives-opening-reception-friday-april-29-5pm/https://curiousspecs.github.io/blog/posts/dada-lives-opening-reception-friday-april-29-5pm/Notice for Dada Lives!, an international centenary exhibition of Dada-inspired artists at the UCBA College Art Gallery, 29 April 2016.Sun, 17 Apr 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://curiousspecs.github.io/blog/posts/dagmar-herzog-to-present-on-aggression-psychoanalysis-as-moral-politics-in-post-nazi-germany-at-uc-on-feb-22-2018/https://curiousspecs.github.io/blog/posts/dagmar-herzog-to-present-on-aggression-psychoanalysis-as-moral-politics-in-post-nazi-germany-at-uc-on-feb-22-2018/Notice for Dagmar Herzog's UC lecture "On Aggression: Psychoanalysis as Moral Politics in Post-Nazi Germany", 22 February 2018.Sun, 04 Feb 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://curiousspecs.github.io/blog/posts/exploring-groundhog-day-screening-and-discussion/https://curiousspecs.github.io/blog/posts/exploring-groundhog-day-screening-and-discussion/Notice for a psychoanalytic screening and discussion of Groundhog Day at the Cincinnati Psychoanalytic Institute, 2 February 2018.Sat, 27 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://curiousspecs.github.io/blog/posts/fake-blood-questions-unofficial-music-video/https://curiousspecs.github.io/blog/posts/fake-blood-questions-unofficial-music-video/A fan music video I edited for Fake Blood's track "Questions".Mon, 20 Jun 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://curiousspecs.github.io/blog/posts/fertile-crescent/https://curiousspecs.github.io/blog/posts/fertile-crescent/don't try to force yourself into an unnatural writing schedule. it will work against you.Tue, 05 Aug 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://curiousspecs.github.io/blog/posts/hermias-desire/https://curiousspecs.github.io/blog/posts/hermias-desire/A reply to a paper on empathy in A Midsummer Night's Dream: what Hermia desires is a lost object, and Lysander is only its stand-in.Sun, 08 Nov 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://curiousspecs.github.io/blog/posts/idea-cistern/https://curiousspecs.github.io/blog/posts/idea-cistern/make capturing your ideas when they happen a habit.Thu, 07 Aug 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://curiousspecs.github.io/blog/posts/ideation-to-beat-outline-treatment/https://curiousspecs.github.io/blog/posts/ideation-to-beat-outline-treatment/how you develop ideas is unique to you.Sun, 17 Aug 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://curiousspecs.github.io/blog/posts/more-on-setting-your-writing/https://curiousspecs.github.io/blog/posts/more-on-setting-your-writing/as much detail as is necessary and relevant to the story.Thu, 14 Aug 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://curiousspecs.github.io/blog/posts/narrative-portraiture-opening-reception/https://curiousspecs.github.io/blog/posts/narrative-portraiture-opening-reception/Notice for Narrative Portraiture, a five-artist show at the UC Blue Ash College Art Gallery, February to March 2017.Wed, 08 Feb 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://curiousspecs.github.io/blog/posts/new-publication-in-psyart-journal/https://curiousspecs.github.io/blog/posts/new-publication-in-psyart-journal/My article in PsyArt, volume 20: Sookie Stackhouse's telepathy as a symptom and the vampire as the Real in HBO's True Blood.Sat, 09 Apr 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://curiousspecs.github.io/blog/posts/new-publication-in-the-international-journal-of-the-literary-humanities/https://curiousspecs.github.io/blog/posts/new-publication-in-the-international-journal-of-the-literary-humanities/My article on the elegiac photography of Hannah Maynard, the Victorian studio photographer, in The International Journal of the Literary Humanities 14.4.Mon, 16 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://curiousspecs.github.io/blog/posts/new-publication-in-the-international-journal-of-the-literary-humanities-2/https://curiousspecs.github.io/blog/posts/new-publication-in-the-international-journal-of-the-literary-humanities-2/My article "L'Art Noir: The Perfidy of Images in Film Noir", in The International Journal of the Literary Humanities 15.1.Wed, 15 Mar 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://curiousspecs.github.io/blog/posts/psi-episode-4-believing-in-the-afterlife/https://curiousspecs.github.io/blog/posts/psi-episode-4-believing-in-the-afterlife/On an episode of Psi about a man who believes his dead wife is reaching him, read through Freud's "Mourning and Melancholia".Sat, 30 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://curiousspecs.github.io/blog/posts/psychoanalysis-and-non-western-art/https://curiousspecs.github.io/blog/posts/psychoanalysis-and-non-western-art/Should psychoanalysis be applied to Japanese art? An open question after an APT round table, with Yoshitoshi's ghost of Okiku as the test case.Sat, 12 Dec 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://curiousspecs.github.io/blog/posts/psychoanalysts-as-novelists/https://curiousspecs.github.io/blog/posts/psychoanalysts-as-novelists/Notice for an APT evening on novels by psychoanalysts, Kristeva's Possessions and Ogden's The Parts Left Out, 19 January 2018.Mon, 15 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://curiousspecs.github.io/blog/posts/psychotopography-triptych-1/https://curiousspecs.github.io/blog/posts/psychotopography-triptych-1/My first still image experiment with Google's Deep Dream artificial neural network.Mon, 20 Jul 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://curiousspecs.github.io/blog/posts/purgatory-pa/https://curiousspecs.github.io/blog/posts/purgatory-pa/nothing is wasted. nothing.Fri, 22 Aug 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://curiousspecs.github.io/blog/posts/rich-man-venus-and-mars-mike-roos/https://curiousspecs.github.io/blog/posts/rich-man-venus-and-mars-mike-roos/Music and lyrics: Mike Roos. Video design and editing: Matt Bennett and Mike Roos.Fri, 17 Apr 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://curiousspecs.github.io/blog/posts/scooby-dooing-lacan/https://curiousspecs.github.io/blog/posts/scooby-dooing-lacan/Why Scooby-Doo never runs out of mysteries: the endless chase as a model of Lacanian desire, and what is really behind the mask.Sat, 14 Nov 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://curiousspecs.github.io/blog/posts/ship-of-fools-mike-roos/https://curiousspecs.github.io/blog/posts/ship-of-fools-mike-roos/Music and lyrics: Mike Roos. Video design and editing: Matt Bennett and Mike Roos.Fri, 17 Apr 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://curiousspecs.github.io/blog/posts/sookie-and-symptom-vampire-and-void-irruption-of-the-real-in-true-blood/https://curiousspecs.github.io/blog/posts/sookie-and-symptom-vampire-and-void-irruption-of-the-real-in-true-blood/My 21-minute conference talk: Sookie Stackhouse's telepathy as a symptom, and the vampire as the Real breaking through, in HBO's True Blood.Thu, 26 Nov 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://curiousspecs.github.io/blog/posts/teed-your-love-fake-blood-remix/https://curiousspecs.github.io/blog/posts/teed-your-love-fake-blood-remix/My contribution to a collaborative video project Betsy Fischer and I have been engaging in, 312: a Trilogy of Unique Détournements Doubles.Sat, 18 Apr 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://curiousspecs.github.io/blog/posts/the-irruption-of-the-real-in-the-cws-the-flash/https://curiousspecs.github.io/blog/posts/the-irruption-of-the-real-in-the-cws-the-flash/The Flash's impossible speed as the Real returning from the trauma of his mother's murder, read through the show's many father figures.Thu, 17 Dec 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://curiousspecs.github.io/blog/posts/the-uncanny/https://curiousspecs.github.io/blog/posts/the-uncanny/After an APT screening of Purana Mandir: why the uncanny lingers when a scare does not, read through Lacan, with The Babadook as the counter-example.Sat, 11 Jul 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://curiousspecs.github.io/blog/posts/the-uncanny-cont/https://curiousspecs.github.io/blog/posts/the-uncanny-cont/Part two: in It Follows the uncanny lies less in the monster than in Paul's desire, an encounter with something that resists being put into words.Sat, 18 Jul 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://curiousspecs.github.io/blog/posts/third-annual-ucba-faculty-staff-art-exhibition/https://curiousspecs.github.io/blog/posts/third-annual-ucba-faculty-staff-art-exhibition/Notice for the third annual UCBA Faculty & Staff Art Exhibition, 20 March to 21 April 2017.Thu, 23 Mar 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://curiousspecs.github.io/blog/posts/too-much-visibility/https://curiousspecs.github.io/blog/posts/too-much-visibility/Claude's new Reflect feature sees me and my research, partially.Sun, 11 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://curiousspecs.github.io/blog/posts/uc-european-film-festival-2018/https://curiousspecs.github.io/blog/posts/uc-european-film-festival-2018/Notice for the 2018 UC European Film Festival: ten films, 20 January to 8 March, at the Mini Microcinema and other Cincinnati venues.Sat, 20 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://curiousspecs.github.io/blog/posts/where-the-wild-things-are/https://curiousspecs.github.io/blog/posts/where-the-wild-things-are/Notice for an APT screening of Spike Jonze's Where the Wild Things Are, with a discussion of grief, 24 June 2016.Sun, 19 Jun 2016 00:00:00 GMT