Szilvia.Ruszev

Dr Szilvia Ruszev is a film editor, media artist, and practice-based researcher working across various media. Her transdisciplinary research, situated in the fields of cinema and media studies and new materialism, focuses on the entanglement of networked technologies, capitalism, and the representation of social categories such as race, class, and gender. She currently holds academic positions at Bournemouth University and University College London.

At +RAIN 2025, she will present the keynote Shared-Posthuman Imagination: Responsible AI in Media Production, offering insights from an interdisciplinary and international research project funded by BRAID and AHRC. Drawing on four workshops (screenwriting, image creation, editing, and music creation), the study explores collaboration, creativity, and bias in media production using generative AI, highlighting new possibilities, risks, and ethical considerations shaping human-AI collaborative futures.