The Fifty-Fifty exhibition presents three works from the archive of the FAMU Centre for Audiovisual Studies, each illustrating a different approach to audiovisual creation.

Burmese artist and filmmaker Khin Khin Su explores autoethnography as a method of working with one’s own experience, Turkish animator, filmmaker and designer Âkile Nazlı Kaya presents an analysis of contemporary ecological discourse, and Slovak artist Andrej Sýkora, who currently heads FAMU’s youngest department, Game Design, offers critical self-reflection within the realm of mediated nostalgia.

CAS was founded in 2004 out of the theoretical section of FAMU and gradually developed into a department in its own right. While most FAMU departments focus on traditional film disciplines, such as cinematography, editing, screenwriting, or documentary film, CAS moves beyond traditional cinema. Its students work with the art of the moving image as a broad field situated at the intersection of film, fine art, and new media art, encompassing conceptual, documentary, and socially critical projects.

The department’s activity is structured around current themes in media theory, such as posthumanism, platform capitalism, media archaeology, media ecology, queer theory, new romanticism, identity politics, postcolonialism, or the archival turn.

All three works presented here are thus set within a broader theoretical framework that has long been developing at the department, representing early approaches that laid the groundwork for the department's current focus on artistic research. The exhibition is part of a series of presentations marking the department’s 20th anniversary.

Curator: Jennifer Helia DeFelice