Blockchain Papers

Jia Wang, Arianna Alpini

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Milica Simić, Katarina Sikman, Marija Vrljanac, Vukašin Despotović · 5 authors

There is a lot of misunderstanding about what non-fungible tokens represent. They are usually associated with some kind of ownership or certification, but it is much more than that. This document aims to inform the readers about different use cases of NFT in the real and virtual world, with applications in the fashion industry. The paper aims to propose a methodology for creating NFT fashion projects. According to the proposed methodology, modelling of the ecosystem for the fashion industry based on NFT is presented. An example of creating an NFT collection, minting and realizing a transaction using a smart contract was also developed. The PyTeal programming language was used to develop the smart contract, and the Algorand platform and market were used to display transactions and minting.

Rendy Pandita Bastari, Idhar Resmadi, Wahyu Lukito

The development of crypto has resulted in NFT (non-fungible token) derivation. Artists began to explore the NFT market with its potential. NFT artists have different ways to get engagement and establish themselves in the world of NFT, whether in terms of artwork substance or in the social field. This study aims to deconstruct the actors behind NFT artists to elucidate the visual style and the social engagement of artists in the world of NFT. The method used in this study is a qualitative approach with data validation from interviews and NFT artwork samples. The data was subsequently processed using actor-network theory (ANT) to analyze and trace the actors behind the NFT artists. Two Indonesian artists, namely Angga Tantama and Mufti Prianka, became the study cases in this research. The result of this study shows heterogeneous actors who support the artists in their work's substance and social engagement. In the case of Mufti Prianka, NFTs influenced him to explore the possibilities of creating digital artworks, whereas for Angga, NFT platforms became one of his well-established channels to publish artworks. Based on their networks, the two Indonesian artists studied have different approaches and motivations in creating and engaging with NFTs.Proses kreatif dua seniman NFT Indonesia dalam perspektif teori jaringan aktorPerkembangan kripto telah menghasilkan derivasi NFT (non-fungible token). Para seniman mulai menjajaki pasar NFT dengan potensinya. Seniman NFT memiliki cara yang berbeda untuk mendapatkan keterlibatan dan memantapkan diri di dunia NFT baik dari segi substansi karya seni maupun dalam bidang sosial. Gaya visual dalam kategori ini bervariasi dengan seniman yang berbeda yang merupakan pencipta di belakangnya. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mendekonstruksi aktor di balik seniman NFT untuk menjelaskan gaya visual dan keterlibatan sosial seorang seniman di dunia NFT. Metode yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah pendekatan kualitatif dengan validasi data dari wawancara dan sampel karya seni NFT. Data tersebut selanjutnya diolah menggunakan teori jaringan aktor (ANT) untuk menganalisis dan menelusuri aktor di balik seniman NFT. Dua seniman Indonesia menjadi studi kasus dalam penelitian ini, yaitu Angga Tantama dan Mufti Prianka. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan aktor heterogen yang mendukung seniman dalam substansi karya dan keterlibatan sosialnya. Dalam kasus Mufti Prianka, NFT memengaruhinya untuk mengeksplorasi kemungkinan dalam menciptakan karya seni digital, sedangkan pada Angga, platform NFT menjadi salah satu salurannya yang mapan untuk mempublikasikan karya seni. Berdasarkan jaringan mereka, dua seniman Indonesia yang diteliti memiliki pendekatan dan motivasi yang berbeda dalam menciptakan dan terlibat dengan NFT.

Jiaming Wu

Abstract Facing the information era of rapid development of the Internet, university watercolor education is in urgent need of finding a new development direction. Through the emerging education model of Internet+education, this paper regards knowledge sharing as the transaction behavior of buyers and sellers in the knowledge market and establishes a smart contract model based on the knowledge supply and demand functions. A blockchain knowledge-sharing-based watercolor painting classroom model is proposed to break the traditional teaching role and apply it to the teaching and practical analysis of watercolor painting in universities. With the Internet+ education model, the teaching diversity increased by 26.90%, and the teaching interactivity increased by 6.12% compared with the original. Nearly 60% of the students thought that the teaching effect of the Internet+ education mode was improved. In the teaching practice, the students’ watercolor painting works received 7.53% more A grades in color usage compared to the original. For the evaluation of spatial level, the students who received A grades increased by 18.76% compared to the original. The Internet+ education model provides a new path for the development of university watercolor painting education, which helps cultivate watercolor painting artistic talents with both inclusive artistic thoughts and unique personal artistic characteristics.

Taotao Xu, Musdi Shanat

The popularity of Non-fungible Tokens is reshaping the Internet, digital assets and content. Many cultural sectors worldwide have switched and proposed using NFT technology to enhance the liquidity of financialised art assets. Numerous companies are trying to take advantage of the rapid growth of the NFT markets to increase their competitiveness. Although digital artwork provides numerous technical advantages, few design practices are available for Luoshan Shadow’s NFT virtual creative products. This study aimed to investigate the factors influencing the digital design of the Luoshan shadow by NFT technology. We conducted a thematic analysis of the comments and suggestions given by designers and non-geneticists. Data of 185 designers, consumers, and non-geneticists indicated the main concerning themes; i) copyright and security issues; ii) innovation of art form and content; iii) new presentation, and iv) benefits from Non-fungible Tokens technology. These findings may provide experience for Luoshan shadow art to start the layout of digital creative design in the context of the much-needed NFT market and to organically combine its digital derivatives with physical derivatives to achieve joint development.

Wangming Hu, Hyunsuk Han, Gulong Wang, Tao Peng · 5 authors

A museum is the destination of the crystallization of history and culture, and a museum is the center for the development of heritage culture. The display and exhibition of historical relics can promote the harmonious development of society. However, there are many defects in traditional museums. The collection in the museum is scattered. The exhibition needs a specific time and place to open, and the exhibition mode is boring and lacks entertainment, which seriously limits the museum’s dissemination of history and culture. In order to improve the public’s number of visits, museums need to keep pace with the times. Using augmented reality technology can digitize the information in the museum and integrate it with the user’s real environment, which solves the limitation of time and space for most users to visit the museum, and greatly increases the entertainment of users to visit the museum. In addition, the application of blockchain technology in digital museums can effectively ensure the security of museum cultural relics data and quickly restore the lost cultural relics information. The digital museum can help tourists realize cross-region viewing. Through multimedia software and hardware, it can greatly stimulate tourists’ interest and attract tourists of different ages to visit. This article uses digital technology to present physical museums in a digital form on the network, but it is difficult for digital museums to conduct targeted analysis on tourists of different ages. This article will analyze the attraction ability of digital museums to tourists of different ages, thereby attracting tourists of different ages to visit. This paper compared traditional museums with digital museums based on augmented reality technology and blockchain technology. The experimental results showed that from the perspective of young people, the average interactivity of traditional museums and digital museums was 47.20% and 78.20%, respectively; from the perspective of the elderly, the average interactivity of traditional museums and digital museums was 59.04% and 70.36%, respectively. Therefore, the digital museum built by using augmented reality technology and blockchain technology can effectively improve the interaction with users. The digital museum can improve the interaction with tourists of different ages, attract a large number of tourists for virtual visits, and improve the cultural transmission and economic development of the digital museum.

Liselore Tissen

3D printing’s rapid technological development is starting to impact the art field because, for the first time, it has become possible to exactly reproduce and reconstruct artworks without any loss of their physical features. Yet, a coherent overview of how 3D printing is used within the art field while paying attention to ethical considerations does not exist. This study will provide an overview of the current developments of 3D printing in the art world, its use, and the direction it is moving toward. Within this study, the technologies that enable, influence, and will continue to affect the 3D reproduction of artworks, namely technologies necessary to capture an artwork’s materials on a chemical and physical level, artificial intelligence (AI), 3D printing technology itself, and the rise of the non-fungible token (NFT) are analyzed to be able to understand what 3D printing implies for our changing perception of art in the future.

Idhar Resmadi, Rendy Pandita Bastari, Lingga Agung, Luqman Rusdan Nugraha

Visual artists used NFT (non-fungible tokens) to market artwork and build virtualcommunity networks. NFTs are special certificates or licenses for digitally sold items.In this context, the presence of NFT creators has given rise to a virtual communityinvolving many digital media activities. The phenomenon then offers a variety of newtechnology-based relationships (blockchain, metaverse, NFT, Twitter, Twitter Spaces,Discord, and Clubhouse) and human actors (artists, digital artists, and designers), whichgive rise to specific characteristics to interact with each other or market their artworkin a virtual community. This research aims to discuss the interaction process in the NFT virtual community to understand the NFT ecosystem based on digital media. The actor- network theory is used to understand the network relations between human and non-human actors interacting through various digital platforms. The results of this study showed that the NFT virtual community could not be separated from the presence ofhuman and non-human actors.

A. N. M. Sajedul Alam, Junaid Bin Kibria, Al Hasib Mahamud, Arnob Kumar Dey · 7 authors

In the realm of digital art and collectibles, NFTs are sweeping the board. Because of the massive sales to a new crypto audience, the livelihoods of digital artists are being transformed. It is no surprise that celebs are jumping on the bandwagon. It is a fact that NFTs can be used in multiple ways, including digital artwork such as animation, character design, digital painting, collection of selfies or vlogs, and many more digital entities. As a result, they may be used to signify the possession of any specific object, whether it be digital or physical. NFTs are digital tokens that may be used to indicate ownership of one of a-kind goods. For example, I can buy a shoe or T shirt from any store, and then if the store provides me the same 3D model of that T-Shirt or shoe of the exact same design and color, it would be more connected with my feelings. They enable us to tokenize items such as artwork, valuables, and even real estate. NFTs can only be owned by one person at a time, and they are protected by the Ethereum blockchain no one can alter the ownership record or create a new NFT. The word non-fungible can be used to describe items like your furniture, a song file, or your computer. It is impossible to substitute these goods with anything else because they each have their own distinct characteristics. The goal was to find all the existing implementations of Non-fungible Tokens in different fields of recent technology, so that an overall overview of future implementations of NFT can be found and how it can be used to enrich user experiences.

Aaira Banda

This research article examines Non Fungible Tokens and its application in the domain of art, fashion and design. It also covers the background and origin of NFTs, how they came into existence and their relevance in todays time along with a critical analysis on whether non fungible tokens are the future of art or not. It portrays the advantages, disadvantages of NFTs. <strong>Methodology: </strong>The methodology used for this article is secondary data collection based on literature survey and review and the research conducted is analytical. <strong>Objective: </strong>The objective behind this research article is how it works and what it means for the creative industry. I am also keen to know how it is a new way of digitising art and design.

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Ruth Ardianti, Ely Andra Widharta

This research is descriptive research to find out the symptoms or effects of aesthetics and public perception of the popular artworks of the NFT (non-fungible token) Marketplace.The NFT marketplace has begun to gain popularity among Indonesians since the virality of Ghozali who managed to sell his artwork in the form of selfie photos on the NFT Opensea Marketplace, earning billions of rupiah in profits at the end of 2021.Of empirical interest is the potential reasons why some artworks on the NFT Marketplace are prized highly compared to other works.There are two aspects of the study discussed in this study, namely aesthetics and public perception.This study aims to descriptively examine aesthetics and public perceptions of popular artworks at the NFT Opensea Marketplace; examine and investigate the things that affect the popularity of artwork on the NFT Opensea Marketplace from the aesthetic aspect and public perception.Findings reveal that the aesthetic perception of the public, seeing the popularity of NFT artwork is influenced by several factors, including: (1) people's perspectives on what makes something "unique", (2) influenced by the medium of introduction, (3) the popularity of the work is influenced by its aesthetic value, and (4) the popularity of NFT artworks is determined by the context.

Xiaoyan Li

In traditional blockchain transactions,privacy protection is to encrypt users' sensitive information under the anonymity mechanism,and a trusted third party is involved to verify the transaction plaintext information.However,once the third party is attacked,the users' transaction information will be divulged.Furthermore,there is no truly trusted third party in a rational state.To better solve the privacy problems in blockchain transactions,and in view of issues of confidentiality verification of the tra-ders' transaction amount under the non-anonymous state,the PVC digital commitment protocol is adopted to hide the transaction amount in the commitment,and a publicly verifiable zero-knowledge proof scheme is established,so that verifiers are able to confidentially verify the legitimacy of the transaction without obtaining sensitive information from the traders.At the same time,the elliptic curve homomorphic encryption feature is used to encrypt the amount,thereby solving the problem of updating the traders' ciphertext ledger.The correctness of the proposed privacy protection scheme is verified and analyzed,and the results shows that compared with the existing schemes,the proposed scheme has the advantages of relatively low computational complexity,strong security and high efficiency.

Liu Jun, Tiejun Zhu

Blockchain technology can realize the openness, transparency, non tampering, non forgery and traceability of all data information in the system without the endorsement of a third party, which can make up for the old and new problems in the field of cultural creative design and education. This paper first analyzes the technical principles of blockchain and the deficiencies of online teaching and cross regional teaching in cultural and creative design education, and then applies blockchain technology in learning resource management, learning process tracking, learning evaluation, learning path shaping, teaching management and assessment. It is concluded that blockchain technology can effectively optimize the teaching structure and teaching management of cultural and creative design education, and promote the design education field to adapt to the contemporary development. Finally, it puts forward the future prospects.

Ping Wang, Shuhan Qiao

To extend a broad application of blockchain technology to the fields of online English education, this paper aims to improve a virtual platform for English teaching and learning of landscape design majors, mainly composed of presentation layer, business layer, and data layer by analyzing the performance of the proposed algorithm, and comparing with other existing algorithms. In the platform, through the service layer, the communication between the presentation layer and the data layer is completed, and the data in the data layer is transferred to the presentation layer. The user first establishes a connection with the server in the presentation layer. Using the transmitted data information, the server assigns an identifier to the user and establishes a role model. Users can download the teaching courseware through the server and simulate the real learning scene by controlling the interaction of XAML files. The results show that the virtual teaching platform makes the interconnection of users (students and teachers), machines, and things at any time and any place; realizes information self-verification, transmission, deep unsupervised learning, and management; and gives students a more realistic visual experience in high security.

Laura S. Scherling

The digital art landscape has rapidly expanded since the passing of Visual Rights Act of 1990 (Baron, 1996; CAA, 2013). With the recent advent of blockchain technologies, derived from Nakamoto’s Bitcoin currency, new possibilities have emerged for the way artistic materials can be exchanged and how communications can be conducted. This research examines emerging applications for decentralized blockchain technologies in community-based art projects and digital art startups¬. The work of three organizations, ConsenSys, Ethereum, and Monegraph, is explored. Through the use of blockchain technologies, digital artists can create a traceable and tradable record of their work, while generating a critical discourse around the reproducibility of media. In this research, I investigate the potential uses of digital art in the blockchain and its educational value in visual arts education.

Hazal Değirmen

The technologies of today's world are constantly updating themselves and adding innovations.The concept of Metaverse, which is seen as the biggest digital transformation concept of recent years, represents a brand new and unpredictable universe where multiple virtual universes merge.The graphic design field is also seen as a field that can renew itself with the Metaverse era in line with its professional skills.When used effectively, this virtual universe is seen as a brand new door of opportunity for graphic designers who can make three-dimensional (3D) designs, design user interfaces and have sufficient technical skills and equipment.For graphic artists who can produce digital works for the Metaverse, NFT [Non Fungible Token (qualified intellectual property)] allows them to earn income while protecting their works.However, in this new virtual universe community, which has not yet settled into a certain systematization, it remains unclear what the course of events will be for graphic designers.

B. Balamurugan, T. Poongodi, M. R. Manu, S. Karthikeyan · 5 authors

The moving image archive of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) includes a copy of the film The Double Day (1975), cataloged in the series Moving Images Relating to International Development Programs and Activities, 1979–1991, a collection of more than eight hundred titles “created to provide information on assistance programs supported by the Agency for International Development (AID).”1 Yet, The Double Day does not, in fact, directly depict or engage with any specific development or aid initiative. Instead, the film—directed by US-based Brazilian filmmaker Helena Solberg as part of the International Women’s Film Project collective and described as “the first Latin American feminist documentary”—examines the gendered dynamics of paid and unpaid labor through the testimonies of women from Argentina, Bolivia, Venezuela, and Mexico.2 Its presence in the USAID archive is likely a consequence of its funding history, having received support from the Inter-American Foundation, a USAID-affiliated entity; the development agencies of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden; the United Nations Development Program; and US philanthropist Calvin Cafritz.3These transnational funding structures not only enabled the film’s production but also determined its archival destination, which renders legible its place within the history of international development.4 The Double Day’s institutional trajectory reflects the shifting configurations of aid, gender, and media during a historic moment when women were being repositioned at the center of what Arturo Escobar has described as development’s “regimes of visuality.”5 Especially relevant to The Double Day’s production and exhibition was the international institutional framework of Women in Development (WID). Emerging in the early 1970s and culminating in United Nations’ proclamation of 1975 as International Women’s Year, WID emphasized women’s participation in the global economy as both an index and mechanism of development. Indeed, The Double Day premiered at the World Conference of the International Women’s Year, held in Mexico City.6 Within this context, the film forms part of a broader trajectory of media use by international organizations that intensified during the 1970s—as best exemplified by Media Habitat, a collection of 236 documentary films commissioned by the United Nations to represent urban and rural development initiatives for the 1976 Habitat Conference on Human Settlements in Vancouver. As a policy-shaping initiative, Media Habitat primarily featured films from the Global South intended not only to illustrate but also to help codify standardized audiovisual markers of “underdevelopment” that determined access to the emerging global economic order and to international aid.7Framed in relation to these international institutions and their operations, The Double Day could similarly be considered “development media”—exemplifying the type of nonfiction media produced and distributed outside of the commercial film circuits whose aspects and subcategories have been variously described in scholarship as nontheatrical, useful, sponsored, institutional, industrial, educational, or nonprofessional/amateur.8 Scholars working in this area have emphasized the institutional contexts of such media’s production and exhibition infrastructures as shaping its instrumentalized effects. From a feminist perspective, such an approach is crucial to grappling with the broader question of how “gender impacts [these works’] shape, content, and trajectories.”9 Yet we also argue that, taken in isolation, the institutional and infrastructural contexts are insufficient to account for the complex relationship between media and development, potentially not only limiting our understanding of the reach and impact of development but also distorting our interpretive conclusions. For example, to categorize The Double Day as “development media” is to overlook the film’s place within Solberg’s directorial oeuvre, as well as within the histories of both transnational women’s filmmaking and radical Latin American documentary cinema to which it simultaneously belongs. Such exclusive framing is especially limiting given that women globally were disproportionately engaged in nonfiction production throughout the twentieth century—sometimes by political choice but more often due to structural exclusions from fiction filmmaking. Even in nonfiction historiography, however, institutional media has remained particularly marginal, reinforcing hierarchies that separate such works from the aesthetic and authorial frameworks through which film history has been constructed.10 This marginalization not only tends to erase women’s contributions but also presumes a “weak” or derivative authorship, rendering these films unworthy of the interpretive attention needed to apprehend their aesthetic and political complexity.11 The same dynamic is likely to structure assumptions about “development media” as well.Categorizing The Double Day exclusively within this category would further prompt us to assume top-down institutional analyses that have been characteristic of both institutional media methodologies and the scholarship on development at large. This, in turn, would risk obscuring this film’s radical Marxist approach to women’s labor as well as its concrete contribution to activism and its attendant grassroot structures. In Mexico City, The Double Day became a catalyst for feminist solidarity in practice when one of the film’s protagonists, Bolivian activist and trade unionist Domitila Barrios de Chungara, was invited to participate in the Tribune of Non-Governmental Organizations held alongside the official UN conference.12 There, Barrios de Chungara challenged Western feminist priorities by reframing the debate around labor, class, and imperialism, helping to articulate a shared Third World feminist agenda that significantly departed from the developmentalist vision of the United Nations and USAID.13 Seen through the lens of activist media, The Double Day helped forge transnational solidarity networks by enabling information exchange across the diverse voices that shaped its making—from the women featured in the film to the activists who circulated it—revealing a considerably more dynamic interplay between institutional and grassroots or contingent media practices.Moreover, the film’s Latin American context—reflected in Solberg’s formation in Brazil as the only woman in Cinema Novo, its focus on women from across the region, and its premiere and key reception in Mexico City—requires grappling with the regional specificities of the very notion of development in its multiple iterations.14 Far from being an epistemological and political framework imposed solely by the Global North, both the practices of development and the theoretical foundations of developmentalism (understood as a broad and polysemic set of discourses) were shaped through the active participation of Latin American economists.15 Within this iteration, underdevelopment, as a constitutive notion of developmentalism, became central to a distinctly critical strand, which by the late 1960s became known as the dependency theory.16 This same approach is reflected in some of the best-known Latin American radical film manifestos of the time, arising precisely from the same milieus to which Solberg belonged.17These various considerations of the film’s history illustrate the methodological challenges confronting feminist scholars seeking to assess the impact of development on media projects, theories, and practices. To disregard the developmentalist context of such works by emphasizing their political aesthetics and affects risks reproducing a romanticized narrative of heroic resistance (albeit from a feminist perspective). Yet to engage exclusively with their institutional and material infrastructures risks naturalizing developmentalism’s political and epistemological foundations at the expense of the goals and beliefs of the many women who participated in these projects. The contradictions and ambivalences that animate such histories call for feminist frameworks capable of holding both institutional complicity and radical possibility in view.This challenge resonates with ongoing debates about the politics of the archive and what Allyson Field has termed “the practice of informed speculation.”18 As she reminds us, feminist, queer, and decolonial methodologies have long taught us to “press at the limits” of the archive to “inoculate our scholarship against our evidence’s afflictions.”19 The concern that the evidence we draw on in our analysis reproduces the very structures and blind spots of the dominant ideology and therefore shapes and delimits our interpretation becomes particularly urgent when engaging the developmentalist media corpus. Informed speculation offers an alternative by inviting the experimental, creative, and speculative rewriting of history, mobilizing the archive “in a project that runs counter to the original purpose, or the imperative to preserve, or the conditions that led to erasure.”20 Yet, as Field cautions, such speculative gestures must remain grounded in a deep and “intimate familiarity with the archive” that we are working with and against. Building on this imperative, we suggest that the developmentalist archive, in particular, demands expansion and critical reconsideration in ways that unsettle the very disciplinary frameworks through which it has been studied as well as the larger institutional contexts for such knowledge production.Our focus on The Double Day in the opening of this introduction thus foregrounds the entanglements of institutional and grassroots forces, local and international contexts, structural and interpersonal relations, and creative and economic factors that have shaped not only this film but the broader ecosystem of development media projects—and their preservation—over time. Addressing such a constellation involves transgressing methodologically entrenched divisions between political economy and aesthetics, between material infrastructures and affective regimes; reckoning with divergent periodizations across film history and world economics; and situating these within the local specificities of women’s movements and international institutional programs. It also demands attentiveness to the coexistence of multiple, and sometimes competing, understandings of development—each historically, geographically, and ideologically situated.We imagine this special issue as an opening toward a critical dialogue, not only about how such an approach might be enacted in practice but also about the far-reaching ways development paradigms have shaped both our objects of study and the contours of the field itself. The decision to center institutionally sponsored films across all the essays in this issue is deliberate and enables us to highlight institutional critique as a vital methodological imperative within our analytical framework. Created within the frameworks of international organizations, state agencies, or NGOs, these films’ histories make legible the institutional logics that underwrite their production. Yet our critique does not stop at these specific entities. Rather, we argue for a broader interrogation of the political conditions and institutional infrastructures that shape media and knowledge production more generally. This includes contemporary corporations embedded in the digital platform economy, from streaming services to the rapid expansion of AI. Equally critical is a reflexive examination of academia itself, where departments of economics, political science, and centers for development have played a formative role in producing and legitimizing developmentalist theories and policy frameworks. While the humanities and arts have at times offered critical alternatives, they have also frequently mirrored and reinforced many of the same developmentalist assumptions. A feminist analysis of the nexus between development and media must therefore unsettle not only dominant archives but also the institutional and disciplinary foundations of our own scholarly practices.As scholars, we share the complex position of navigating the same tensions between institutional complicity and emancipatory aspiration as many of the media-makers whose work we study. Mirroring our subjects is also the transnational, collective mode of this special issue’s own production as it emerges from an ongoing informal working group we have sustained over several years. While relying on institutional and disciplinary affordances—such as university funding for conferences or access to academic publishing platforms—we have been working toward creating a community that exceeds, and often resists, the prevailing logics of our academic institutions. Our aim has been to create a space for shared inquiry and mutual support that pushes back against disciplinary siloing and technocratic neoliberal assessment modes of both labor and knowledge production—and this certainly extends to our experience collaborating with the journal editors throughout the publication process. Our goal has been to examine both the persistence and variability of developmentalism, understood as what Gustavo Esteva calls a “powerful but fragile semantic constellation,” as a conceptual formation that has historically inspired, legitimized, and mobilized media projects across Asia, Africa, and Latin America.21 And gendered biopolitics, from population control to gender mainstreaming, have remained integral to development policies and media practices, recurring across formats from institutional newsreels to film festivals.We share the conviction that, far beyond the history of nonfiction institutional media, development (as both a broad ideological project and a network of material and institutional practices) and developmentalism (as a set of discourses and theoretical models associated with development) have exerted a far-reaching influence on film and media cultures at large. As such, they must be treated as a major force in shaping global film and media systems and also the many ongoing assumptions behind their critical discourses. The discipline of communication studies was founded on modernization theory governed by Cold War goals of dissemination of Western liberal democracy around the world, while “an area studies framework allowed compartmentalizing Western and non-Western outcomes of technologies that were always claimed to be universal.”22 Despite critique from postcolonial and critical race studies, many of these frameworks have remained foundational for media theory.23 In historical scholarship, as we increasingly move beyond “modernity” as a dominant conceptual anchor, engaging with practices and discourses of development opens more precise analytical pathways. 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