Amir Vudka is assistant professor in Film, AI and Posthumanism at the department of Media Studies, University of Amsterdam. His recent research concern media pharmacologies, cyberdelic media, psychedelic film, haunted media, and AI techgnosis. Recent publications include: "Technology and addiction: What drugs can teach us about digital media" co-authored with Ido Hartogsohn(Transcultural Psychiatry, 60(4), 651–661, 2022) and "Cooking the Cosmic Soup: Vincent Moon's Altered States of Live Cinema" (Deleuze and Guattari Studies, 17(4), 2023). Beyond academia, Dr. Vudka is the artistic director of the Sounds of Silence Festival and the Altered States Festival in The Hague.