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Read More: The Views of the Feminist Archive
Please go to “Flow’s” Special Issue on The Archive to see a slightly modified selection (“The Views of the Feminist Archive”) from my longer essay “A Process Archive: The Grand…
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Read More: YouTube at 5: What’s it to you?
You probably watch it more than you did (15 mins/day according to LA Times.) You notice there are more ads, both before videos, and scattered around the page (yet they…
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Read More: Babies are People!
“Mommies are people. People with children. When mommies were little they used to be kids, like some of you, but then they grew, and now mommies are women: women with…
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Read More: Banksy v Welles
I liked Exit Through the Gift Shop well enough. Its bad-boy, Euro-trash pranksters bite their thumbs at the art-world that feeds them by playfully manufacturing a hoax-star doppleganger forger from…
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Read More: The Losers: My Student’s a Winner (cross your fingers)I had the thrilling adventure of getting to view the red-carpet premier of my long-ago student, Sylvain White‘s new campy genre-pic, The Losers at Graumann’s Chinese Theatre. Sylvain’s movie is…
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Read More: Last Address: Buildings are BricksIra Sachs generously traded his new short film, Last Address, with me for my Video Remains. Both are elegies for lost friends, artists, and activists of the 1980s. I had…
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Read More: The Failures of Fred’s Fans: For Youth Media SymposiumThis is some of my talk for “Sensory Communication: Expressive Culture and Youth Media” at UCSD, April, 2010. I will also present it to my CGU Cultural Studies Graduate course,…
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Read More: The Possessed: Academics Going to the TradesWhile I mostly blog on media culture, this is my second effort in a matter of days that reviews a book. If anything, I’ve probably always been more of a…
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Read More: Praxis at Carnegie Mellon: Yet Another Blogged “Talk”
This is most of my talk for an upcoming Symposium, New Media: Theory, Practice, Power for Carnegie Mellon University’s Center for the Arts and Society focusing on creating fuller interaction…
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Read More: Reality Hunger: Shields’ Formal Run DownYou could say I “read” David Shield’s Reality Hunger over the weekend, but as my first nod to the worthy successes (and ballsy failures) of his argument-through-form, I actually skimmed…