activist media
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Read More: Meaning(less) Locker
I really liked Hurt Locker. Which is interesting, given my strong anti-war inclinations and its profoundly open-ended stance on this, our war in Iraq. The film plays this war as…
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Read More: “Women of Vision” on snagfilms
This is a three-part series on feminist media history from the late 80s. There’s also a book!
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Read More: On Iran Vέritέ
I’m a fan of Digital Poetics. I support his (and many bloggers) committed support and relay of people-made videos coming from Iran in the face of heightening censorship and oppression.…
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Read More: Dueling BanjosI get this eerie, bored feeling that internet scholars play but don’t listen. Myself included. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tqxzWdKKu8&hl=en&fs=1&] Where boosters see roses: See Howard Rheingold, Vernacular Video in Culture and Education. Snarks…
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Read More: On Watching Bad VideoI’ve spent a long day at an undisclosed location watching a load of bad video. As with all things tedious, cheap, people-made and yet somehow also pretentious, the hours enjoy…
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Read More: The Safety Dance
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orukqxeWmM0&color1=0xd6d6d6&color2=0xf0f0f0&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1] My blog reader (Vienna) has been over-stuffed with videos of culture jams. The song above is thanks to Open Culture. “Last Thursday, in London’s Trafalgar Square, a big crowd…
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Read More: Art and Social Change: The BOOK
Dear Will Bradley and Charles Esche, I chanced upon a strange booth at the book fair at the College Art Association Meetings a few weeks ago in LA. Two youngish…
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Read More: Attending to the 6th Anniversary of the War in IraqMarch 19 marks the 6th anniversary of the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq. As one small gesture against the ongoing war, I announce the launch of the website for…
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Read More: Avant Avant-Doc: Painleve goes to the Woman’s Building
I’m stuck in Peoria. Really. Trying to get home for my daughter’s birthday dinner (I failed. argh) after participating in an invigorating conference that attended to intersections of avant-garde and…
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Read More: Pacific Standard Time: Art of the Woman’s BuildingI just completed a grueling, intense, and edifying week of study with a team of feminist scholars who have been commissioned by Sue Mayberry and Meg Linton at Otis College…