activist media
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Read More: AIDS Video and CensorshipMy article, “AIDS Video: To Dream and Dance with the Censor” has been recently published at Jump Cut. I had been asked to speak about the history of AIDS video…
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Read More: For Neda: Verite in Context[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F48SinuEHIk&hl=en_US&fs=1&] While I’d be the first to admit that For Neda is not a particularly “good” documentary, in that it does not deliver many (or any) of the complex and…
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Read More: Contractual Mayhem: On the Absurdities of Moving from Paper to Digital in Academic PublishingI am currently negotiating my contract with MIT Press to “publish” my “video-book” about YouTube this Fall. The enlightening, confusing, crazy, friendly, and productive conversations I am having with my…
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Read More: Documenting the Documenters: More from the AIDS Activist ArchiveI had the opportunity to view screeners of two new AIDS documentaries: Sex in an Epidemic (Jean Carlomusto) and ACT UP New York Highlights: I (Jim Hubbard, Sarah Schulman, and…
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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: Queer You(th) Tube Talk on YouTube on YouTube
Unfortunately, I can not make the Digital Media and Learning Conference occurring at UCSD February 18-20 because I’ll be in Berlin for the premier of THE OWLS. I have organized…
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Read More: Corpus of CorpusI was on the opening panel for “The Corpus of Corpus: A Symposium on AIDS, Arts, and (Counter) Public Health” held at UC Riverside, Jan 22-23. Jaime Cortez, event co-organizer…
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Read More: Berlin Bound!I am really happy to announce that our film, THE OWLS, will be premiering in Berlin‘s Panorama section: its home for foreign and cutting edge art films. I could imagine…
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Read More: I make nouveau art video on YouTube: Mommy’s Marriage
I have been criticizing YouTube for a few years now. Easy enough to do given its perplexing gaps in capability—all the things it won’t let you do: find things, surround…
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Read More: Dear Gabe: My Old Video Art
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