AIDS
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Read More: the positive (virtual) audience (2): What would an HIV Doula Do?Yesterday I attended two zoom meetings. The first was a Town Hall on Title VI and Academic Freedom. It was organized by the Faculty Council at Brooklyn College, CUNY, where…
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Read More: Audience as community (2): World AIDS Day@Brooklyn CollegeI had the pleasure this year, once again, of presenting AIDS media to commemorate Day With(out) Art at Brooklyn College, where I work. Sponsored by the LGBTQ+ Resource Center, the…
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Read More: The audience as community: Visual AIDSLast night I had the pleasure of seeing the premier of Visual AIDS’ annual Day With(out) Art video program at the Whitney. Red Reminds Me … is playing this week…
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Read More: they are lost to vision altogetherLast night, I saw an ingenious and moving double bill at BAM: Tom Kalin’s they are lost to vision altogether (1989) and Gregg Araki’s Totally Fucked Up (1993), one pairing…
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Read More: VHS Archives: Fall 2018 round upIn the 2018-2019 academic year, twelve committed participants are joining in sustained conversation, tool building, and programming, while attending ethically and thoughtfully to the buzzing interplay of feelings, intimate community,…
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Read More: Caring.Sharing: ethics and concepts for saving and using VHS ArchivesThe VHS Archives Working Group at the CUNY GC (2018-2019) is engaging in sustained conversations as we are tool-building a lightweight app that can sit on top of a small…
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Read More: My VHS Archives: confessions from the field of queer feminist media praxisCommitted media praxis is a doing as much as it is a knowing. Queerness is a manner of being as much as it is a politics, theory, or set of…
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Read More: My Introduction to ITP Core 2, CUNY
Today I begin my first class at CUNY, ITP Core 2: Interactive Technology and the University: Theory, Design, and Practice, co-taught with Luke Waltzer, Director, Teaching and Learning Center, CUNY…
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Read More: Stacked on Her Office Shelf: Stewardship and AIDS ArchivesThis is my third conversation with Ted Kerr. We begin to consider what might be needed so that many inheritances of AIDS could be salvaged, shepherded, and mothered into a…
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Read More: AIDS Reruns: Becoming ‘Normal’?
Ted Kerr (formally of Visual AIDS) and I continue our conversation about recent AIDS media on the Indiewire blog, /Bent. In our discussion about The Normal Heart and other recent…