AIDS
-
Read More: AIDS Feelings
My talk at Concordia stirred a lot of feelings in the community: an intended effect of my “mixed reality experience” produced through the experiences of real bodies, watching digital materials,…
-
Read More: HIV/AIDS ConcordiaI’m in Montreal, getting ready to give a talk “Remembering AIDS Online: Networking, Viruses, Virality, and Arteries” as part of Concordia University’s eighteen year old, multi-disciplinary, year-long undergraduate course and…
-
Read More: Form is Feeling: Remembering AIDSIn the past few days, I’ve seen two powerful film screenings featuring works that historicize AIDS in the 1980s: We Were Here (“the first documentary to take a deep and…
-
Read More: i wanted every day to last forever: irwin swirnoff & Kevin J. EversonI had the rare pleasure of seeing experimental film two nights in a row this week, especially gratifying given the paltry mainstream fare I’ve been viewing lately to feed this…
-
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…
-
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…
-
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…
-
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…
-
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…
-
Read More: AIDS Activist Shorts and the Emergence of Queer CinemaLast Friday night, I attended a screening of nearly twenty-year old AIDS activist videos (the scenes of my youth; the research topic of my juvenalia) which were part of the…