media archive
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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: Some Troubles with Internet TimeIn Spring 2019, I re-booted my course, Feminist Online Spaces. This time I taught it with Masters students in Liberal Studies (MALS) at the CUNY Graduate Center and it was…
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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: The opposite of archiving: Zoe Leonard, Fae Richards, and the Watermelon WomanSometimes things align, but mostly, really, it’s because they are already connected. Such is the case with the showing of Zoe Leonard’s compelling new body of work, “In the Wake,”…
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Read More: Small Screen Evidence by Ordinary Citizens: New (and old) DocumentsIn this, my third blog post of the summer about what to make of and do with the radical evidentiary images by ordinary people that can sometimes go viral and…
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Read More: Ev-Ent-Anglement 3: One current shape for Internet feminism and its many discontentsI recently performed the third iteration of my experimental, affective scholarly talk cum “event” at Console-ing Passions 2015: “Ev-ent-anglement 3: Dublin.” The project has a nearly-completed year-long shelf-life as it…
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Read More: “As Fixed as a Bottle Entangled in a Mess of Sea Vegetable”
… I’m trying to steer clear of rabbit holes these days in order to get a book done, but this [ev-ent-anglement] seems different somehow. Like the time spent reading, learning,…