media archive
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Read More: Mogul is De- and Re-Mobilized
I’ve worked with, written about, and been a fan of the work of Susan Mogul for quite awhile. A early practitioner of feminist video via her radical education at the…
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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: 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: Lady Professor Sings the Blues
My last post skirted the issue, saying I was “too busy” to perform my professorial labors properly: the hard work of “unpacking” lady Gaga. Ha. I’d actually taught the video…
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Read More: Ka-Kinda Busy[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haHXgFU7qNI&hl=en_US&fs=1&] Hello, hello baby. I’m kinda busy right now and don’t have the mental or maybe psychic energy to draw all the links between pop music, homo-erotic war-play, ritual violence,…
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Read More: The Views of the Feminist Archive
Please go to “Flow’s” Special Issue on The Archive to see a slightly modified selection (“The Views of the Feminist Archive”) from my longer essay “A Process Archive: The Grand…
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Read More: Banksy v Welles
I liked Exit Through the Gift Shop well enough. Its bad-boy, Euro-trash pranksters bite their thumbs at the art-world that feeds them by playfully manufacturing a hoax-star doppleganger forger from…
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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: The Failures of Fred’s Fans: For Youth Media SymposiumThis is some of my talk for “Sensory Communication: Expressive Culture and Youth Media” at UCSD, April, 2010. I will also present it to my CGU Cultural Studies Graduate course,…