media archive
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Read More: Beaches of Agnes: Feminist Icons Show the WayAfter using Agnes Varda’s One Sings and One Doesn’t as a pun, or place-holder, in a recent post, how fun that Netflix delivered her recent autobiography, The Beaches of Agnes,…
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Read More: Marie Cartier, Ph.D.: Butch/Femme Bar Culture as Religion
I had the pleasure to participate in Marie Cartier’s oral defense of her Women’s Studies in Religion dissertation, “Baby you are my religion…The Emergence of ‘Theeology’ In Pre-Stonewall Butch Femme…
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Read More: Sheila de Bretteville: Viva Participation & Process!
I have been watching a lot of forty year old videos of designer, teacher, and public artist, Sheila de Bretteville, as part of my research for my Women’s Building video…
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Read More: Berlinale: Films Beget FilmsJust returned from 2010 Berlinale where The Owls premiered, rocked German lesbian’s L-Word soaked version of dyke-America, and sold a bunch of territories, too (thanks to The Collaborative! Note to…
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Read More: Pitzer Parent’s Weekend
I will be presenting two “lessons” from my work about and on YouTube to parents and students at Pitzer this weekend. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apZ2EBatr6Y&hl=en_US&fs=1&] I taught a course on and about YouTube,…
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Read More: Video DadaI drove out to UC Irvine with the kids to catch the Video Dada show (“dealing with intersections of video, art, and the internet.”) Martha Gever, the show’s curator, was…
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Read More: Animating Archives (W)rap Sheet
This was one of the best conferences I ever attended. The take home message for future conference organizers is hard to replicate: 1) carefully chosen speakers 2) given ample time…
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Read More: A Steady GrindVictoria Kerszi kindly sent along to me her recent documentary, A Steady Grind, a portrait of her grandmother Eloyse, a fiery fighter keeping her family’s junkyard afloat, despite tax debt,…
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Read More: Travels & Travails in Digital Media: From Blog 2 Page to Screen 2 Santa CruzI begin with a video (where I say among other things that I’ve been working for two years on a project about teaching, writing about, and publishing/presenting in the digital…
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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…