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Read More: Berlin Bound!I am really happy to announce that our film, THE OWLS, will be premiering in Berlin‘s Panorama section: its home for foreign and cutting edge art films. I could imagine…
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Read More: Killer Lampshade: Happy Holidays
I teach feminist horror, women’s pornography, queer cinema, and media archives. I write on YouTube and make bad video. But regarding this, I am left merry and speechless. Enjoy! [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOBCMoDGGZU&hl=en&fs=1&]
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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: 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…
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Read More: Laura Wexler, Chinese Photo, and Forced ForgettingLaura Wexler, the Chair of Women’s Studies at Yale and also an esteemed professor of American Studies and photo history, presented an amazing paper on Chinese photography this weekend at…
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Read More: Everything off YouTube is Video ArtI recently refuted Virgina Heffernan’s euphoric claim about YouTube’s aesthetic gold (everything is…). Even more recently I speculated that: “(Traditional) video art carries assumptions about method, form, and audience. The…
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Read More: Ad-Hoc Piece-Meal Video-Art“Towards the end of the middle decade of the twentieth century, a perplexing and complex form emerged in Europe and the United States. Variously called video art, artists’ video, experimental…
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Read More: Video Art on YouTube: The Name is Equivocal
” VIDEO ART. The name is equivocal. A good name. It leaves open all the questions and asks them anyway. Is this an art form, a new genre? An anthology…
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Read More: Ulrike Ottinger: What’s Left to be SeenI had the great privilege of attending a Critical Symposium, sponsored by Boston University and my friend and colleague, Roy Grundmann, on the amazing Ulrike Ottinger last week. She was…