praxis
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Read More: #53, tame and disarm dangerous algorithmsGeert Lovink shared this hardtruth with me from his yet to be published paper, “Overcoming the Disillusioned Internet—Discussing Principles of Meme Design.” “There is a crisis of ‘participatory culture.’ Let’s…
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Read More: #42: phatic communication eases interactions but lessens informationIn “Snap Makes a Bet on the Cultural Supremacy of the Camera,” Farhad Manjoo writes: “The growing importance of cameras — of images rather than just text — is altering…
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Read More: #16: practice strategic contemplation
Practicing strategic contemplation—what Rosylyn Rhee explains as having “to be comfortable being uncomfortable [because] so much of making documentary films is embracing the unknown”—is one of six “principles of feminist…
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Read More: #8: FAKE! by DOVEMAN+TOM KALIN+CRAIG PAULL[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8bveD6n1_Y&w=560&h=315] See More: #100hardtruths-#fakenews: a primer on digital media literacy
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Read More: My Introduction to ITP Core 2, CUNY
Today I begin my first class at CUNY, ITP Core 2: Interactive Technology and the University: Theory, Design, and Practice, co-taught with Luke Waltzer, Director, Teaching and Learning Center, CUNY…
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Read More: Activism in the Digital Age: USC Class Visit and ActionI will be a guest speaker at Tara McPherson’s USC graduate course, Activism in the Digital Age, today at 11. I had organized a loose conversation/presentation for the class visit…
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Read More: Radical Queer Culture in “Mainstream Places”: Taylor Mac, Transparent and the Watermelon WomanI’ll begin with a shout-out, a dream-out—not a review but a reverie—of Taylor Mac’s “A Twenty-Four Hour History of Popular Music,” an unforgettable opus, atheistic tent revival, and hootenanny that…
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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: affect bleeds in feminist social networks
I gave a “talk” at the CUNY Grad Center: one of many attempts to document, process, and share this year-plus long project, a multi-temporal, many-sited, process-rich, collaborative investigation of learning,…
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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…