digital media form
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Read More: Share Your DepthWe opened PerpiTube with Natalie Bookchin‘s brilliant piece about isolation within community and the public nature of private pain: [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzFhEdht5bo&w=560&h=349] Pitzer Galleries curator, Ciara Ennis, noted how the depth…
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Read More: Christian Marclay’s “The Clock”: Time CompressorDarling of the art world, Christian Marclay’s The Clock, like so many pieces of conceptual art, was for me as giving in the reading and anticipatory thinking about it as…
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Read More: YouTube in the GalleryCiara Ennis, the curator of Pitzer College Art Galleries, interviewed Pato Hebert and I about our upcoming YouTube art show, PerpiTube. One of her questions was about the differences between…
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Read More: PerpiTube: Repurposing Social Media Spaces
I am very pleased to announce the art show that I co-curated with Pato Hebert, PerpiTube: Repurposing Social Media Spaces. It will be held July 12 – September 6, 2011…
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Read More: Anxiety Is a State of Media/Mind: On SCMS and Feminist BloggingI’ve returned from SCMS and Louisiana (having seen two alligators in the wild on a hike and eaten crawfish and shrimp in innumerable yummy formats) and would like to briefly…
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Read More: CulturalStudies with Toby Miller
Toby Miller, Chair of Media and Cultural Studies at UC Riverside, chatted with me over tofu for his podcast, CULTURALSTUDIES. Since last summer, Toby has recorded meandering, lively and detailed…
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Read More: Learning from the Book Tour
I’ve been on the road with the video-book: CAA, NYU, University of Toronto and OCADU. I’ve been having fun, and learning a lot too during long and intense Q and…
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Read More: Digital Praxis/Filmic TextsMy colleague at the Institute for Multimedia Literacy at USC, Virgina Kuhn, has just published Filmic Texts and the Rise of the Fifth Estate which “maps the use of a…
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Read More: YOUTUBE IS BADLY BAKEDYouTube is baked; its video forms and conventions badly done. We’re stuck with corporate media-like “stunts, pranks, violence, gotchas, virtuosity, upsets, and transformations.” Sure, every video holds its own small…
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Read More: Distraction Span: call for contributionsMy dear friend and colleague Brian Goldfarb and I are co-editing a section of MediaCommons’ New Everyday on youth, media, and distraction. Our call begins: “We invite short, lively, multi-modal…