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  • PUBLICATIONS
    • A Window Seat to History: Erykah Badu’s Dealey Plaza Remix
    • The Cinema of Uncertainty and The Opacity of Information From Louis Feuillade’s Crime Serials to Film Noir
    • “Towards Networked Feminist Scholarship: Mindful Media, Participatory Learning, and Distributed Authorship in the Digital Economy”
    • Virginia Kuhn and Vicki Callahan, “Nomadic Archives: Remix and the Drift to Praxis
    • “The Evidence and Uncertainty of Silent Films in HISTOIRE(S) DU CINEMA” in THE CINEMA ALONE (EDITED BY MICHAEL WITT AND JAMES WILLIAMS)
    • Liu’s Ethics of the Database, book review in POSTMODERN CULTURE
    • Review of Mark Garrett Cooper’s UNIVERSAL WOMEN: FILMMAKING AND INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE IN EARLY HOLLYWOOD
    • Review of Phil Powrie and Éric Rebillard’s PIERRE BATCHEFF AND STARDOM IN 1920S CINEMA
    • Conference Report: “The Conversation, the Future of Cinema, Games, and Online Video: New Tools, New Distribution, New Rules”
    • “Screening Musidora: Inscribing Indeterminacy in Film History
    • “The Innovators: Detailing the Impossible” (Louis Feuillade)
  • INTERVIEWS
    • “Remix and Media Literacy: Interview with Elisa Kreisinger
    • Interview with Sasha Costanza-Chock (NAMAC)
    • Suzanne Leonard on “Celebrity Culture”
    • Joan Myers on “The Search for Virginia Rappe in Film History”
    • Conversation on New (and Old Media) with Helen De Michiel
  • RECLAIMING THE ARCHIVE
    • Diane Waldman’s Review in JUMP CUT of Reclaiming the Archive
    • Sofia Bull’s review in SCREEN of RECLAIMING THE ARCHIVE
  • Zones of Anxiety: Movement, Musidora, and the Crime Serials of Louis Feuillade
    • Sue Browers review in Journal of Film and Video
    • Heather Heckman’s Review in THE VELVET LIGHT TRAP
    • Back Book Cover for ZONES OF ANXIETYi
  • Mélange
    • Shepard Fairey visits New Media for Social Change Class, Fall 2013
    • Buddhism and Film — a Conversation with Danny Fisher, William Whittington, and Vicki Callahan (Patheos)
  • Media
  • Curriculum Vitae December 2021

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Afterimage Interview with Lance Weiler

19 Saturday Mar 2022

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Last spring I was fortunate to have my USC graduate seminar, Digital Pedagogies, receive an invitation to a virtual showing of Lance Weiler’s documentary project, Where There’s Smoke, https://smokeproject.com It was amazing experience that brought together Zoom, a Miro whiteboard, film, photography, and live performance. Weiler’s project began as an installation and premiered at Tribeca in April 2019 but with covid shutdown, he reimagined for an online context. Last summer, I interviewed Lance about the work, its past, present, and future permutations and his thoughts on what he has called “generative documentary.” You can read the interview in the latest Afterimage, March 2022, which you can find here: https://online.ucpress.edu/afterimage/article-abstract/49/1/14/120356/Where-There-s-Smoke-and-the-Generative?redirectedFrom=fulltext

Below is a photograph from Lance Weiler’s show, Where There’s Smoke

Ukweli: Searching for Healing Truth

19 Saturday Mar 2022

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I have been working on a documentary project on the South Carolina lowcountry for the last few years, which looks at issues of corrective histories and restorative justice. I was honored to be asked to contribute to a collection of essays and poems on history, truth, and healing in the Charleston area to be published in the book, Ukweli Searching for A Healing Truth, edited by Horace Mungin and Herb Frazier. The collection draws from a diverse collection of artists, activists, historians, community leaders in exploration of the topic. It is an important conversation that has insights throughout our country. For more on the book, please see this excellent essay from the editor, Herb Frazier, https://charlestoncitypaper.com/ukweli-horace-mungin-herb-frazier/

You can purchase the book here:

https://evepostbooks.com/product/ukweli-searching-for-healing-truth/

UFVA Conference presentation

05 Wednesday Aug 2020

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The UFVA 2020 conference went all online this year, and the event featured a diverse array of speakers and events. I was honored to be asked to present a forum on online teaching of group/collaborative work. The audience was lively with a great conversation going in the chat and lots of questions. My slideshow from the session is posted below.

Vicki Callahan UFVA Collaborative Online Teaching Tips and Tools from Vicki Callahan

SCMS conference 2018, The Collaborative Video Essay

13 Tuesday Mar 2018

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This year at the SCMS conference, I will be participating in the workshop on Saturday, March 17,  “In the Mix: The Collaborative Video Essay in Theory and Praxis,” with Christina Lane, Daniel Clarkson Fisher, Liz Cambron, Nina Bradley, and Nicole Richter.  Our workshop will share our remixes over the last couple of months of a shared pool of clips dealing with the issue of “Post-Truth.”   We are doing a couple of rounds, remixing from the collaborative pool of clips and then remixing our team’s remixed videos.  Here’s a sample of some from our first round:

Christina Lane’s “Post-Truth”

Post-truth 3_02_Lane from Christina Lane on Vimeo.

Daniel Clarkson Fisher’s “The Twilight Zone”

The Outer Limits (SCMS Round 1) from Daniel Clarkson Fisher on Vimeo.

and my remix, “Willkommnen”

Willkommen from DJ Zoe Trop on Vimeo.

For more remixes and info about the workshop, see here: http://scalar.usc.edu/works/scms_2018/index

 

Special issue of THE CINE-FILES #11, The Video Essay: Cinematic Writing

03 Tuesday Jan 2017

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Virginia Kuhn and I have co-edited a special issue of the journal, The Ciné-Files,  “The Video Essay: Cinematic Writing” (#11).  The issue began as part of an ongoing conversation on digital scholarship with faculty and students at UCC during my Fulbright stay in Cork, Ireland and then grew into an international collaboration of scholars on both sides of the Atlantic.  Many thanks to all the collaborators and to Tracy Cox-Stanton for this opportunity to share this dialogue and experimentation in cinematic writing. 

Slow Scholarship Event at SCMS 2016

10 Tuesday May 2016

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In the last post, I added Laura Serna and my provocation for the SCMS event on Slow Scholarship. Like last year’s epic collaborative event on Participatory Pedagogy, we put up a site this year for Slow Scholarship

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SCMS 2016, Slow Scholarship Event

04 Friday Mar 2016

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Future Texts: Subversive Performance and Feminist Bodies

13 Friday Nov 2015

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Afrofuturism, digital media, feminist, music video, video games

I am delighted to announce the publication of a collection on contemporary feminist media edited with my USC colleague, Virginia Kuhn. The collection, Future Texts: Subversive Performance and Feminist Bodies, looks at work from music videos, video games, contemporary cinema, television, and online web series with attention to issues of race, gender, and identity.  Parlor Press has been a delight to work with, and they have been incredibly supportive of work that takes in a diverse range of issues, methods, and venues.

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Conducttr Conference, London, October 2015

18 Sunday Oct 2015

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Conducttr, Digital Media Research and Pedagogy, Fulbright 2015-2016, London

It’s great being based on the other side of the pond this autumn with the Fulbright award as I am able to attend the excellent conference organized by Robert Pratten and his great crew at Conducttr.  The year’s conference had a focus on Transmedia for Change: Connected Learning and Persistent Engagement.  I co-presented with my USC colleague, Michael Bodie, on Teaching for Transformative Change, and we used two case studies from courses that we teach in the Media Arts + Practice program.  I will share Bodie’s part of the presentation (or link) once he has had the opportunity to post.

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Fulbright Scholar in Ireland, part 1: Workshop on Digital Media Research and Pedagogy

02 Friday Oct 2015

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Digital Media Research and Pedagogy, Fulbright 2015-2016, University College Cork

I am spending the autumn semester as a Fulbright Scholar in University College Cork in Cork, Ireland.  It has been a hectic first month with a presentation for the Performance, Politics, and Protest conference held on September 5, 2015 (presentation slides forthcoming!) and two day-long workshops on September 18 and October 2 on Digital Media Research and Pedagogy (with “hands on” segment on the audio-visual essay).  I will have more to say as I catch my breath — UCC and Cork has been a welcoming and stimulating environment — but I wanted to post the slideshows from today’s workshop on: Digital Media: Principles, Tools, Strategies and Video Editing.  Two of the three slideshows begin with a zen garden to put us in relaxed mode for the conversation and practice to follow.

UCC Workshop: Digital Media Principles, Tool, and Strategies from Vicki Callahan

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UCC Video Editing Workshop from Vicki Callahan
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