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.

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

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. 

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