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3d scan
26 Sunday Mar 2023
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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, UkweliL 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.
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
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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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.
Conducttr Conference, London, October 2015
18 Sunday Oct 2015
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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.