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Last day to submit!
Our current call for content for vol. 5! Submissions due 2/28
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A visionary teacher, mentor & leader, #ANUExpert Katerina Teaiwa has been named the 2021 Australian University Teacher of the Year for her outstanding contribution to Pacific studies in Australia & globally.
Congratulations @KTeaiwa. 👏🥳
📖 anu.edu.au/news/all-news/vis… #AAUT
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Big up @taoleighgoffe + Tatiana Esh on the publication of | I’m New Here: Black and Indigenous Media Ecologies: Curatorial Statement | escholarship.org/uc/item/5r7…… | + to Melia Delsol & Dóra Papp for their incredible contribution to the exhibition | darklaboratory.com/virtualex……
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We are delighted to share our new CFP for IVC #35, “Accessing/Assessing Fashion,” for which we invite contributors to engage with a range of ethical concerns in the history of fashion.
ivc.lib.rochester.edu/call-f…
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Dark Lab 👩🏽🔬👩🏽🔬is proud to present *I’M NEW HERE: Black and Indigenous Media Ecologies* in the new issue of @RefractJournal which just went live!
7 artists on Black and Indigenous Ecologies from the US, Caribbean, + South America 📷
Read open-access here: escholarship.org/uc/item/5r7…
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Cfp for @RefractJournal “We welcome contributions from graduate students, artists, faculty, and independent scholars across the humanities, including but not limited to visual studies, art history, anthropology, literature, and history.”
Deadline 28 Feb 2022
Check out the CFP for the new issue of @RefractJournal, an open-access visual studies journal, on the theme “Sensing Place.” refractjournal.com/current-c…
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Check out the CFP for the new issue of @RefractJournal, an open-access visual studies journal, on the theme “Sensing Place.” refractjournal.com/current-c…
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Lauren Berlant, a profoundly influential American scholar and cultural critic known for their rigorous and playful explorations of intimacy, citizenship, and affect, has died at age sixty-three. artforum.com/news/lauren-ber…
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👏👏🏆Haoran Chang, MFA grad student, @danmUCSC @ucsc, is featured in @LookoutSCruz! His VR project “Fair Sai Re Pi (Fire Therapy)” is a finalist in one of British Academy of Film & Television Arts @BAFTA newest student-award categories for immersive film. #digitalart
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Solidarity forever. A #CopsOffCampus Statement in Support of Palestinian Liberation.
We mean it when we say "Cops Off Campus, Cops Off Earth." Alt-text: bit.ly/3bzZMLz
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Upcoming: YOU ARE NOT A LOAN, a conversation with fmakers Astra Taylor @astradisastra & Erick Stoll, joined by F+DM doctoral student Yulia Gilich @fictionalizer & LALS Prof @jessicaktaft | Fri May 7
ucsc.zoom.us/meeting/registe…
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Visual & Media Cultures Colloquium: Amy Lonetree on "Studio Portraits and Tourist Images: Writing a History of the Ho-Chunk Nation Through the Visual Archive, 1879–1960" | Wed Apr 21, 4-6pm arts.ucsc.edu/news_events/vi…
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Listen to Tim Young, our friend and #SolitaryGarden collaborator who is currently on San Quentin’s Death Row, speaking about what abolition means to him.
#VisualizingAbolition #BarringFreedom #ImagineaLandscapeWithoutPrisons #FreeTimYoung
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Haoran Chang presents Fair Sai Re Pi LLC, an immersive VR experience that reimagines a pyramid scheme company that appropriated Chinese Traditional Medicine, in the Spring 2021 DANM MFA exhibition. See all works 4/12-5/7/21 at danmmfa.ucsc.edu
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CFP: @RefractJournal's upcoming issue on Document/ary will explore "entanglements between the document and the documentary as sources of information and forms of visual culture."
We've extended the deadline of our CFC until March 15! Details on our next volume 'document/ary' are at the link below: escholarship.org/uc/refract/…
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Another fantastic digital art history piece from the Times. Truly hope to see a ton more work from art historians move to a format like this in the coming years. (Happy to talk to ppl about the tech side of this if you are ever interested!) nytimes.com/interactive/2021…
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TODAY! Tues, 1/2, 4-5:30pm, Surveillance and Cinematics
w/ American Artist, Simone Browne and Ruha Benjamin - Join us for the next conversation for Visualizing Abolition focusing on technology, surveillance, and contemporary art, FREE, online event: bit.ly/3cnUdkC @ucsc
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amazing to see this op-ed from melina abdullah, angela davis, & robin kelley get center-stage in the sunday paper of the state capital.
for abolitionists organizing against the counterinsurgency of task forces, the arguments here might be very useful.
