Jenny Gunn
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Building a populace
I would only add on to Alessandra's excellent summation that Nkiru also breathes a new popularity into these at times esoteric or avant-garde sources by combining them in an accessible music video format and distributing them on digital streaming pla ... -
I love this idea of the sonic
I love this idea of the sonic establishing shot and musical mapping. Your example from Tutu Medley makes me think of the traditional overture. Would you say that the intro effectively combines the visual aesthetics of the four vignettes as well as it does ... -
Nice: love your recap Chip!
Nice: love your recap Chip! ... -
A memory object in network form
Jim, I love this phrasing to describe what you call the music film and how it centers the capabilities of digital distribution: this is very accurate in describing Nkiru's works and their intentions. ... -
Dada mime
Michele, your work here makes me think of Hal Foster's analysis of the Dada mime as a form of immanent critique where the form of the satire and its satirized object are indistinguishable: such figures so often risk illegibility, but Foster also argu ... -
These are all great points,
These are all great points, Michele and it's interesting to think of YouTube and video art as the Intenet equivalent of the street and the street artist. Of course, the appropriative appetite of art as an institution still persists today, perhaps as ... -
I like the idea that the
I like the idea that the female spirit that Maureen encounters is a manifestation of her repressed affect (grief, frustration) especially given the spewing ectoplasm! I also think there is a social commentary (ie the ignorance of history and perhaps of Mi ... -
Corporate Cannibal
Hi Joe, To your last comment and while reading your post I couldn't help but think of Grace Jones' Corporate Cannibal (Nick Hooker 2008). Steven Shaviro has argued that Corporate Cannibal affectively maps the mutability of the digital and its ex ... -
I reall enjoyed your post,
I reall enjoyed your post, Andrea. I like that through the week we are threading together the suppression of affect to the suppression of labor in digital self-mediation. I haven't seen Cam yet but it is on my immediate to-do-list! It sounds like it ... -
Celebrity
Thanks Joe. Andrea and Dewey's posts really pick up the thread re: the uncontainable self-image. I hadn't thought of the idea of catfishing even though that is a very spot-on comparison. One thing I've been thinking more about lately with t ...