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Uses of the Erotic: Sexuality and Difference in Lesbian Film and Video
This paper is an attempt to explore the ways in which the erotic, as a category and a practice of...
Erotics of the Image
Why would it be important, right now, to defend such ambiguity and indeterminacy? Why might I counterpose, to an agenda straightforward, “in your face” lesbian representation, an alternate erotics of surrogacy and displacement? There is no question that we are in a period of intense commodification of identity, with an attendant demand for extremely reductive and normalizing approaches to image-making.
I Seek to Steal the Sexual Body
This feature originally appeared in ART PAPERS November/December 1994 In my persistent drive to locate images of my radical black...
Against Cultural Amnesia
This feature originally appeared in ART PAPERS November/December 1994 Cultural amnesia seems to have reached epidemic proportions. Everyone, including...
Alison Nguyen’s Andra8 and the Gig Workers of the Data Economy
Sitting in front of a wrinkled sea-green backdrop is Andra8, the protagonist of Alison Nguyen’s 19-minute film my favorite software...
WangShui: Uncertainty in the Network
One of my earliest memories of the artist WangShui is of cats. Cats were the focus of their undergraduate thesis...
different ways to describe the ends of things
notes on Laurie Anderson
ID: A video still of artist Laurie Anderson, cropped against a light blue-and-white background. Anderson, a White woman in her...
Neo Muyanga: A Mass of Cyborgs
A Mass of Cyborgs, Neo Muyanga’s first solo, is a fitting inaugural exhibition for the Center for Art, Research and...
Some Questions Surrounding Robots and Rivers
Media artist and theorist Mark Amerika engaged in a conversation with GPT-2 (generative pre-trained transformer)—an open-source language model released in...