August 25, 2025
I seek a more emphatically speculative approach to media archaeology, one capable of apprehending the spatio-temporal scales that transcend what can be grasped through technical restoration and hands-on operation. The work of Jean Katambayi Mukendi seems to offer just such a pathway.
August 23, 2025
A moving image work that engages with the multi-layered histories of land, lake water, and toxicity—histories of remnants and ghosts—must itself be stratified. It must attempt to navigate multiple spatiotemporal scales without losing orientation, and attune to mediating what are, in essence, invisible elemental specters.
August 25, 2025
The debate over whether Lu Xun’s mural should preserve his smoking image points to the historical complexity of how reactionary and revolutionary forces have aesthetically coded the body and desire.
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Sep 9-13, 2025: Will be speaking at the interdisciplinary conference "Taboo-Transgression-Transcendence" in Slovenia.
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Aug 25-30, 2025: Will be speaking at the congress of The International Committee for the Conservation of the Industrial Heritage (TICCIH) in Sweden.
Aug 27, 2025: Speaking at the "Futurities II: The Transnational Exchange of Chinese and American Film and Media Theories", Columbia University.
Jul 21-27, 2025: Participating in the "Excluded Media VII" summer workshop at Northwestern University.
Jul 16, 2025: Speaking at the "Shaping Futures" conference at Seoul National University.
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