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Power’s cool use of force

by Keith Miller — NYU/ Gallatin School
November 19, 2011 – 11:08

Look at the video. The students sit calmly, surrounded by chanting supporters. The masked perpetrator walks calmly to them and like a house painter would a wall, blasts them with pepper spray. The near serenity in his gait, in his gesture, speaks to an ease with which power asserts itself through violence. The very relaxed air is almost more chilling than the thought of the pepper spray burning the eyes. ... read more »

Digital Storytelling: Where the Experts

by Alex Juhasz — Pitzer College
November 07, 2011 – 22:11

I teach a course, Visual Research Methods, for Cultural Studies at the Claremont Graduate University where I push graduate students who have made a career of paper-writing to express their intellectual work about visual culture, visually. Even as the course provocatively pushes them as individuals out of their comfort zones of expression and audience, it also begs larger questions about field formation, training, authority, the use, ethics and scale of academic work, and its normative vernaculars, media, and modalities. ... read more »

Afterthoughts PerpiTube

by Alex Juhasz — Pitzer College
October 25, 2011 – 16:02

On Friday we spent a fruitful day discussing some of the ideas raised by, work made for, and communities engaged within PerpiTube. ... read more »

PerpiTube Symposium

by Alex Juhasz — Pitzer College
October 18, 2011 – 15:52

11_NIC_Perpitube_Flyer (please feel free to distribute, or better yet come… Panels will be taped and put on YouTube, of course.) ... read more »

Re-Organize Our Future?

by Alex Juhasz — Pitzer College
August 08, 2011 – 10:06

The second section, Isolation/Connection, of PerpiTube, my show with Pato Hebert, has ended with an uplifting set of provocations from Jutta Treviranus, Director of the Inclusive Design Research Center: ... read more »

Hi-Ways and Low-Roads: PerpiTube Reflections

by Alex Juhasz — Pitzer College
July 25, 2011 – 13:39

We’re two weeks and eight videos into PerpiTube. The distractions have been largely technical—email problems, DVD drives, compression rates—and easily fixed. The depth has been humbling and surprising: demonstrated in the generous and thoughtful participation of our invited presenters and many gallery guests. ... read more »

It’s a Mystery to Me: les cles e

by Alex Juhasz — Pitzer College
July 15, 2011 – 13:58

The third day of my show PerpiTube: Repurposing Social Media Spaces brought this remarkable and unexpected video by Shu Lea Cheang. ... read more »

YouTube in the Gallery

by Alex Juhasz — Pitzer College
July 07, 2011 – 14:45

Ciara Ennis, the curator of Pitzer College Art Galleries, interviewed Pato Hebert and I about our upcoming YouTube art show, PerpiTube. One of her questions was about the differences between our show and two recent attempts, at the Guggenheim and Irvine University Art Gallery, respectively. ... read more »

PerpiTube: Repurposing Social Media Spaces

by Alex Juhasz — Pitzer College
June 28, 2011 – 11:08

I am very pleased to announce the art show that I co-curated with Pato Hebert, PerpiTube: Repurposing Social Media Spaces. It will be held July 12 – September 6, 2011 at the Pitzer Art Galleries, where I work in Claremont, CA and in perpetuity on YouTube. ... read more »

Distraction Span: Disjointed Rapidfire Thought Requested

by Alex Juhasz — Pitzer College
April 06, 2011 – 15:22

My friend Brian Goldfarb and I just released Distraction Span: Technologies of Productive Disruption at MediaCommons. “With this cluster of The New Everyday we initiate a conversation about social media that sidesteps the panic over youth and digital distraction while not being afraid to look head-on at their everyday engagements with mobile devices and social networking.” Now we hope you will join the conversation. ... read more »