Media Praxis

Hunger/Stud

by Alex Juhasz — Pitzer College
March 23, 2012 – 12:06

Attended a midnight premier of Hunger Games. ... read more »

Fred Rant

by Alex Juhasz — Pitzer College
March 17, 2012 – 14:04

I have a piece, “Fred Rant,” in a stellar special issue of TWC on fan/remix video edited by Julie Levin Russo and Francesca Coppa, who write: ... read more »

A Trip to Boring

by Alex Juhasz — Pitzer College
March 15, 2012 – 12:24

So, I’m sitting in my living room with Hugo on our relatively small but impressively flat new monitor, and my twelve-year old son comments, a minute or two in, that it seems to be moving awfully slow. He reiterates this sentiment when the title card meanders into sight, many more minutes into the flick. I agree. My thirteen-year old step-daughter flits by, and since she saw it in the theater, my son asks, “does the movie stay so boring?” and she replies, that yes, it really does. ... read more »

Factiness: Lifespans of and Pissing Matches over

by Alex Juhasz — Pitzer College
March 13, 2012 – 17:18

John D’Agata, “author,” and Jim Fingal,” fact-checker’s” The Lifespan of a Fact is an initially intriguing, often funny, sometimes intellectually stimulating dialogue in the Socratic mode between a famous writer and Professor of Non-Fiction Writing (University of Iowa) and a lowly intern (who I think went to Harvard), that sadly often devolves into a testosterone-driven pissing m ... read more »

Out in Public

by Alex Juhasz — Pitzer College
March 09, 2012 – 16:36

I was driving home from the opening of Natalie Bookchin‘s amazing multi channel video installation, Now he’s out in public and everyone can see with fellow “video artists” Rachel Mayeri and Anne Bray and we were commenting on how hard it must be to make something that eloquen ... read more »

Female Oscar Coasters

by Alex Juhasz — Pitzer College
February 28, 2012 – 01:55

Over two years ago, I wrote these words about a female directed Oscar contending war film: “The film plays this war as it is—an emotional roller coaster of fear and boredom, action and waiting.” Of course, that film was Hurt Locker which would go on to be a (the) big (only) best director Oscar win for a powerful female flick. ... read more »

Writing Values

by Alex Juhasz — Pitzer College
February 10, 2012 – 18:48

If you were required to make a video for a class that would get the most hits in a small amount of time, what qualities would you strive for? “S**t Girls Say at Superbowl” won just such a contest with a paltry 1400+ hits (when my students did this four years ago they got to 100,000 because, we can agree, YouTube was smaller then and easier to game). This year’s winner was timely, funny-enough, pretty well done, meta to YouTube, and socially-networked: ... read more »

Comments as Writing

by Alex Juhasz — Pitzer College
February 08, 2012 – 15:22

My course, Learning from YouTube, advertises that all class assignments take the shape of YouTube videos or comments, hence pushing and challenging both the constraints of web 2.0′s platforms for higher learning, while at the same time, asking higher learning to take better account of the ways, places, and forms where learning occurs in 2012. ... read more »

Swoon at 20

by Alex Juhasz — Pitzer College
February 04, 2012 – 16:18

I had the pleasure of attending the first in a series of screenings at the UCLA film archive that will be revisiting the original films of “the new queer cinema” as so heralded by B. Ruby Rich in 1992. ... read more »

Voice as Structure

by Alex Juhasz — Pitzer College
February 01, 2012 – 12:41

Yesterday afternoon, I had the decided pleasure of partaking in a conversation with Natalie Bookchin, the amazing new media artist who is my friend and even sometimes collaborator. We spoke together with the Critical Digital Humanities group at UC Riverside about space, quotation, and community in relation to our critical media practices. ... read more »