A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
Germaine Halegoua explores the under-investigated networks within infrastructure studies: networks of “always off†connection that are purposefully constructed as dark or inactive.
Read moreGreg Clinton considers apocalyptic futures, survivalism, and “crazy preppers” as responses to changing social mores through 10 Cloverfield‘s representation of bunkers as fortified domestic spaces.
Read moreRoopali Mukherjee discusses racial (in)visibility and the modern technical malfunctions that misidentify people of color while organizing and reifying powerful epidermal schema of differentiation and discrimination.
Read moreIn her contribution to the Flow Special Issue on Loop Media, Toby Lee considers the multiple and repeating uses of looped documentary media in the national September 11 Memorial Museum, examining their their particular sense of timelessness and their relationship to collective historical trauma.
Read moreIn his contribution to the Flow Special Issue on Loop Media, Colin Beckett discusses the GIF — the most visible looped media form — in relation to the conventions of early cinema, news and online journalism, and avant-garde art, as well as social media self-promotion.
Read moreIn her contribution to the Flow Special Issue on Loop Media, S. Topiary Landberg argues for the benefits and potentials of loop narratives and circular forms as a productive alternative to dominant linear logics; where she sees such linear narratives and modes as patriarchal, controlling, and predetermined, loops provide for the expression of “experiences of change and growth to be inclusive and fundamentally non-combative and non-competitive.”
Read moreIn her contribution to the Flow Special Issue on Loop Media, Lyn Goeringer uses enunciation theory and the work of Émile Benveniste and Anette Vandsø to consider looping practices in audio recording generally, and in the music of Delia Derbyshire and Daphne Oram specifically.
Read moreIn his contribution to the Flow Special Issue on Loop Media, David Bering-Porter explores the role of the loop as a temporal form in the video collage work of artist and director Marco Brambilla, particularly his Megaplex series.
Read moreIn his contribution to the Flow Special Issue on Loop Media, Josh Guilford examines the disruptions of the loop’s “erosive temporality” and its fostering of alternative viewing practices in Jenny Perlin’s installation piece, 100 Sinkholes.
Read moreIn her contribution to the Flow Special Issue on Loop Media, Tess Takahashi discusses the creation of Wind Map, a looped media project that replicates a real-time live feed, in relation to data visualization strategies and anxieties circulating around Big Data and the fear there is now “too much to know.”
Read moreThis year’s conference roundtables will take place at the Texas Union (UNB) and the Belo Media Center (BMC) on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin. Maps of building layouts and roundtable rooms will be provided in your registration packet. Texas Union (UNB) – 2308 Whitis Ave. Site of the first Flow Conference, the Texas Union will once […]
Read moreFormer conference coordinator and journal editor (and roller-derby aficionado) Alexis Carreiro muses about the anxieties and joys of organizing the first Flow conference, and presents her ideas for three iterations of Flow – the journal, a manuscript, and biennial conference.
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