The 2022-23 GEM Seminar is organized around the problem of Video/Art/TV. 

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Our year-long Seminar in Media and Political Theory for 2022-2023 will focus on digital aesthetics and politics in the age of internet television. The series features lectures and artist talks, screenings, and a periodic reading group. Key themes will include platform histories, feminist video interventions, internet pornography, archives, new network genres, and emergent video forms/practices. Speakers include Erika Balsom, Elisa Giardina Papa, James J. Hodge, siren eun young jung, Jeff Scheible, Jakob Steensen, as well as readings by Legacy Russell, among other events. 

Fall Schedule (events are in-person at the lab unless otherwise indicated)

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“Lynch’s Daily Digits”

Jeff Scheible (King’s College)

October 26th, 5pm
 

“Data, Heresy, and Censorship”

Elisa Giardina Papa (UC Berkeley/Tufts University)

November 4th, 4pm (zoom) 

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“The Smoosh, or the Auto-Affective Genres of Always-On Computing” 

James J. Hodge (Northwestern University)

November 17th, 5pm
 

Legacy Russell’s Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto: reading group and screening

December 1st, 5pm

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Winter Schedule (events are in-person at the lab unless otherwise indicated)

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"Sensing the Unseen"
Jakob Kudsk Steensen (artist)
January 26th, 5pm

Milieux Institute Resource Room, EV 11.705 

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Video Art & Seriality: reading group and screening
February 15th, 5pm 

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"The Boob Tube: Tracking Pornhub's Emergence"
Heather Berg (Washington University in St. Louis), Becky Holt (Concordia University), Susanna Paasonen (University of Turku)
March 24th, 11 am (zoom)
   
"Yeosung Gukguek Project: To Imagine Queer Mnemonics"
siren eun young jung (artist)
April 18th, 6pm (Visual Arts Building, VA 114)