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UMass Boston || English 600 || Spring 2015 || Prof. Erin Anderson

Tag: materiality

Blog Post #7: Image, Materiality, and Affect

Create a very short (less than 30-second) video from an even shorter (less than 5-second) clip of found video footage. OR make some other appropriative intervention of your own design into a found footage or “archival” clip of your choice.

See Martin Arnold “Alone. Life Wastes Andy Hardy”  and Dara Birnbaum’s “Technology/Transformation: Wonder Woman” for inspiration.

Upload your video experiment to YouTube or Vimeo and embed it in your post. Write a brief reflection considering your practice in conversation with this week’s reading/viewing materials.

Blog Post #2: Archival Encounters

Pay a visit to an official archive of your choice and spend a few hours exploring its collections, following whatever interests or intrigues you. Using Farge and/or Steedman as a point of entry, consider your experience as an encounter with both the space of the archive and the materials it contains.

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