BCNM Around the Web January 2022
Check out the amazing work of our faculty, students, and alumni around the web this January!
Vincente Perez
Vincente featured at Berkeley's Arts Research Center's 2021 Fall Poetry Fellows Reading to share a work and converse with fellow faculty members about the event's theme: coexistence. The fellows discussed issues of mutuality, synchronicity, interdependence, and care from the challenges of living together on our planet to the fine line between animate and inanimate.
Learn more about the event here!
Jacob Gaboury
Jacob recently spoke about his book Image Objects: An Archaeology of Computer Graphics for The Townsend Center for the Humanities. In this Book Chat, Jacob explores the development of computer graphics as signaling a change not only in the way we make images, but also in the way we mediate our world through the computer - and how we have come to reimagine that world as computational.
Learn more about the event here!
Hannah Zeavin
Hannah recently participated in S.T.O.P x RadTech - Affect & the Algorithim: Mental Health & the Risks of Emotion AI. The online event examined the rapidly expanding mental health monitoring tech industry following social distinacing and the stresses of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Learn more about the event here!
Hannah's The Distance Cure: A History of Teletherapy featured in the New Statesman as a book of the year. The article writes: "Zeavin shows, the analytic relationship always needs mediation: ritual, appointments, money, all create the 'distanced intimacy' across which the undercurrents of fantasy and transference flow."
Read the entire article here!
Hannah will feature in a webinar for the Freud Museum in London to discuss her book The Distance Cure on February 24.
Register and learn more about the event here!
Hannah will participate in Network Talk's 2022 Book Forum Series, a platform for scholars and researchers to present their work, frame key debates in the field, and gather feedback from a community of interdisciplinary thinkers from the Data & Society network. The event will be held on March 3.
Register and learn more about the event here!
Jane McGonigal
Jane's app SuperBetter is featured in Inverse article "Are Video Games Bad for Mental Health? Scientists Reveal the Psychological Truth". The article argues that games like SuperBetter can be a low-stakes outlet for people to let off steam or frustration triggered by school or work life.
Read the entire article here!
Trevor Paglen
Trevor contributed to the DePaul Art Musuem's exhibition "Remaking the Exceptional: Tea, Tortue, and Reparations | Chicago to Guantánamo”, which will run March 10 through Aug. 7, 2022. The exhibition marks 20 years since the opening of the United States’ extralegal prison in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba by examining the local and international ramifications of state violence and uplift acts of creative resistance while highlighting connections between policing and incarceration in Chicago and the human rights violations of the "Global War on Terror".
Learn more about the exhibition here!