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Catastrophe in a Bottle: Ellie Ga’s Medial Detritus of Drift 瓶中的灾难:艾莉·加的漂移的内部碎屑

The Journal of Media Art Study and Theory Pub Date : 2020-11-13 DOI: 10.59547/26911566.1.2.10

C. Whitworth

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Alpine Topographies of Loss: On the Media Temporality of Glaciers 高山地形的损失:论冰川的媒介时间性

The Journal of Media Art Study and Theory Pub Date : 2020-11-13 DOI: 10.25969/MEDIAREP/15852

D. Schrey

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Descending Parnassus: The State of Material Is in Play 下山的帕那萨斯:物质的状态在发挥作用

The Journal of Media Art Study and Theory Pub Date : 2020-11-13 DOI: 10.59547/26911566.1.2.05

Jason E. Geistweidt

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Mourning Absence: Place, Augmented Reality (AR), and Materiality in Border Memorial 哀悼缺席:边界纪念中的地点、增强现实(AR)和物质性

The Journal of Media Art Study and Theory Pub Date : 2020-11-13 DOI: 10.59547/26911566.1.2.07

Alyssa Quintanilla

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Autoimmune: Media, Computation, and the AIDS Crisis 自身免疫:媒体、计算和艾滋病危机

The Journal of Media Art Study and Theory Pub Date : 2020-11-13 DOI: 10.59547/26911566.1.2.04

Marcos Serafim

{"title":"Autoimmune: Media, Computation, and the AIDS Crisis","authors":"Marcos Serafim","doi":"10.59547/26911566.1.2.04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.59547/26911566.1.2.04","url":null,"abstract":"Characterized by distortions of fact and truth, the AIDS crisis points to the existence of a necropolitical engine supported by media and technology, which continues to kill underrepresented populations despite the latest achievements of LGBTI+ politics. The historical mishandling of the AIDS crisis in the United States influences our existing experience of it worldwide; revisiting the broad range of images that helped generate conflicts of meaning in the American response to the crisis can shed light on the formation of historical, exported misconceptions, and put into question hegemonical media and history-making technologies. Including news and commercial media, public statements by politicians in charge, and the entertainment industry, American images helped shape this crisis around the world through acts of misrepresentation and fact distortion. Distorted knowledge is essential to the existence of current power structures; control over information lies in the hands of those with access to computing technology that can shape it. This same technology enables a massive manipulation of affects that deploys misrepresentation, distortion, and corruption as principal tools. Thus, technological misuse and illiteracy are structural elements in this necropolitical scenario, helping reproduce settler colonialism at an infrastructural level.","PeriodicalId":344094,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Media Art Study and Theory","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131707400","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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COVID-19 and the UK Live Music Industry: A Crisis of Spatial Materiality COVID-19和英国现场音乐产业:空间物质性危机

The Journal of Media Art Study and Theory Pub Date : 2020-11-13 DOI: 10.59547/26911566.1.2.12

Iain A. Taylor, Sarah Raine, C. Hamilton

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Contagions, Sleepwalkers, and the Nonconscious of Social Media: An Interview with Tony D. Sampson 传染、梦游者和社交媒体的无意识:采访托尼·d·桑普森

The Journal of Media Art Study and Theory Pub Date : 2020-11-13 DOI: 10.59547/26911566.1.2.02

Jernej Markelj

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Searching for a Remnant in Pixels and Static: The Fleeting Materiality of Plane Crashes 在像素和静态中寻找残余:飞机失事的短暂物质性

The Journal of Media Art Study and Theory Pub Date : 2020-11-13 DOI: 10.59547/26911566.1.2.08

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Lac Bugs, Petrocapitalism, and Data: ‘Mediatic Musicology Without Music’ 虫虫、石油资本主义和数据:“没有音乐的媒介音乐学”

The Journal of Media Art Study and Theory Pub Date : 2020-11-13 DOI: 10.59547/26911566.1.2.14

Ryan Nolan

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Living in Emergency: The Response of New German Documentary Theater 紧急状态下的生存:新德国纪实戏剧的回应

The Journal of Media Art Study and Theory Pub Date : 2020-11-13 DOI: 10.59547/26911566.1.2.11

D. Barry

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