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Sexed Asian Machines: On The Communicability Of Multimedia
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September 16, 2010
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Sexed Asian Machines: On The Communicability Of Multimedia
Brown Bag Lunch Talk with Jian Chen, Gallatin School Of Individualized Study, NYU
Date: Monday, Sep 20th
Time: 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM
Location:
A/P/A Institute, Room 709
41-51 East 11th Street
7th Floor, Room 709
New York, NY 10003
Free and open to the public.
To RSVP:Email apa.rsvp@nyu.edu, or Call 212-992-9653
Brown Bag Lunch Talk with Jian Chen, Gallatin School Of Individualized Study, NYU
Date: Monday, Sep 20th
Time: 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM
Location:
A/P/A Institute, Room 709
41-51 East 11th Street
7th Floor, Room 709
New York, NY 10003
Free and open to the public.
To RSVP:Email apa.rsvp@nyu.edu, or Call 212-992-9653
Bring your own lunch and A/P/A Institute will provide beverages and dessert!
Chen’s talk will focus on semi-documentaries on sex work and mainstream online pornography, which feature Asian feminine subjects. Chen contends that these docu/porn forms make potentially explicit the paradoxical relationships between autonomy and control, enjoyment and labor, shaping image consumption and cultural visibility within transnational neoliberal capitalism. And Chen's talk will explore the racial, sexual fantasies that support the imagined free-flow circulation of images and information within multimedia public spheres.
For more information and to RSVP, contact TK
Jian Chen is Postdoctoral Fellow in the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University. Chen’s current research explores new demands made on cultural consumption, representation, and politics, with the transnational circulation of sexed racial and ethnic images in post-cinematic film and media. Chen’s article “Sex Without Friction: the Limits of Multi-Mediated Human Subjectivity in Cheang Shu Lea’s Tech-Porn” is forthcoming in the electronic journal Postmodern Culture.
Cosponsored with the NYU Center for the Study of Gender & Sexuality and the Gallatin School for Individualized Study
For more information, go to A/P/A Institute at New York University.
Tomie Arai is an activist, artist, philosopher, poet, historian,
printmaker, instillation artist, and public artist who has worked
collaboratively with community groups for over thirty years. She has
realized numerous commissions, including ones from the Cambridge Arts
Council, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs Percent for Art
Program, and the National Endowment for the Arts. She is the recipient
of two New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships in Printmaking, a
1995 Joan Mitchell Visual Arts Grant, a 1997 Mid Atlantic Arts
Foundation Visual Artist Residency, and a 1994 NEA Visual Arts
Fellowship. Arai's work explores the relationship of art to history and
the role that memory plays in retelling a collective past. Some of her
recent works include a series of constructions that incorporate
silk-screened photographs addressing issues of identity, displacement,
and acculturation. She is married to Legan Wong, has two children and
is a grandmother.
Corky Lee, known as the "undisputed unofficial Asian American
Photographer Laureate," is a self-taught photographer, has been
documenting Asian and Pacific American community for over 30 years. His
work, which has been described as "only a small attempt to rectify
omissions in our history text books," has appeared in Time magazine, the New York Times, The Village Voice, Associated Press, The Villager and Downtown Express. In an interview in AsianWeek
Lee commented: "I'd like to think that every time I take my camera out
of my bag, it's like drawing a sword to combat indifference, injustice
and discrimination, trying to get rid of stereotypes."
