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After our class looked at the work of the Black Audio Film Collective, I ran into this account of a report from the British government: From The New York Times: Upbeat Official Report on Race in Britain Draws a Swift Backlash The government report, while acknowledging enduring racism, said Britain provided a model for other …

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Several young indigenous media makers have created a collective called Cousin. Here is a link to show of their current work: https://www.redcat.org/event/cousin-cycle-0 This is not a free event, but it is worth just looking at the text used to describe the project.

This is an Instagram site that I liked for style and content both: https://www.instagram.com/thenapministry/

This is an impressive photo essay about a mask project in San Miguel Allende:

One of the topics that came up was the idea of how important having images can be for our ability to understand and envision our own history. The documentary photography movement that started in the 1930s continued and grew through the 1940s and lasted until the start of the McCarthy era blacklisting. Here are some …

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The Center for Social Media and Impact specializes in helping documentary makers and their work have more clout. Here is a recent study they did on how the media covers issues of homelessness and housing security in the US: This report suggests that some important ways of thinking about homelessness are missing from the “mainstream” …

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One thing that came up in our discussion on February 4 was emotional “zeitgeist” how we feel and how we heal in these stressful times. I found this article in the times about “Climate Anxiety” and how emotional burdens can be seen as the source of our power to change things.

This is a center for art and politics that has an ongoing series of seminars with engaged artists. (In class we mentioned the Afro-futurist group, who presented there recently.). The upcoming seminar looks at art and surveillance and happens Monday Feb. 8. https://veralistcenter.org/events/seminar-4-reimagining-protocols-reclaiming-challenging-and-queering-surveillance