![]() The other week, for example, I came across an intriguing neuroimaging study reported on the SFARI website. Sometimes, this provides insights that really aren’t obvious from the original paper. Recently, I’ve discovered DataThief - an application that allows you to scan in a graph from a paper and extract the data points. Having spent much of the past week struggling to make sense of my data, it’s good to come home, pour a glass of wine, put on some Sharon Jones, and, er… play with somebody else’s data! She is the author of L’écrivain antillais au miroir de sa littérature, Mythologies postcoloniales, and co-editor of Postcolonial Realms of Memory. LYDIE MOUDILENO is the Marion Frances Chevalier Professor of French and a Professor of French and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. He is the co-adaptor of Octavia Butler’s Kindred and Parable of the Sower graphic novels co-creator of I am Alfonso Jones co-author of Out of Sequence: Underrepresented Voices in American Comics and co-editor of The Blacker the Ink: Constructions of Blackness in Comics and Sequential Art. JOHN JENNINGS is a Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of California at Riverside. A response by Lydie Moudileno will follow. Image Credit: Detail of Joe Orlando and Marie Severin, “Judgment Day!” University Park Campus, 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM RSVP University Park Campus FreeĪ (remote) keynote by John Jennings. She is the author of L’écrivain antillais au miroir de sa littérature, Mythologies postcoloniales, and co-editor of Postcolonial Realms of Memory.ĭepartments of American Studies and Ethnicity, Anthropology, Art History, Comparative Literature, French and Italian, Gender and Sexuality Studies, and Latin American and Iberian Cultures the Annenberg School of Communications and the Roski School of Art and Design the Levan Institute for the Humanities, Polymathic Study, and the Visual Studies Research Institute. He will be sharing in progress ideas around his own praxis and expound upon his notions of how the speculation of other worlds, objects and entities can drive robust and complex conversations around the dearth of connective Black speculative mythologies that can empower people of African descent. DATATHIEF 3 ARCHIVEVisual artist and cultural activist John Jennings has often spoken of his fascination with the Data Thief as an extremely useful diegetic prototype that can help excavate long lost artifacts and create new “artifictions.” Jennings’ lecture will center around some examples of how scholars have utilized, sometimes unknowingly, the practices of Akomfrah’s time-traveling myth-maker and how the creation of a radicalized archive can help form a resistant strategy against the marginalization of Black creative culture. The idea of a “Data Thief” is a rich and powerful prosthetic that has been echoed, in some ways, by curators and editors like Sheree Renée Thomas, Reynaldo Anderson, and Nalo Hopkinson. The film used a character called “The Data Thief” as a time-traveling living lens that served as a guide through which the story and the journey could be unpacked. The film’s focus was around finding connections between Afrofuturism and the hybridized soundscapes of Black digital music production throughout the African Diaspora. In 1997, Black British filmmaker and scholar John Akomfrah created a short film called The Last Angel of History. A response by Lydie Moudileno will follow.Ī part of the 2021 Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture symposium, “(In)Visible Histories: Counterhistory, Race, and Visuality.” To add this event to your calendar, click the date(s) below.įriday, Febru 15:00:00 17:00:00 6 Becoming the Data Thief: Notes on a Black Speculative Mythopoetic A (remote) keynote by John Jennings. ![]()
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