Talks

Union Docs, Program Moderator. How and why practices subvert the formal and political logics of character-driven storytelling. One response to “Beyond Story.”

Columbia University, “DiAna’s Hair Ego Remix.”

Session on my activist queer writing/media; Princeton University, November 2018.

The second Fake News Video-Poetry Workshop occurred on November 3, 2018, in New Haven.

Interfaces are the central instruments in the new economy of signs. They are both tools and discursive frames. Interfaces, insofar as they are instituted as an order of discourse, are transitive and mediating. Post-truth is the term coined to define a linguistic regime in which objective facts are less influential in the formation of public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief. This phenomenon can be analyzed as a specific system of interfaces where a whole set of communicative, technical, social, political and economic issues converge.

University of Barcelona, Spain. Presentation on Fake News Poetry Workshops. November 2018.

Panel Chair, AIDS, Media and Memory: Legacies and Contestations in the Ongoing Emergency of the AIDS Crisis, ASA, November 2018.

Legacies and Contestations in the Ongoing Emergency of the AIDS Crisis, Panel Chair, November 2018.

The eleventh Fake News Poetry Workshop occurred on October 2, 2018, in Manhattan NY, led by Cathy James working with ten or more poets in the group “Poets of Course” (formerly Poets of Corsi).

My VHS AIDS Archives: Confessions from the Field of Queer Feminist Media Praxis.

Video and powerpoint of talk available here: https://aljean.wordpress.com/2018/11/17/my-vhs-archives-confessions-from-the-field-of-queer-feminist-media-praxis.

How Do We ReFrame the Conversation on Gender and Intersectionality; featured speaker, September 2018.

On VHS Archives, September 2018.

With Claudia Rankine, September 2018.

September 2018.

This symposium develops out of an oral history project of the same name undertaken by the Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art, focusing on memories of the AIDS crisis in the 1980s and ’90s and features conversations with artists, activists, and oral historians. July 2018.

June 2018.

The Watermelon Woman and Imitation of Life, May 2018.

Lynne DeSilva-Johnson, Occidental College, May 2018.

On Fake News Poetry Workshops, May 2018.

Fake News Poetry Workshop, with Orr Menirom, May 2018.

Margaret Rhee and Chet’la Sebree, NY, May 2018. Supported by Poets & Writers Grant.

Featured Graduate, on Fake News Poetry Workshops, April 2018.

April 2018.

With Lisa Cohen, April 2018. Supported by Poets & Writers Grant.

Outliers and American Vanguard Art, April 2018. Screening of The Watermelon Woman.

In conversation with Shu Lea Cheang after films screening, March 2018. A fundraiser for MIX.

Q & A, The Owls, Watermelon Woman, and Filmmakers panel, March 2018.

March 2018.

Fake News Poetry Writing Workshop, March 2018.

With Sam Soloman, March 2018.

Residency and talk, March 2018.

LA, March 2018.

Fake News Poetry Workshop with Kyle Booten, February 2018. See poems and other materials here: http://fakenews-poetry.org/ammerman-list.html.

How does queer + black film transform viewers, February 2018. Screening of The Watermelon Woman

Art Exhibition, Pitzer College Art Galleries, #100hardtruths-#fakenews Companion, January 2018.

The Ongoing AIDS Epidemic in Four Documents, January 2018. Screening of We Care.

Visual Arts and the AIDS Epidemic. Interviewed December 2017 by Theodore Kerr. In 2015, the Archives of American Art received support from the Keith Haring Foundation to produce a series of in-depth oral history interviews with key witnesses to the AIDS epidemic and its impact on the visual art community. In selecting these narrators and their interviewers, the Archives worked with an advisory committee comprised of artists and advocates familiar with and active in the New York art community during the height of the AIDS epidemic. Subjects are primarily New York City-based.

December 2017.

December 2017.

Home Video: Media Art and AIDS, December 2017. Screening of We Care. Presented by Electronic Arts Intermix.

Poetry workshop, #100hardtruths, November 2017.

“#100hardtruths-#fakenews,” October 2017.

Guest speaker, August 2017.

8th Floor Gallery, hosted by Sur Rodney Sur and Elia Alba; invited participant, August 2017.

Media Response to HIV, July 2017. Screen We Care.

From Fruit Machine to Perils of Pedagogy, Tom Waugh’s Graduation, June 2017.

AIDS at Home: Art and Everyday Activism examines how artists and activists have expanded the idea of caretaking and family and navigated the political stakes of domestic life in the face of the HIV/AIDS crisis, from the early 1980s to the present. From the earliest diagnoses, the HIV/AIDS epidemic has spurred New Yorkers to create new forms of social support, identify new legal battles, and explore new artistic terrain. The exhibition places paintings, photography, and film alongside archival objects from activist groups and support programs to uncover the private stories of HIV and AIDS and reconsider caretaking, community building, and making art as acts of resistance.

“We Care” (1990) included in show, 2017.

Chair for Keynote Presentation by Chuck Kleinhans, May 2017.

Brooklyn College, May 2017. Presented on the #100hardtruths-#fakenews digital media literacy project.

News & Research in the Digital Age, May 2017. Presented on the #100hardtruths-#fakenews digital media literacy project.

April 2017. Presented on #100hardtruths-#fakenews digital media literacy project.

How Do We Take Care? Video screening with What Would an HIV Doula Do? Collective and WAVE, May 2017. Screen We Care.

Propaganda, Deception and Fake News Panel, May 2017. Present on #100hardtruths-#fakenews digital media literacy project.

April 2017. Present on the #100hardtruths-#fakenews digital media literacy project. Faye Ginsburg respondant.

March 2017. Presented on #100hardtruths-#fakenews project.

Organized by Adam Lambert, March 2017. Presented on #100hardtruths-#fakenews digital media literacy project.

The Fake News Poetry Workshop: March 2018.

Race and Racism through Fake News, March 2017.

Live Ideas Festival, March 2017. Screen We Care.

March 2017.

61 Local Bar, February 2017. On feminist pedagogy against Trump.