Talks

Association of Moving Image Archivists

American Studies Association

With over 40 contributors from around the world, this issue of the On Curating journal wrestles with “forgetting”, “seeing”, “collecting” and “making” AIDS related culture in the 21st century, and the growing impulse to historize aspects of early responses to the crisis. Through academic essays, conversations, visual projects, reprints and personal reflections, a reader will be exposed to ideas, theories, images, and advice from artists, academics, activists, curators, writers and others around the ethics and practices of curating AIDS-related culture within the ongoing epidemic. At this event, NYC based contributors will share their work, and engage in conversation with each other and guests.

Visible Evidence, 2019

Digital Methods Summer School

University of Amsterdam, July 2019

Panelist, CLAGS, CUNY Grad Center.

Margaret Rhee’s Harvard University class presentation about Fake News Poetry Workshops with Chet’la Sebree.

NYU, Cinema Studies Department, panelist.

Grad Center, CUNY, American Studies Program. Panel with fellow Brooklyn College professors.

NYU Performance Studies Department with Barbara Browning.

Advance Screening: Native Son for CUNY. Moderator.

Respondent to Vinicius Navarro.

A video program for Metanoia

Programmed with Katherine Cheairs.

The NY Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center

NYU Art Department.

“I’ve Left Documentary Entirely,” on Fake News Poetry Workshops

Brooklyn College, Hess Scholar, Jose David Saldivar in conversation with poets and writers. March 2019.

Presentation on AIDS activist video for Television History class.

Fake News Poetry Video Workshop with Orr Meniron and Kyle Booten at Dartmouth College Digital Humanities and Social Engagement Center.

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.