Holding Patterns Installation

Holding Patterns Video Installation photo

Produced in 2024
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Mimesis Documentary Festival

View it here: https://www.mimesisfestival.org/

A meditation on technologies of memory, with close attention paid to medium specificity, this installation considers how Zoom and other pandemic technologies composite onto screens, and also into rooms, flattening and deepening connection, attention, and care.

Video Installation: 4 Zoom interviews, 2 death bed documentaries, AIDS media weblinks, zines and photo albums, COVID apartment furnishings and technologies, kitchen table and desk w/ detritus, sweater, scarf

Mimesis Documentary Festival, August 2024

Please Hold

Pandemic Media

What we watch, share, want, disregard, erase, don’t watch, and imagine in times of bodily assault.

The Watermelon Woman

VHS Activism Archive

VHS Archives considers how to store, transfer, share, research, and reactivate media collections facing obsolescence. It is a database of one VHS collection with information, citation, and in some case digitization that can lead to more.

Long Hauling

A series of essays highlighting the stories of “long COVID” survivors and community efforts to use the lessons learned from other viruses to provide care for patients during the early months of the outbreak.

We Need Gentle Truths for Now Podcast

We engage in radical digital media literacy by enjoying a bite of education and a bit of poetry, creating humane responses to fake news and social media in the era of Covid-19.

Long COVID: We Are Here!

Relational Space Gallery online exhibit. A fearless exploration into the long-haul experience.

#100hardtruths-#fakenews:
A primer on digital media literacy

Fake News Poetry Workshops:
Radical digital media literacy

FemTechNet:
A network of hundreds of international scholars and artists.

Feminist Online Spaces:
Building & Linking Principled Sites in Collaboration

Ev-ent-anglement.com:
an experiment in digital embodied collective feminist media praxis

PerpiTube:
Repurposing Social Media Spaces:
www.youtube.com/PerpiTubeSpace

WordPress Blog:
aljean.wordpress.com

YouTube Class: youtube.com/mediapraxisme

Media Praxis Online Publication: www.mediapraxis.org

Alex Juhasz on Vimeo

VHS Archive: A Brooklyn College graduate course and GC Center for Humanities Working Group exploring what to do with our soon-to-be-obsolete but always-beloved collections.

Women of Vision:
Research Meeting on Feminist Film and Video History, NYC 1994