Talks

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.

For the 2016 Day With(out) Art, Visual AIDS presents COMPULSIVE PRACTICE, a video compilation of compulsive, daily, and habitual practices by nine artists and activists who live with their cameras as one way to manage, reflect upon, and change how they are deeply affected by HIV/AIDS. This hour-long video program will be distributed internationally to museums, art institutions, schools and AIDS organizations.

Compulsive Practice, December 2016. Screened at these venues, and many more, for Day With (out) Art, 2017.

Everyday Curator’s Walk-through, December 2016.

Everyday explores the AIDS crisis (historically and currently) through the lens of artwork that looks at and evidences daily experiences and practices in response to HIV/AIDS. Everyday is co-presented with Visual AIDS, a contemporary arts organization that utilizes art to fight AIDS by provoking dialogue, supporting HIV+ artists, and preserving a legacy, because AIDS is not over.

November 2016. On #100hardtruths-#fakenews digital media literacy project.

Slide-share, November 2016.

October 2016.

Moderator, film screening, Deep Run. October 2016.

Filmmakers panel, September 2016. Screened The Watermelon Woman.

“Who are the Stewards of the AIDS Archive?” With Ted Kerr, September 2016.

Speaker and co-organizer. This symposium honors the 20th anniversary of Cheryl Dunye’s film, “The Watermelon Woman” (1996). The first feature film directed by and starring a black lesbian, the production of this film marked a watershed moment for black cinema, feminist cinema, lesbian cinema, and new queer cinema. Appearing in the heyday of what filmmaker and scholar Yvonne Welbon has called the “golden age” of black queer cinema, the film garnered widespread critical acclaim, and its success inspired many black lesbians to create their own films in the years following. Her latest release, “Black is Blue” (2014) is a critically acclaimed narrative short film that follows the life of a black transgender man in Oakland, California. Dunye continues to break ground through complex filmic representations of the intersections of race, gender, and sexuality. This symposium is both a moment of celebration and introspection: featuring presentations by scholars who draw on the interdisciplinary fields of feminist, lesbian, queer, and trans* studies in their critical approaches to black cultural production, but who also will engage “the tensions and contradictions that bind these approaches together.”

September 2016. “Affect Bleeds in Feminist Social Networks.”

“Producing Media Worlds” panelist, September 2016.

Teaching Documentary Workshop. August 2016.

Keynote Address, Women’s Intl. Film Network, 2016.
“Who decides what we will remember tomorrow?”

Workshop leader, March 2016.

Panel Chair, March 2016. Troubling Transgender Media.

In conversation with Anita Sarkeesian, 2016.

“Ev-Ent-Anglement and Affect,” June 2015.

“Toward an accessible, open, accountable, transformative and transforming feminist university of our dreams,” May 2015.

“(Re)Encountering the Past in the Age of Ongoing,” Key-Note Address with Ted Kerr, April 2015.

FemTechNet’s Distributed Pedagogy to Improve the Digital Cultural Archive; Trans Women’s Media Activism: Digital Interventions and HIV/AIDS. Workshop Participant, March 2015.

2015. “Being at Home with HIV.”