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DESCRIPTION:Kara Keeling\n	Associate Professor\, Cinema Studies\, University
  of Southern CaliforniaOn “Digitopia”: Blackness\, Technology\, and the Di
 gital FrameAbstract: Questions concerning technology have long been part o
 f Black film studies. Indeed\, as John Akomfrah points out in “Digitopia a
 nd the Spectres of Diaspora\,' the extent to which anti-black racism is in
 herent in the film apparatus itself has been of concern to those film and 
 media scholars and makers who have sought to craft theories\, analyses\, f
 ilms and videos capable of transforming existing race relations by reveali
 ng another organization of things within the cinematic.⁠ For Akomfrah\, th
 e history of debate\, analysis\, experimentation\, and failure within anal
 ogue media forms\, such as film and video\, that raise the possibility tha
 t those forms might support anti-racist and/or Black media practices point
  towards what he calls a “digitopic desire” or a “digitopic yearning” that
  haunts the history of analogue media praxis.  Akomfrah argues that such a
  “digitopia\,” perceptible throughout film history\, anticipates today’s d
 igital media technologies and is fulfilled by them. In this talk\, I consi
 der Akomfrah’s proposition concerning the potential of digital media techn
 ology. While Akomfrah reads the preoccupation with the technologies of med
 ia making within the history of Black film praxis as the presence of a yea
 rning for today’s digital technologies\, I argue that digital media techno
 logies\, like the analogue ones to which they are related\, raise a series
  of issues about the ongoing centrality of technology and technē to Black 
 existence. Rather than fulfilling a promise made and broken by celluloid a
 nd other analogue media technologies\, digital media intensifies elements 
 constitutive of the cinematic by making them more broadly perceptible. As 
 Akomfrah points out\, digital media technologies make the mode of producti
 on of audio-visual images more accessible to filmmakers whose access to im
 age-making has been structurally limited. New possibilities for creative e
 xploration and imaginative experimentation\, including new strategies for 
 improvisation with audio-visual images\, open up for those filmmakers beca
 use the barriers to production are less formidable than with the more capi
 tal intensive technologies. At the same time\, the greater accessibility o
 f digital media technologies makes it possible to renew an interrogation o
 f historical relationships between technology and Blackness in ways that\,
  perhaps\, reach beyond any digital frame.\n \n
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LOCATION:Room 217\, Maass Chemistry Building\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 0B8
 \, 801 rue Sherbrooke Ouest
SUMMARY:Kara Keeling 'On 'Digitopia': Blackness\, Technology\, and the Digi
 tal Frame'| AHCS Speaker Series
URL:/channels/event/kara-keeling-ahcs-speaker-series-2
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