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Expanded documentary, experimental ethnographic film, environmental justice, eco-disasters, multispecies ethnography, invasive species, the anthropocene, and jellyfish.
Documentary, counter-narratives, social movements, identity, gender, Arabic graffiti, spatiality
Documentary, landscape, urban studies, environmental activism.
Exit Zero: An Atlas of One City Block Through Time
Feminist Film Praxis, Women’s and Queer Film Historiography, Technology and Social Change
Rebecca Ora/rora is a mixed-media artist, performer and scholar based in California whose darkly humorous socially-engaged work explores comedy, discomfort, conflict, and the limits of "appropriate" representation of trauma. Her recent projects include Porn For The Blind, 9/11 Scarf, The Independent Sovereign Nation State of Pantasia, Anne Frank: The Revised Definitive Critical Media Edition, Killing Time in Battambang: A Film About The Holocaust, and Porn For The Blind Pt.II. She has exhibited at Steven Wolf Fine Arts, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, and Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), among others. Her writing has been included in numerous art catalogues and anthologies, and she will be published in the upcoming book Constructions of the Real.
Noise, mediation, DIY electronics, semiotics of consumer media technologies, signal interference
Film and digital media as a radically new form of public forum, new media, participatory archive, and open subjectivity.
Surveillance/sousveillance/dataveillance studies, conceptual documentary practice, cinema of social justice, intervention art, media archeology, and experimental histories
Film and documentary studies, Philippine studies, expanded documentary, transmedia, spatial montage, public sphere, counterpublics, multimedia journalism, art history and theory, labor
Immersive environments for teaching history/archaeology – especially buried women’s history – in embodied and interactive ways.
participatory archives, internet art, the public domain, metadata, panoptics, forensic aesthetics, open video, free culture
Interested in exploring the role of art in the on-going process of healing, in relation to playful interactive technological art and post-human bodies
Committed to a practice based in conceptual, intellectual, and historical consideration of video, performance, sound, and the cultural framework of place.
archival audiovisual, video installation, documentary film, Colombia, exile in Latin America.