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Independent Journalism in Israel-Palestine: Navigating Crisis, Censorship, and Survival with +972 Magazine
972 Magazine is an independent, nonprofit online publication founded in 2010 by a collective of Palestinian and Israeli journalists. Its mission is to deliver in-depth reporting, analysis, and commentary from the ground in Israel-Palestine. Over the years, it has become known for its critical, investigative journalism—particularly during the ongoing war on Gaza. Among its most…
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Molly Crabapple: Art & Creativity on the Frontline
Molly Crabapple talks about the last fourteen years she spent covering the frontlines of global conflict and protest with her sketchpad, from Ukraine and Palestine to her father’s island, Puerto Rico and her hometown of New York City. She speaks about the power of art in the age of ubiquitous images, the threats of AI…
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Tatiana Bazzichelli: Female Power & Military Whistleblowing
Tatiana Bazzichelli: Female Power & Military Whistleblowing Military whistleblowing is one of the most difficult ways to expose wrongdoing and inform the public of unknown facts that need to be revealed. It is an act based on ethics, honesty and accountability that stands up to abuse, oppression and exploitation. Whistleblowers are people who want to…
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Adele Tulli’s film Real
FILM SYNOPSIS Everyday digital devices are no longer just tools; they have become gateways to a new multi-layered reality, an exponentially growing augmented universe that we experience largely without a physical connection. As human beings made of flesh, we now spend most of our time in a digital landscape, seeking happiness, wealth, relationships, knowledge, and…
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Tiziana Terranova: On Feminism After the Internet
The end or extinction of the Internet and the massive expansion of platforms has been accompanied for many by a loss of the emancipatory potential of digital connectivity and by an overall degradation of the quality of political communication. While platforms as control technologies are no simple tools of emancipation, however, digital communication is far…
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Haig Aivazian: World/AntiWorld
World/AntiWorld grapples with the ways in which our selves are collectively and individually constituted and de-constituted by the intersecting gazes of law, capital and machines. Structured around the three explosions that occurred at the Stade de France in November 2015, the narrative of this perofrmance takes on the history and futures of surveillance technologies and the…
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Dr. Francesca Sobande: Black Digital Currents
In this talk Francesca Sobande (Cardiff University) considers gendered and racialized currents of digital culture and technology. Focusing on different dimensions of digital delights and disturbances, Sobande explores experiences of digital creativity and collaborations related to Black life in Scotland, Wales, and beyond.
