Saturday, March 1, 2014

READING LIST

Alfredo Cramerotti, Aesthetic Journalism: How to inform without informing

Aesthetic Journalism in Practice: Manifesta 8 and the chamber of public secrets
http://alcramer.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/mconnollyvariantdec2010.jpg



 Miwon Kwon,  The Wrong Place
http://www.scribd.com/doc/19773064/The-Wrong-Placemiwon-Kwon


Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin, Unconcerned But Not Indifferent
http://www.broombergchanarin.com/unconcerned-but-not-indifferent-text/


Sean Snyder, Marriot Hotel, Islamabad / 2008 
https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/documentary

Ariella Azoulay, The revolution is the language, the photographs are its writing paper
http://cargocollective.com/AriellaAzoulay/following/posts/AriellaAzoulay/The-Revolution-is-the-Language

David Levi Strauss, The Documentary Debate
http://nbrokaw.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/the-documentary-debate-aesthetic-or-anaesthetic-excerpt1-2.pdf


Ariella Azoulay, What is photography?


Ariella Azoulay, Potential History


Hito Steyerl, The Wretched of the screen
http://thecomposingrooms.com/research/reading/e-flux_Hito%20Steyerl_15.pdf

Susan Meiselas, Body on a Hillside

Geoffrey Batchen, Looking Askance




Friday, February 28, 2014

How are artists redefining their role in the 21st Century?


Dean Carol Becker
http://arts.columbia.edu/dean-carol-becker-gives-talk-artists-public-intellectuals-mcmaster-university

Monday, February 24, 2014

An article titled: "Good-bye, Public Life"

MUST READ (<-- link) writing called "Good bye, Public Life" by Alec Baldwin a celebrity A human being

The article is not really about Alec Baldwin. I want to say so much about this, but in short, this article is an unedited look at the reality of mass media and the society that creates and consumes it today. In many ways, this writing, I think, is the essence of aesthetic journalism. Putting a mirror to society.

What do you think?

-Michelle

Saturday, February 22, 2014

In defence of Western Journalists in Africa

africanarguments.org/2014/02/21/in-defence-of-western-journalists-in-africa-by-michela-wrong/