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Moving Abu Dhabi by Roberto Lopardo with the FIND team
While Design Director/Senior Producer for FIND, Sherri Wasserman designed this thirteenth manifestation of Roberto Lopardo's Mappings project in collaboration with Lopardo and the FIND software development team. An interactive video archive of 1440 videos - one for each minute of the 24 hours within which Lopardo documented Abu Dhabi, Moving Abu Dhabi originally launched as an online 24 hour event. The archive now exists online in full for investigation, manipulation, and open-ended exploration. Responsively built, it was effectively designed to work at laptop, tablet, or mobile size.
Another Kind of Love: A Performance of Prosthetic Politics
by Debra Levine
ABSTRACT:
Ray Navarro is a Chicano artist, media maker and AIDS activist who created a photographic triptych titled Equipped, assisted by photographer and fellow AIDS activist, Zoe Leonard, as part of a gallery exhibition “An Army of Lovers: AIDS and Censorship” (1990). Equipped is Navarro’s last work, — completed two weeks before his death due to complications from AIDS. While making Equipped, Navarro had been blind, partially deaf and incapacitated with peripheral neuropathy due to the toxic effects of AIDS medications. Leonard, along with other members of Navarro’s ACT UP affinity group, acted as a human prosthetics, enabling him to make art and write theory up until his death.
Networks within AIDS activist culture en-abled members, dis-abled with physical complications from HIV and AIDS, to retain their own creative, sexual and political identities rather than relinquish those capacities to the process of dying. The practices and modes of knowledge transmission effectuated through these affinity groups offer an alternative approach to the current crisis of safe-sex recidivism in the GLBT (Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender) community.
Project Collaborators
Debra Levine is an Assistant Professor of Theatre at NYU Abu Dhabi, and affiliated with The Hemispheric Institute for Politics and Performance and NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts Department of Undergraduate Drama. Debra received her Ph.D and MA in Performance Studies from NYU, an MFA in Directing from Columbia University, and a BA in English from the University of Pennsylvania. She has taught theater, performance studies and non-fiction writing at Barnard College, NYU and the Cooper Union and was a 2010 and 2011 NEH Vectors Fellow at the University of Southern California Institute for Multimedia Literacy. Debra’s scholarly work explores the intersection between performance, politics and new media/digital humanities through the lens of feminist and queer theory, disability studies, and visual studies. With Pamela Cobrin, Debra co-edited the 2012 issue on “Aging and Performance” for Women and Performance: a journal of feminist theory, and edited the 2008 issue on “Wasting.” Debra has contributed articles to GLQ, Women & Performance, e-misférica, Theatre Research International, and The Disability Studies Quarterly, and essays for Performance Studies: The Key Concepts, and Burning Down the House: Downtown Film, Video and TV Culture: 1975-2001. Currently Debra is finishing Demonstrating ACT UP: a web-based monograph with multimedia essays and archival documentation of historical demonstrations and oral histories of AIDS activism. Debra has directed four documentary films and many theater and performance art productions, including the Bessie-award winning To Us At Twilight by Alyson Pou. Debra was a producer and programmer for Creative Time and a member of ACT UP New York from 1988-1993.
Sherri Wasserman is a fellow at metaLAB Harvard and Director of Experience Design for Unified Field. She joined UFI’s team in Fall 2014, after a multi-year role as Design Director and Senior Producer for a multimedia research project supported by NYU Abu Dhabi. Previous to FIND, she spent six years leading strategy and digital integration for Thinc Design, an award-winning exhibition design studio. Her projects with Thinc ranged from media prototypes to large-scale institutions, and included the National September 11 Memorial Museum, Infinite Variety for the American Folk Art Museum, Rivers of Ice for the MIT Museum, and Gapminder Game with the Gapminder Foundation. Prior to joining Thinc, she worked for photographer Bruce Weber as a curator, publisher, archivist, and registrar for dozens of exhibitions and publications. Her experience also includes stints in archives, urban planning, film production, freelance design, and museum education. She received a Bachelors of Arts in both history and art history/studio arts from Oberlin College and a Masters degree in new media design from the Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) at New York University.
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