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DESCRIPTION:Kara Keeling\n	Associate Professor\, Cinema Studies\, University
  of Southern California\n	\n	On “Digitopia”: Blackness\, Technology\, and th
 e Digital Frame\n	Abstract: Questions concerning technology have long been 
 part of Black film studies. Indeed\, as John Akomfrah points out in “Digit
 opia and the Spectres of Diaspora\,' the extent to which anti-black racism
  is inherent in the film apparatus itself has been of concern to those fil
 m and media scholars and makers who have sought to craft theories\, analys
 es\, films and videos capable of transforming existing race relations by r
 evealing another organization of things within the cinematic.⁠ For Akomfra
 h\, the history of debate\, analysis\, experimentation\, and failure withi
 n analogue media forms\, such as film and video\, that raise the possibili
 ty that 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 tod
 ay’s digital media technologies and is fulfilled by them. In this talk\, I
  consider Akomfrah’s proposition concerning the potential of digital media
  technology. While Akomfrah reads the preoccupation with the technologies 
 of media making within the history of Black film praxis as the presence of
  a yearning for today’s digital technologies\, I argue that digital media 
 technologies\, 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 cellu
 loid and other analogue media technologies\, digital media intensifies ele
 ments constitutive of the cinematic by making them more broadly perceptibl
 e. As Akomfrah points out\, digital media technologies make the mode of pr
 oduction of audio-visual images more accessible to filmmakers whose access
  to image-making has been structurally limited. New possibilities for crea
 tive exploration and imaginative experimentation\, including new strategie
 s for improvisation with audio-visual images\, open up for those filmmaker
 s because the barriers to production are less formidable than with the mor
 e capital intensive technologies. At the same time\, the greater accessibi
 lity of digital media technologies makes it possible to renew an interroga
 tion of 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:/ahcs/channels/event/kara-keeling-digitopia-blackn
 ess-technology-and-digital-frame-ahcs-speaker-series-241276
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