Annotation Exchange #2: A Reading Group on Narrative Change

Time: Wednesday 8 May 2024, 4:00-6:00 pm (HK time)

Place: The C-Centre, NAH 313 Humanities Building, CUHK

Format: Hybrid-for registered online attendees the ZOOM link will be sent via email prior to the event

Please register via this link:

https://forms.office.com/r/2cYu7F7TuJ

by Sunday, 5 May 2024

Contact: com-dns@cuhk.edu.hk

The Digital Narratives Studio (DNS) at the School of Journalism and Communication at the Chinese University of Hong Kong launched a new reading group format, the Annotation Exchange (AnnEx), that puts authors, texts, and readers in a productive dialogue.

Participants are invited to read newly published inspiring texts (academic, journalistic, artistic etc) or even unpublished drafts of leading thinkers and practitioners in the field of Narrative Change.

Following our successful inaugural event in April, we would like to invite you for our 2nd edition of the Annotation Exchange, which will take place on 8 May 2024 with a text by feminist writer and film scholar Dr. Alexandra Juhasz.

• A two-part conversation between Pato Hebert and Alex Juhasz on PerpiTube: Repurposing Social Media Spaces (2011) and Pandemic Media (2022)

Alexandra Juhasz will be present at the C-Centre at CUHK to engage in a dialogue with the readers/participants in small, collaborative groups, but the event will also be offered as hybrid mode for remote participants.

More about the text

The chosen text is a transcribed two-part conversation between Pato Hebert and Alexandra Juhasz, looking at PerpiTube: Repurposing Social Media Spaces (2011) and Pandemic Media (2022) as something like lenticular lenses (a process used by Pato in other works), whereby “viewers move in front of the image, different layers appear, animating space. Such layers enable a viewer to trace the presence and disappearance of bodies or beings within a single site.” Holding the two sites of close thinking about illness and digital media in one look allows them to encounter the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and its media historically, forensically, and emotionally: a palimpsest of images, memories, and theories.

PerpiTube: Repurposing Social Media Spaces (2011) was an on and offline art show about YouTube, co-curated by Pato Hebert and Alexandra Juhasz, while Pandemic Media (2022) was an undergraduate course taught by Alexandra Juhasz.

More about the speaker

Dr. Alexandra Juhasz is a Distinguished Professor of Film at Brooklyn College, CUNY. She makes and studies committed media practices that contribute to political change and individual and community growth.

She is the author/editor of scholarly books on AIDS including AIDS TV (Duke, 1995) and We Are Having this Conversation Now: The Times of AIDS Cultural Production (with Ted Kerr, Duke, 2022); Really Fake (with Nishant Shah and Ganaele Langlois, Minnesota, 2021); and YouTube (Learning From YouTube, MIT Press, 2013). J

Juhasz is also the producer of educational videotapes on feminist issues from AIDS to teen pregnancy as well as the feature fake documentaries The Watermelon Woman (Cheryl Dunye, 1996) and The Owls (Dunye, 2010). She writes about her cultural and political commitments in scholarly and more public platforms including Hyperallergic, BOMB, MS, X-tra, and  Lamda Literary Review. Her edited anthology of community-produced poetry about Fake News, My Phone Lies to Me was published in Fall 2022 by punctum press.

🕙 Wednesday 8 May 2024, 4-6 pm (HK time) 📍 The C-Centre, NAH 313 Humanities Building, CUHK