1. #Ev-Ent-Anglement 1Noise SeminarUtrecht UniversityAugust, 2014

2. To Perform a Theory of Feminist Digital Praxis:Cutting through the Noise of the Digital Self 3. To CutA causal procedure and act of decisionSarah Kember and Joanna ZylinskaLife After New Media (MIT Press: 2012) 4. To PasteA causal procedure and act of decisionSarah Kember and Joanna ZylinskaLife After New Media (MIT Press: 2012) 5. To CutCuts are part of the phenomena they helpproduce.Karen BaradMeeting the Universe Halfway 6. Loop! 7. Loop Can the loop be a new narrative form appropriatedfor the computer age?It is relevant to recall that the loop gave birth notonly to cinema but also to computer programing.Programming involved altering the linear flow ofdata through control structures such as if/thenand repeat/while.Lev Manovich, The Language of New Media (MIT: 2001) 8. Assemblage 9. A. Juhasz, Digital AIDS Documentary: Webs,Rooms, Viruses & Quilts, Blackwell Anthology ofDocumentary, Juhasz and Lebow, eds. 10. little parts of me 11. just for the man 12. fragments of myself 13. Cut myself back together withKnowledge/context/analysisDepth/community/politics 14. #Ev-ent-anglementImperatives 1-3 To Cut well:#cut/paste+bleed To Break Past Binaries:#create/assemble+seep To Use Objects that Matter:#find/link+entangle 15. Your ScriptAs I talk, please #cut/paste+bleed into the #ev-ent-anglement from the archive of yourself.Go to http://ev-ent-anglement.com and watch the ev-ent-anglement unfold.Better yet, build yourself in:Find or make images, links, words, that express your responses, connections, ideas, and questions.Everything you paste needs this hashtag to be seen: #eventanglementFeel free to share #emotion-al-entaglements.Or pieces of your #em-body. Gone full circle, mark the #ev-ent-loop.Remember, youll be distracted. But the talk isnt going anywhere, and you can find it on the #ev-ent-anglementfor review or remixPlease try to entangle at minimum twice during the talk. 16. To Cut WellThe photographic act, both as technique andethical imperative, serves as an active practice ofcutting through the flow of mediation.Time is indivisible, continuous and unknowable, atleast to the intellect. In order to know it, we must cut.Kember and Zylinska 17. What does it mean to cut well?Todays #ev-ent-anglement:links a distinctly feminist armature to Kemberand Zylinskas more minimal or abstractframework ofphotography as a form of differentiation andlife making 18. K & Zs Imperativeto get outside oneself and to be technical, thatis, to bring things forth, to create, is perhapsalso an ethical injunction to create well, even ifnot a condition of ethical behavior. 19. Online Feminist Spaces 20. little feminist digital objects 21. Cut, Link & Assemble! 22. #Cut/Paste+BleedPlease refer to your script.I request that you join the #ev-ent-anglement atleast twice during this talk.I hope we might do media studies in a form that isnot only analysis but is simultaneously critical andcreative. (K & Z, xvii) 23. Editingstraddles the line between art and craftValerie Orpen, Film Editing: The Art of the Expressive 24. The first advertising silent filmLumiere Brothers (1896): Washing Up 25. Every stop is linked to another go 26. Film Editing:The Art of the ExpressiveWhere the cut allows for pruning, curtailing,rejecting, removing the join permits addingand accreting. (Valerie Orpen, Film Editing) 27. The art of cinema is in the shot 28. To Editgives the director an almost limitless freedomof movement once he can split up action intosmall, manageable units while also conveyinga sense of time to the spectator.The Technique of Film Editing, Karel Reisz and Gavin Millar 29. Dialectical MontageWe have now only to mention a large number ofother dialectics that are quite difficult to categorize:those concerning dialogue, the style of acting, thedecor, make-up, and costumeseverything, inshort, relating to the explicit content of images andsounds. For structures almost always seem to occurin dialectical formthat is to say, a structurenecessarily evolves within a parameter defined byone or more pairs of clearly delineated poles.Noel Burch: Theory of Film Practice 30. This dissonance, this formal affront, thisattack on spatio-temporal coherencehypermediacy the collage of effect of mediaforms and styles (K & Z, 8) 31. Spatial MontageFeminism on YouTube 32. Spatial MontageThe avant-garde strategy of collage reemergedas the cut-and-paste command, the most basicoperation one can perform on digital data.Lev ManovichEditing at its most Eisensteinian enlivens deadthings through the clash of the cut .Alex Juhasz 33. Chris Vargass green-screens himself onto backgrounds fromLiberaces private life, Liberacen (2011) 34. "Your Nostalgia Is Killing Me" (2013), a poster designed forposterVIRUS by Vincent Chevalier and Ian Bradley-Perrin 35. The Cut-Up Method of Brion GysinCut ups are for everyone. Anybody can makecut ups. It is experimental in the sense of beingsomething to do.William S. Burroughs 36. HyperlinkingThe acceptance of hyperlinking in the 1980scan be correlated with contemporary culturessuspicion of all hierarchies, and preference forthe aesthetics of collage in which radicallydifferent sources are brought together within asingular cultural object.(Manovich, 76) 37. All writing is in fact cut-upsBurroughs 38. Circles & Lines 39. Man with a Movie CameraWomen with her Editing Scissors 40. The Fall of the Romanov Dynasty(Esfir Shub, 1927) 41. Cutting 42. Ab-jectingRepelling, rejecting; repelling itself, rejectingitself. Ab-jecting.Julia Kristeva, 1980 43. Link MeAs a substance that flows from the bodilydepths out, menstrual blood is carefullymanaged, concealed, contained and increasinglysuppressed through the use of hormonalcontraceptives. We can read the management ofthis flow of blood as a means of working on thebodys boundaries, that is, of demarcating thebodys inside from its outside.Emilia Sanabria, The Body Inside Out: MenstrualManagement and Gynaecological Practices in Brazil 44. Metaphoric Glueforces, intensities, and energies notsubstances, effecting the complex, randomprocesses not predictable statesDiana Coole and Samantha Frost, IntroductionNew Materialisms: Ontology, Agency and Politics 45. #Ev-ent-anglement, Imperative 4What kind of politics could embrace partial,contradictory, permanently unclosedconstructions of personal and collective selvesand still be faithful, effectiveand, ironically,socialist-feminist?Donna Haraway, A Cyborg Manifesto 46. An argument for pleasure in the confusion of boundaries andfor responsibility in their construction, Donna Haraway 47. For #Ev-ent-anglement 1We cut/paste+bleed binariesArt/CraftLong take/MontageOn/Off screenInvisible/VisibleDull matter/Vibrant lifeLoop/LineHierarchy/FlatPolitics/FeelingsPast/PresentPresent/FutureCut up/HappeningTime/SpaceVirality/DurationCritique/Create 48. Intra-actionThere is no between as such, human and non-humanorganisms and machines emerge onlythrough their mutual co-constitution.Karen Barad 49. Loops & LinesA line both divides things and creates spacesthat we can imagine we can be in.Collectives seem to have lines in the sense ofbeing modes of following: to inhabit a collectivemight mean to follow a line.Sara Ahmed, Queer Phenomenology 50. Circles and LoopsThe circle of consciousness-raising and the videos it inspired directly contestthe patriarchal, linear project of industrial production with its predictableplots (and products). In First Day FSW, 1980, that years body of studentsintroduce themselves to each other, and us, by passing the camera around thecircle. Julie James. I am seed. I am heart. I am healing. I am power. I amsmooth. I am alive. I am dark red. I am pulsing. I am magic. I am clearing. I amself. And so on. After the tape ends with the group joining together in arousing class portrait culminating with a chant, Feminist Studio Workshop,1979-80, and a loud YEAH! a quick fade to black bumps us against anunanticipated snippet of yet another circle. We accidentally fall into the lastfive minutes of a consciousness-raising meeting of a group of deaf women(perhaps the other tape was taped over this), who speak together (we hearthrough an interpreter while they sign) about the role of affection in theirlives, and end their meeting (and tape) with a group (circle) hug.Juhasz, Views of the Feminist Archive 51. Circles and Loops, LoopedThe loop and the sequential progression, donot have to be considered mutually exclusive. Acomputer program progresses from start to endby executing a series of loops.Lev Manovich 52. photos 53. tweets 54. Blog posts 55. videos 56. essays 57. purchases 58. Thumbs up 59. Composting the NetShu Lea Cheang, 2012 60. The dump of the Internet 61. #Ev-ent-anglement, Directive 5,Cut Our Feminist Objects WellEvoke the possibility of doing justice to andwith objects of study.The disciplinarity of Womens and GenderStudies proceeds precisely from its formalizationof the political as the value that differentiates itfrom traditional fields of study.Robyn Wiegman, Object Lessons 62. Obscure Feminist ArchiveThe Watermelon Woman (Cheryl Dunye, 1995) 63. Beyond Self-Expressiononce such self-visualization and expression iswidely available, how do we strategize ouractivism around the new forms, links, andactions that said expression takes up? And, mostcritically, what else might be needed beyondspeaking and spreading our ideas throughdigital realist representations?Juhasz, Ceding the Activist Digital Documentary, in Nash,Hight and Summerhayes, eds., New Documentary Ecologies 64. Cut into ArtLowly bits of evidencelike our tweets, reposts,thumbs up, photographs, and cat gifsdo notbecome a digital documentary, do not haveenough meaninguntil they are edited, by adocumentarian, and thereby organized into anargument; until they are aestheticized by beingmade into art.Juhasz, Ceding the Digital Documentary 65. Conclusion In what ways can digital practices participatein the distribution of affects and feelings as astrategy of resistance and subversion? How can emotions, once shared, facilitatepolitical action, recognition, and dialogue, andbring about social change? 66. Conclusion, AgainFor now and into the future, I am committed toexperimenting with #ev-ent-anglements, madeby cutting/pasting+bleeding ourselves, co-producedwith purpose and commitment, inshared spaces and times both on and off line.Together, today, and always also later on theInternet, we might make things that couldinspire change, but might themselves be thething that is change in the making.