EXTRACTION: screening of “Rare Earth” and artist talk by Elizabeth Knafo

Big Factory/Industrial area in the background with the title Extraction in the foreground

Tuesday evening, 5:30-7:30, in the Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) 108 at UC Santa Cruz March 6, 2017  An EXTRACTION Event Join us from 5:30 -7:30 pm for an evening of Elizabeth Knafo’s film “Rare Earth” + artist talk   ______________   Elizabeth Knafo is a filmmaker whose work engages issues of extraction, materialisms, and social and…Continue Reading EXTRACTION: screening of “Rare Earth” and artist talk by Elizabeth Knafo

EXTRACTION: artist talk by Subhankar Banerjee, “Why should I care about the Arctic?…”

Big Factory/Industrial area in the background with the title Extraction in the foreground

Tuesday evening, 5:30-7:30, in the Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) 108 at UC Santa Cruz February 21, 2017  An EXTRACTION Event Join us from 5:30 -7:30 pm for Subhankar Banerjee, “Why should I care about the Arctic?: Politics of Extraction & Justice in the Near North.” This artist talk is part of EXTRACTION, a research program exploring…Continue Reading EXTRACTION: artist talk by Subhankar Banerjee, “Why should I care about the Arctic?…”

EXTRACTION: DECOLONIAL VISUAL CULTURES IN THE AGE OF THE CAPITALOCENE

Tower shooting flames

EXTRACTION: DECOLONIAL VISUAL CULTURES IN THE AGE OF THE CAPITALOCENE All events are on Tuesday evenings, 5:30-7:30, in the Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) 108 at UC Santa Cruz Extraction designates capitalism’s fundamental logic of withdrawal—of value, nutrients, energy, labor, time—from people, lands, culture, life-forms, the elements, without corresponding deposit (except as externalities of non-value…Continue Reading EXTRACTION: DECOLONIAL VISUAL CULTURES IN THE AGE OF THE CAPITALOCENE

Filmmaker Wu Wenguang Seminar | Chinese Independent Documentary Film

Man in black and white imaging in the background with the text "he forgot about the cows, forgot about his son. at the bottom.

THE FOLK MEMORY PROJECT & INDEPENDENT CHINESE DOCUMENTARY  Seminar with Wu Wenguang, Zhang Mengqi, Zhang Ping, and Liu Xiaolei  Tuesday November 22,2016  7-9 PM, Communications 139  Please RSVP to Prof. Yiman Wang (yw3@ucsc.edu) to reserve a place in the seminar. co-sponsored by Porter College, Film + Digital Media, the Institute for Arts and Sciences, and Cowell College.  Wu Wenguang…Continue Reading Filmmaker Wu Wenguang Seminar | Chinese Independent Documentary Film