May 2012
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Women's Studies Quarterly: VIRAL →
Volume 40, Numbers 1&2 Spring/Summer 2012 Edited by Patricia Clough & Jasbir Puar
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MEDIA IN OUR IMAGE
Women’s Studies Quarterly asked Johanna Blakley to provide a multimedia piece for the “Alerts & Provocations” section of the June 2012 issue. The theme? VIRAL. The editors asked Blakley to expand upon a TED talk she’d given on Social Media & the End of Gender. In both, Blakley explores the implications of women’s demographic dominance of social media platforms all around the world. The...
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Irene Belknap: Dressed in Words
When I mentioned the Media In Our Image project to German-born artist Irene Belknap, she said that I must take a look at a series of her paintings that she calls “Dressed in Words.” She mentioned being bemused by the profound difference between her perception of people and the stories they would tell about themselves. These portraits interweave text and image in order to create a...
FLICKR: Media In Our Image
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Capturing Character in Renaissance Portraiture
The Renaissance Portrait from Donatello to Bellini, a recent exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, was very influential in my thinking about the Media In Our Image project. I was a bit overwhelmed by the first gallery, which was filled with stark side profiles of wealthy men and women. I learned that, in the early stages of secular portraiture, painters were constrained by...
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Veils of Protest
Once we settled on creating a “veil of words” in order to express a portrait subject’s interests and beliefs, we started looking around for some good examples. It turns out, you can’t do a Google image search that mentions “veils” and “words” without turning up some fascinating portraits of veiled women protesters. This one (above) was particularly...
April 2012
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Laurie Simmons: Woman as Object
Laurie Simmons has of late become known as HBO GIrls’ Lena Dunham’s mom. But Simmons is famous in her own right since the 1970s as a conceptual artist and photographer. She stages scenes featuring toys, dolls, dollhouses and other objects that speak nostalgically and disturbingly to the role of women in society.
Her photograph, “Walking Gun” (1991), is one of a series...
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