Deborah Ligorio, Guided Meditation, 2016, after.video, VOLUME 1, ASSEMBLAGES, Open Humanities Press.

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Deborah Ligorio, Guided Meditation, 2016, after.video, VOLUME 1, ASSEMBLAGES, Open Humanities Press.

after.video, edited by Oliver Lerone Schultz, Adnan Hadzi, Pablo de Soto and Laila Shereen Sakr

Deborah Ligorio, Guided Meditation, 2016, after.video, VOLUME 1, ASSEMBLAGES, Open Humanities Press.
Deborah Ligorio, Guided Meditation, 2016, after.video, VOLUME 1, ASSEMBLAGES, Open Humanities Press.

Theorising a World of Video, after.video realizes the world through moving images and reassembles theory after video. Extending the formats of ‘theory’, it reflects a new situation in which world and video have grown together.

This is an edited collection of assembled and annotated video essays living in two instantiations: an online version – located on the web at http://after.video/assemblages, and an offline version – stored on a server inside a VHS (Video Home System) case. This is both a digital and analog object: manifested, in a scholarly gesture, as a ‘video book’.

We hope that different tribes — from DIY hackercamps and medialabs, to unsatisfied academic visionaries, avantgarde-mesh-videographers and independent media collectives, even iTV and home-cinema addicted sofasurfers — will cherish this contribution to an ever more fragmented, ever more colorful spectrum of video-culture, consumption and appropriation…

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#care #differ #resilience #somatheory #ecofeminism #darkecology #organicheritage #syntheticecology #worldsbeyondscience #extrosciencefiction

[The Eponym] (2014-21), an interdisciplinary practice exploring the relationships between bodies, technology, ecology, and systems of care. Through artistic research, workshops, collective practices, and speculative approaches, the practice creates spaces for experimenting with alternative ways of sensing, thinking, and relating to the world.