{Sat01.02.202514:00 Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) / Miriam Makeba Auditorium}
https://transmediale.de/en/2025/event/a-genealogy-of-queer-media-tactics
Cait McKinney, David Isaac Hecht, Alex Martinis Roe, Alexandra Juhasz
“A group brought together by a shared interest in archival practices, this conversation will interrogate the interplay between tactics and strategy in relation to digital forms of queer activism from the 1980’s AIDS crisis up to the present day. The talk will trace how tactics animated by early forms of digital technology such as home-video, email attachments, and MySQL database systems have become reanimated through today’s networked systems. This includes lasting tactics such as the blackout: a tactic that began with Visual AIDS’s Day Without Art online blackout (1995–2000), which asked participating sites to adopt a small banner graphic and redact their websites for the day. Through the use of this, and other examples, the conversation will explore how the adoption of digital tactics has been applied by diverse queer communities to achieve strategic goals that enact meaningful social change.
The conversation will be followed by a screening of Alex Martinis Roe and Alexandra Juhasz’s new film, Media as Process. The film navigates the archives of Alexandra Juhasz to uncover feminist media methods developed within the NYC Community Video Movement in the 90s. Juhasz’s methods look to collectively address how women were affected by AIDS and to construct histories of queer-feminist media activism.”
