he/him/his
Studying Internet culture & web histories
at UW-Madison (ABD).
I do most of my posting at @[email protected], and use this account for academic conferences (to avoid spamming other timelines)
Profile Pic: smiling man in a blue shirt in front of a backdrop of green trees
Cover photo: The Grand Tetons mountain range
| Primary Account | https://mastodon.benpettis.ninja/@bpettis |
| Website | https://benpettis.com |
My favorite thing to do while building the website has been to just hit the “Random Video” button and be taken to the expanse reaches of Wendy’s collection.
Video artist Wendy Clarke's projects such as the Love Tapes, New York Tapes, and Growing Up Gay: The Out Tapes continue to be influential with their elevation of individual voices. Through her process, Clarke invited participation that gave individuals agency and never reduced them to stereotypes. Clarke's work represents a powerful archive of individual voices from marginalized communities.
https://wendyclarke.wcftr.commarts.wisc.edu/exhibits
And more exhibits are coming! We’ll be writing more and gathering work from our excellent advisory committee in the coming weeks!
https://wendyclarke.wcftr.commarts.wisc.edu/videos/19?t=280
This love tapes participant really talked through the “ABCs” of love!
“This website is not just for researchers. It also an introduction to Wendy’s work”
I’m so glad that Ashton Leach has a chance to speak - she’s worked extensively with Wendy’s tapes and has been amazing at highlighting and elevating unique voices from within the collection. She is brilliant and has been absolutely great at “putting emotional savvy into the site”
In my completely unbiased opinion*, it’s a pretty great looking website!
*I was the primary web developer for the project
“This was a really big grant that was really meaningful to us, and which still is.”
Yes, Matt St. John does so much it really does feel like there are two of him sometimes!
And finally to bookend the panel, my great colleagues Eric Hoyt and Ashton Leach will share some specific examples of love tapes, as well as make the official “public debut” of our online version of Wendy Clarke’s collection: https://wendyclarke.wcftr.commarts.wisc.edu
Video artist Wendy Clarke's projects such as the Love Tapes, New York Tapes, and Growing Up Gay: The Out Tapes continue to be influential with their elevation of individual voices. Through her process, Clarke invited participation that gave individuals agency and never reduced them to stereotypes. Clarke's work represents a powerful archive of individual voices from marginalized communities.