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Kai Joy

Kai Ajamu Joy is a student, prose-poet, and net artist based out of Chicago, Minneapolis, and Oberlin. She attends Oberlin College, where she studies creative writing. She is a biracial transgender woman who reads, watches, writes, and creates in order to make sense of the messiness of identity and subjecthood. She is grateful for all of the opportunities she has been given. 

“Lend Your Ear to the Dead:” Paul Anton Smith on Mining Cinematic History for his New Film

“Sitting in a movie theater focuses our attention onto one thing; it overwhelms the senses in such a way that the experience is close to hypnosis, freeing the unconscious: their story, on-screen, becomes our story.” Filmmaker Paul Anton Smith (editor of Christian Marclay’s The Clock) shares his love of cinema and the process behind the masterful editing in his montage film Have You Seen My Movie?

Ending Adam: Fighting the Myth of the Human Condition

The “human being” is an idea rather than a material reality or truth. This idea has turned out to be foundational for violent and oppressive ideologies. Art, particularly film, however, can be the perfect tool to reconfigure and destabilize the human and his violent domination, writes Kai Joy of the moving image works selected for Transhuman/Posthuman/Antihuman, a new playlist in the Walker’s Bentson Mediatheque. What happens when the static identities that tie us down are dissolved before our eyes?