Marlon Riggs (Color Adjustment)

hi..here's a little background on a video we will be screening on acclaimed videographer and documentarian Marlon Riggs on the history of the African-American image in American television in the 20th century.

"The video Color Adjustment, which aired on public television stations in the early 1990s, was an interpretive look at the images of African-Americans in fifty years of American television history. Using footage from shows like Amos 'n' Andy, Julia, and Good Times, Riggs compared the grossly stereotyped caricatures of Blacks contained in early television programming to those of recent, and presumably more enlightened, decades."


http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/R/htmlR/riggsmarlon/riggsmarlon.htm

Another web source for bio info:
http://www.queerculturalcenter.org/Pages/Riggs/RiggsBio.html

In this video, Riggs also includes quotes by writer James Baldwin. Here are a few biographical web sites

From Pegasos - A literature related site in Finland
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/jbaldwin.htm

From University of Illinois in Chicago
http://www.uic.edu/depts/quic/history/james_baldwin.html

-sam smiley

Representation, Race, and Gender in Second Life

From New World Notes:
http://www.nwn.blogs.com

Here's New World Notes' Martin Luther King Report and comments on living in a different skin for a day
http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2007/01/open_forum_king.html



and an interview with Eboni Khan
http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2005/03/the_freeform_id.html


more articles on Avatars and Identity
http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/avatars_and_identity/index.html

-sam smiley (Jean-Claude Cleanslate on Second Life)

Media Artist web sites

This week in our class, we talked about media artists. Here are a few web sites we viewed:

Bill Viola, video artist
Denise Marika, video and installation artist
Nam Jun Paik, Fluxus artist



in addition, here's a great web site for the history of experimental video:
Experimental Television Center Video History Page

Intro and Hello

Hi! Welcome to the blog for Power of the Image. We are a group of teachers who are researching Media Literacy, as well as the Power of the Image in society. We will update this as frequently as possible.