Chris Straayer
Biographic Data
| ID | 1246908 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chris Straayer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chris |
| FAMILY NAME | Straayer |
| SIGNATURE | STRAAYER C |
| AFFILIATIONS | New York University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4783-0605 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Queerly Comprehensible: The Nonbinary Art of Kris Grey
This essay argues that nonbinary artist Kris Grey deploys a genderqueer aesthetic to undo taxonomy. Their ceramic sculpture and performance art cross and diffuse binaries through reversals, implosions, conversations, and invitations. I contextualize Grey's art within the work of other contemporary artists who have creatively investigated and engineered gender, sex, and sexuality. Following Vittorio Gallese, I argue that Grey's embodied images hap…
Trans men’s stealth aesthetics: Navigating penile prosthetics and ‘gender fraud’
This article examines trans commercial production of penile prosthetics, the efficacy of such products in personal and sex-segregated spaces, and their negative valence in the public sphere. Responding to his own experience of gender dysphoria, Transthetics founder Alex designs and produces products for the reparative and enabling embodiment of trans men. Penile prosthetics reflect the longstanding tension between aesthetics and function in the h…
Reply to Discussions of Phantom Penis: Extrapolating Neuroscience and Employing Imagination for Trans Male Sexual Embodiment
In this reply essay, I engage in dialogue with the authors of the eight papers submitted in response to my paper, “Phantom Penis: Extrapolating Neuroscience and Employing Imagination for Trans Male Sexual Embodiment.” I deeply appreciate the respondents’ contributions: a panoply of academic and professional perspectives to this discussion of the potential of phantom penis for transgender men’s embodiment and sexuality. Lehman points us to the iro…
Phantom Penis: Extrapolating Neuroscience and Employing Imagination for Trans Male Sexual Embodiment
This article investigates transgender men's phantom penis experience with respect to several contexts: historical reportage and medical explanations of phantom limbs and phantom penises following amputation; body dysphoria and "melancholic strength"; all renditions of trans penis including the testosterone-morphed clitoris; phenomenology and prosthetic incorporation; the neurobiology of metoidioplasty and phalloplasty; and neuroscience research o…
Queer Film and Video Festival Forum, Take Three
Other| January 01 2008 Queer Film and Video Festival Forum, Take Three: Artists Speak Out Thomas Waugh; Thomas Waugh Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Chris Straayer Chris Straayer Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2008) 14 (1): 121–122. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-2007-025 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Thomas Waugh, Chr…
Queer Film and Video Festival Forum, Take Two
Other| October 01 2006 Queer Film and Video Festival Forum, Take Two: Critics Speak Out Chris Straayer; Chris Straayer Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Thomas Waugh Thomas Waugh Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2006) 12 (4): 599. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-2006-005 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Chris Straayer, Thomas …
The She-man: Postmodern bi-sexed performance in film and video
Journal Article The She-man: Postmodern bi-sexed performance in film and video Get access Chris Straayer Chris Straayer Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 31, Issue 3, Autumn 1990, Pages 262–280, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/31.3.262 Published: 01 October 1990
Sexuality and Video Narrative
Essay| May 01 1989 Sexuality and Video Narrative Chris Straayer Chris Straayer Chris Straayer is an assistant professor in the department of media arts at the University of Arizona. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (1989) 16 (10): 8–11. https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.1989.16.10.8 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter L…
Lyn Blumenthal, 1948-1988
News| September 01 1988 Lyn Blumenthal, 1948-1988 Ken Kirby, Ken Kirby Ken Kirby directs the American Film Institute Video Festival. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Chris Straayer Chris Straayer Chris Straayer teaches in the media arts program at the University of Arizona in Tucson. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (1988) 16 (2): 3. https://doi.org/10.15…
Women in the Director’s Chair
News| May 01 1987 Women in the Director’s Chair Chris Straayer Chris Straayer Chris Straayer is a Ph.D. candidate in radio, TV, and film, currently writing her dissertation on video art. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (1987) 14 (10): 4. https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.1987.14.10.4 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter…
Rubber Snakes & Paper Tigers
News| February 01 1987 Rubber Snakes & Paper Tigers: The afi national video festival Chris Straayer Chris Straayer Chris Straayer is a Ph.D. candidate in radio, TV, and film, currently writing her dissertation on video art. This article was made possible in part by a Dissertation Year Grant from Northwestern University. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (1987) 14 (7): 3–4. https://doi.org/10.1525…
I Say I Am
Other| November 01 1985 I Say I Am: Feminist Performance Video in the ’70s Chris Straayer Chris Straayer Chris Straayer is a Ph.D. candidate in film at Northwestern University and director of distribution at the Video Data Bank at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (1985) 13 (4): 8–12. https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.1985.13.4.8 Views Icon Views Article cont…
Phantom Penis: Extrapolating Neuroscience and Employing Imagination for Trans Male Sexual Embodiment
This article investigates transgender men's phantom penis experience with respect to several contexts: historical reportage and medical explanations of phantom limbs and phantom penises following amputation; body dysphoria and "melancholic strength"; all renditions of trans penis including the testosterone-morphed clitoris; phenomenology and prosthetic incorporation; the neurobiology of metoidioplasty and phalloplasty; and neuroscience research o…
The She-man: Postmodern bi-sexed performance in film and video
Journal Article The She-man: Postmodern bi-sexed performance in film and video Get access Chris Straayer Chris Straayer Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 31, Issue 3, Autumn 1990, Pages 262–280, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/31.3.262 Published: 01 October 1990
I Say I Am
Other| November 01 1985 I Say I Am: Feminist Performance Video in the ’70s Chris Straayer Chris Straayer Chris Straayer is a Ph.D. candidate in film at Northwestern University and director of distribution at the Video Data Bank at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (1985) 13 (4): 8–12. https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.1985.13.4.8 Views Icon Views Article cont…
Women in the Director’s Chair
News| May 01 1987 Women in the Director’s Chair Chris Straayer Chris Straayer Chris Straayer is a Ph.D. candidate in radio, TV, and film, currently writing her dissertation on video art. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (1987) 14 (10): 4. https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.1987.14.10.4 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter…
Rubber Snakes & Paper Tigers
News| February 01 1987 Rubber Snakes & Paper Tigers: The afi national video festival Chris Straayer Chris Straayer Chris Straayer is a Ph.D. candidate in radio, TV, and film, currently writing her dissertation on video art. This article was made possible in part by a Dissertation Year Grant from Northwestern University. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (1987) 14 (7): 3–4. https://doi.org/10.1525…
Lyn Blumenthal, 1948-1988
News| September 01 1988 Lyn Blumenthal, 1948-1988 Ken Kirby, Ken Kirby Ken Kirby directs the American Film Institute Video Festival. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Chris Straayer Chris Straayer Chris Straayer teaches in the media arts program at the University of Arizona in Tucson. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (1988) 16 (2): 3. https://doi.org/10.15…
Sexuality and Video Narrative
Essay| May 01 1989 Sexuality and Video Narrative Chris Straayer Chris Straayer Chris Straayer is an assistant professor in the department of media arts at the University of Arizona. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (1989) 16 (10): 8–11. https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.1989.16.10.8 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter L…
The She-man: Postmodern bi-sexed performance in film and video
Journal Article The She-man: Postmodern bi-sexed performance in film and video Get access Chris Straayer Chris Straayer Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 31, Issue 3, Autumn 1990, Pages 262–280, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/31.3.262 Published: 01 October 1990
Queer Film and Video Festival Forum, Take Two
Other| October 01 2006 Queer Film and Video Festival Forum, Take Two: Critics Speak Out Chris Straayer; Chris Straayer Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Thomas Waugh Thomas Waugh Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2006) 12 (4): 599. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-2006-005 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Chris Straayer, Thomas …
Queer Film and Video Festival Forum, Take Three
Other| January 01 2008 Queer Film and Video Festival Forum, Take Three: Artists Speak Out Thomas Waugh; Thomas Waugh Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Chris Straayer Chris Straayer Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2008) 14 (1): 121–122. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-2007-025 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Thomas Waugh, Chr…
Trans men’s stealth aesthetics: Navigating penile prosthetics and ‘gender fraud’
This article examines trans commercial production of penile prosthetics, the efficacy of such products in personal and sex-segregated spaces, and their negative valence in the public sphere. Responding to his own experience of gender dysphoria, Transthetics founder Alex designs and produces products for the reparative and enabling embodiment of trans men. Penile prosthetics reflect the longstanding tension between aesthetics and function in the h…
Reply to Discussions of Phantom Penis: Extrapolating Neuroscience and Employing Imagination for Trans Male Sexual Embodiment
In this reply essay, I engage in dialogue with the authors of the eight papers submitted in response to my paper, “Phantom Penis: Extrapolating Neuroscience and Employing Imagination for Trans Male Sexual Embodiment.” I deeply appreciate the respondents’ contributions: a panoply of academic and professional perspectives to this discussion of the potential of phantom penis for transgender men’s embodiment and sexuality. Lehman points us to the iro…
Phantom Penis: Extrapolating Neuroscience and Employing Imagination for Trans Male Sexual Embodiment
This article investigates transgender men's phantom penis experience with respect to several contexts: historical reportage and medical explanations of phantom limbs and phantom penises following amputation; body dysphoria and "melancholic strength"; all renditions of trans penis including the testosterone-morphed clitoris; phenomenology and prosthetic incorporation; the neurobiology of metoidioplasty and phalloplasty; and neuroscience research o…
Queerly Comprehensible: The Nonbinary Art of Kris Grey
This essay argues that nonbinary artist Kris Grey deploys a genderqueer aesthetic to undo taxonomy. Their ceramic sculpture and performance art cross and diffuse binaries through reversals, implosions, conversations, and invitations. I contextualize Grey's art within the work of other contemporary artists who have creatively investigated and engineered gender, sex, and sexuality. Following Vittorio Gallese, I argue that Grey's embodied images hap…
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