Krista Geneviève Lynes
Biographic Data
| ID | 4258926 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Krista Geneviève Lynes |
| GIVEN NAMES | Krista Geneviève |
| FAMILY NAME | Lynes |
| SIGNATURE | LYNES K G |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Global Pictures
This essay examines the role played by political and activist media, as well as media infrastructures and platforms, in creating solidarity or continuity between the Arab Spring, the Occupy Movement, Indignados and the ‘Printemps Erable,’ among others. It critiques the overvaluation of social media in organizing protests and creating solidarity between social movements, demonstrating the renewal of discourses of the “global village” on which such…
Prismatic Media, Transnational Circuits
What are the political and aesthetic dimensions of video art, documentary, and global cinema in contemporary image culture? Lynes makes visible how sites of political struggle, exploitation, and armed
Visual Currencies
This article explores how artists and documentarists wrestle with representing the conditions and causes of sexual exploitation in India’s red-light districts. It compares three works: Ross Kauffman and Zana Briski’s popular documentary Born into Brothels (2004) and the artist Elahe Massumi’s multichannel video installations The Hijras (2000) and A Kiss Is Not a Kiss (2000). The analysis examines how each work defines a specific site of sexual ex…
Perversions of Modesty
This article examines the ethics of observation in Lars von Trier's The Five Obstructions, and particularly how the fantasy of ‘the most miserable place on earth’ acts to frame a transnational politics of representation. At stake here are critical ethical questions about how subjects are encountered, what historical, social and political conditions frame image‐making, and what shape witnessing relations take through the mediation of visual techno…
Visual Currencies
This article explores how artists and documentarists wrestle with representing the conditions and causes of sexual exploitation in India’s red-light districts. It compares three works: Ross Kauffman and Zana Briski’s popular documentary Born into Brothels (2004) and the artist Elahe Massumi’s multichannel video installations The Hijras (2000) and A Kiss Is Not a Kiss (2000). The analysis examines how each work defines a specific site of sexual ex…
Perversions of Modesty
This article examines the ethics of observation in Lars von Trier's The Five Obstructions, and particularly how the fantasy of ‘the most miserable place on earth’ acts to frame a transnational politics of representation. At stake here are critical ethical questions about how subjects are encountered, what historical, social and political conditions frame image‐making, and what shape witnessing relations take through the mediation of visual techno…
Perversions of Modesty
This article examines the ethics of observation in Lars von Trier's The Five Obstructions, and particularly how the fantasy of ‘the most miserable place on earth’ acts to frame a transnational politics of representation. At stake here are critical ethical questions about how subjects are encountered, what historical, social and political conditions frame image‐making, and what shape witnessing relations take through the mediation of visual techno…
Visual Currencies
This article explores how artists and documentarists wrestle with representing the conditions and causes of sexual exploitation in India’s red-light districts. It compares three works: Ross Kauffman and Zana Briski’s popular documentary Born into Brothels (2004) and the artist Elahe Massumi’s multichannel video installations The Hijras (2000) and A Kiss Is Not a Kiss (2000). The analysis examines how each work defines a specific site of sexual ex…
Prismatic Media, Transnational Circuits
What are the political and aesthetic dimensions of video art, documentary, and global cinema in contemporary image culture? Lynes makes visible how sites of political struggle, exploitation, and armed
Global Pictures
This essay examines the role played by political and activist media, as well as media infrastructures and platforms, in creating solidarity or continuity between the Arab Spring, the Occupy Movement, Indignados and the ‘Printemps Erable,’ among others. It critiques the overvaluation of social media in organizing protests and creating solidarity between social movements, demonstrating the renewal of discourses of the “global village” on which such…
Political science (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Cinema and Media Studies (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Media studies (2 works) · Politics (2 works)