Max Levin’s “Truth Flickers” begins with an absent gaze into the night sky—a brief moment of unadulterated looking before he prods the more pernicious ways of seeing in Theo Anthony’s All Light, Everywhere (2021). Levin traces the film’s capture of Axon, developer and manufacturer of police-use body cameras, in its many unsettling manifestations. He pays special attention to the film’s idiosyncratic, sometimes parodic focal points: a shot of a marketing executive’s bum; an officer texting under the table during a police training, then deftly interweaves them with references ranging from Goethe to that infamous imaginary cat, inside a radioactive box. Levin returns to the night sky; we’re left with a complex constellation of what is captured within—and remains outside—of our own frames of vision.
Read the full article in print and online in X-TRA Volume 24 Number 1.
TONIGHT! X-TRA and MEMORY present a screening of All Light, Everywhere, followed by a conversation between Anthony and X-TRA Executive Director Nora N. Khan.
Thursday, August 4th, Doors at 7:00pm
Hosted by 2220 Arts + Archives
2220 Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90057
Get tickets here: http://ow.ly/jN4g50KbKcH
100% of each ticket price supports the publication of X-TRA Contemporary Art Journal, X-TRA Online, and future programming.
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At our upcoming screening of All Light, Everywhere (2021), director Theo Anthony and X-TRA Executive Director Nora N. Khan will discuss the film’s heavily researched, interactive web companion, All Light, Expanded. Anthony and Khan will consider the site’s structure, methodology, and rich references in context of current anti-surveillance discourse and growing public scholarship about technologies of capture.
Thursday, August 4th, 7:00pm
Hosted by 2220 Arts + Archives
2220 Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90057
100% of each ticket price supports the publication of X-TRA Contemporary Art Journal, X-TRA Online, and future programming.
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THANK YOU for coming to our party! We loved meeting new
X-TRA friends and readers, re-connecting with longtime X-TRA fans, and seeing so many of the journal’s contributors, past and present. We loved sweating it out with you, cheers-ing with you, showing off our new issue, and getting the word out about what X-TRA can do. And we’re just getting started 🎇
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UNBOXING + COVER SNEAK PEEK X-TRA VOLUME 24 NUMBER 1
Cover: Martine Syms, Threat Model and Mythiccbeing, both works, 2018. Installation view, Uncanny Valley: Being Human in the Age of AI, de Young Museum, San Francisco, February 22, 2020–June 27, 2021. Courtesy of the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco. Photo: Randy Dodson.
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UNBOXING + COVER SNEAK PEEK X-TRA VOLUME 24 NUMBER 1
Cover: Martine Syms, Threat Model and Mythiccbeing, both works, 2018. Installation view, Uncanny Valley: Being Human in the Age of AI, de Young Museum, San Francisco, February 22, 2020–June 27, 2021. Courtesy of the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco. Photo: Randy Dodson.
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The long-awaited Spring issue of X-TRA, Volume 24 No. 1, has arrived safe and sound at our office/studio/archive/petting zoo in Atwater Village! Stay tuned for one of X-TRA’s famous unboxing videos 📦 by Managing Editor Kate Rouhandeh.
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