Presentations
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Oct. 18. Who We Are: Spotlighting Diverse Stories in Government Documents. Academic Library Association of Ohio Annual Conference: "Libraries Speak Up! Advocate. Collaborate. Educate." Columbus, OH.
Check out the poster here: ALAO 2019.
Sept. 25-27, 2019. Static Movement: Spatial Density in In Kyung Kwon’s The Other’s Room 1. University College Dublin: Exploring the Transnational Neighbourhood: Integration, Community, and Co-Habitation. Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland.
Abstract
In Kyung Kwon’s work depicts the artist’s native Seoul through collage and traditional Korean painting. She examines her city as it has changed before her eyes throughout her life and fixes that experience of change in the form of large scale collage. Her depictions of the city are at once familiar and unfamiliar, comforting and off putting, accessible and inaccessible. These sensations of juxtaposition provide fertile ground for an examination of the contemporary city as heterotopia. Her particular experience of the city plays out in the collage of old and new materials to create a layered experience of space and time in the urban environment. These multiple memories of space compete and harmonize to construct a universalism grounded in the particular experience of one woman moving through time and space. Her collage is dense with content and adrift in the world of the picture plane only tenuously permanent and held in place by the scaffold of newly created linear forms made with traditional materials and methods. By applying discussions of urbanism and the experience of the city in Foucault and Jacobs and by borrowing from analysis of Dada collage, the artist’s particular experience of the density of time and space in the urban environment is made universal. By focusing in particular on 2016’s The Other’s Room 1, a cry for individual (not universal) human-centered design comes out in the scale and combination of elements in the work. August 6-7. What's in a Name (Authority)? Trans Identities and Name Authority Records. Poster presentation at IDEAL '19. Columbus, OH.
Journalistic and Copy Editing best practices are shifting or have shifted to state that it is always incorrect to include a trans person’s legal name unless you’ve spoken to the person in question and received permission. This shift aligns with the way trans people as a community have lobbied to be represented. Why haven’t cataloging best practices made a similar change? This poster looks at the apparent point of conflict between discoverability and trans inclusion and hopes to destabilize the notion that these are mutually exclusive.
Find the poster here. June 4, 2019. A Librarian's Field Guide to Religious Studies. Poster presentation at the University of Washington Capstone Night. Seattle, WA.
Presented MLIS Capstone in a poster session.
April 29, 2019. Navigating Workplace Culture for MLIS Students. University of Washington iSchool Careers Brown Bag. Seattle, WA & Remote.
Spoke to current iSchool students about evaluating potential worksites and tips for navigating workplace issues at an internship, DFW, or job on a pannel with Helene Williams (iSchool Senior Lecturer) and Kelli Yakabu (iSchool Student).
Event Posting. Mar 1, 2019. Digital Femme, Real Pain: Amalia Ulman’s Excellences & Perfections. University of North Texas: Body, Place, Identity Conference, Materiality and Perfection session. Denton, TX.
February 17, 2019. Performing Femininity and Pain: Amalia Ulman’s Excellences & Perfections. Festival of Original Theatre, Feminisms #2 panel. Toronto, ON, Canada.
Abstract
The mediation of an artist's performance of the self is always fertile ground for discussion, and this is especially so when the performance is mediated through the Internet. This paper explores the Internet's unrivaled potential for self-performance and self-othering in Amalia Ulman's Instagram performance in concert with Diana Taylor's percepticide theory to investigate the transformative potential of the body as it performs femininity through careful efforts to block the viewer’s access to the life behind the image both in the images of the performance themselves and through the interactive element of the medium in the comments section. Her constructed story of moving to the big city, becoming an Insta it-girl, and the changes she "inflicts" on her body over the course of her character's rise and fall surface the extremes imposed on the body of women to be a particular kind of object for visual consumption and the ways in which those extremes are reinforced by the audience. By exploring the self-inflicted violence of performing femininity through the selfie camera lense, this paper touches on theories of performance, communication, gender, and storytelling. Furthermore, this paper surfaces questions of permanence and the digital record of life in the social media age. Amalia Ulman’s performances draw special attention to the ever-shifting construction of identity in the Internet age, which is all the more important because of her focus on the pain of constructing a particular image of feminine identity. We construct identities for ourselves on live social media, and Ulman’s intervention this construction of digital femininity draws attention to the annihilation of the life behind the image. |
Publications
Rainbow Roundtable News
Eames, L. (2019, Nov 2) “Gender, Sexuality, and the APA 7th Edition.” Rainbow Round Table News. https://www.glbtrt.ala.org/news/archives/4361. University of Chicago Public Art Site
Eames, L. (2016) “Sorel Etrog." http://bit.ly/SorelEtrog. Eames, L. (2016) “Pulcinella II." http://bit.ly/Etrog-Pulcinella2. Eames, L. (2016) “Mother and Child." http://bit.ly/Etrog-MotherAndChild. Eames, L. (2016) “Haskell Hall Totem Pole." https://arts.uchicago.edu/public-art-campus/browse-work/haskell-hall-totem-pole. In 2016, I had the opportunity to do some freelance writing for the University of Chicago Public Art website as part of a project to expand on and deepen the information present there. Smithsonian Libraries Blog
Eames, L. (2014) “Mary in Miniature.” In Unbound: Smithsonian Libraries Blog. Retrieved from: http://bit.ly/MaryMiniature. As part of my 2014 internship at the Cooper Hewitt, I investigated a book of hours from their special collections. This project culminated in a blog post. A Librarian's Field Guide to Religious Studies
(MLIS Capstone, unpublished) Inspired by my work assisting with collection development for Comparative Religion at the University of Washington's Suzzallo Library, this project hopes to provide a collection of resources for analyzing works in the field of Academic Religious Studies for inclusion in a collection. It is divided into six sections: a picture of the field & top terms, awareness strategies, online resources, print resources, and analyzing what you already have. Theology, while there is some discussion in the first section, is explicitly not the focus. Margins of Modernity: the Embodied Text and Visual Identity in Artists’ Manifestos (MA Thesis, unpublished) By comparing the presentation and page design of the Manifesto Antropófago and the Manifiesto del Sindicato de Obreros Técnicos Pintores y Escultores, this paper examines the degree to which each text reaches its audience. By asking whether the work is transmitted in a way that would reach the target audience in the context both of publication and presentation, this paper sheds light on the role of good design in information dissemination and access. Hermeneutics, Him-eneutics, Them-eneutics: Toward a Gender Inclusive Theology of The Trinity (BA Thesis, unpublished) Positioned in doctrinal history and contemporary liturgical rhetoric, this paper examines the language used to describe the Trinty. I argue that by carefully reevaluating the masculinity of God-talk, it is possible to find sites for dismantling gendered heirarchy in church spaces in keeping with tradition and orthodoxy. |