K. D. Davis
Author and Award-Winning Filmmaker
The close examination of communication artifacts can reveal much about elements of our culture and values. In this presentation, K. D. Davis analyzed videobased communications used to help train Bank of America employees. Based upon her article in the current issue of Afterimage, Ms. Davis exposed the grammar of thes e communications, provided an analytical critique of information technology within the corporate environment, and examined the implications of the imaginary subject and the virtual body. Her talk was amply illustrated with videos obtained from the B of A corporate archives.
K. D. Davis is an award-winning filmmaker who has worked with both video and multimedia. Much of her creative work is characterized by an acerbic wit that exposes the humor in commonplace situations that surround us. Her recent work, Over the Hed ge, explored a highly-eccentric suburban American environmental artform: the topiary garden and its avid practitioners. This aired on PBS's P.O.V. series.
Friday November 12
1 Leconte
11:40-1:00
co-sponsored by the School of Library and Information Studies and the School of Journalism
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