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X-WR-CALNAME:AFTERLIVES: Screening + Q&A with filmmaker Kevin B. Lee & arti
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DESCRIPTION:Afterlives is a desktop documentary that critically engages wit
 h the historical and digital traces of extremist propaganda\, questioning 
 how images of violence circulate\, mutate\, and persist. The film moves be
 tween virtual investigations and real-world encounters with artists\, acti
 vists\, and researchers who seek to resist the toxic effects of such media
 . At its core is the figure of Medusa—a victim of violence whose gaze tu
 rned viewers to stone—invoked as a symbol of both the dangers and transf
 ormative potential of looking. From museum archives to AI-generated recons
 tructions\, the film explores how power structures\, spanning from the col
 onial past to the digital age\, shape the way we see and remember violence
 . Can we ever truly look without being complicit? And is there another way
  to care?\n\nThis screening will be followed by a Q&A with Kevin B. Lee an
 d Morehshin Allahyari\, moderated by Rebecca Turner. \n\nKevin B. Lee is a
  filmmaker and media researcher who has produced nearly 400 video essays e
 xploring film and media. His award-winning Transformers: The Premake intro
 duced the “desktop documentary” format. His work has screened at the M
 useum of Modern Art\, Berlinale\, and International Film Festival Rotterda
 m\, as well as websites such as The New York Times and Mubi. He is the Loc
 arno Film Festival Professor for the Future of Cinema and the Audiovisual 
 Arts at Università della Svizzera italiana (USI). He co-leads the Swiss N
 ational Science Foundation research project “The Video Essay: Memories\,
  Ecologies\, Bodies.”\n\nMorehshin Allahyari (Persian: موره‌شین
  اللهیاری‎)\, is a Bay Area based Iranian-Kurdish artist\, using
  3D simulation\, video\, sculpture\, and digital fabrication as tools to r
 e-figure myth and history. Through archival practices and storytelling\, h
 er work weaves together complex counternarratives in opposition to the las
 ting influence of Western technological colonialism in the context of MENA
  (Middle East and North Africa). Morehshin has been part of numerous exhib
 itions\, festivals\, and workshops around the world including Venice Bienn
 ale di Architettura\, New Museum\, The Whitney Museum of American Art\, Po
 mpidou Center\, MoMa\, Victoria and Albert Museum\, Queens Museum\, and Mu
 seum of Modern Art\, Taipei. She has been an artist in residence at Carneg
 ie Mellon University’s STUDIO for Creative Inquiry\, Autodesk Pier9 Work
 shop in San Francisco\, the Vilém Flusser Residency Program for Artistic 
 Research in association with Transmediale\, Berlin\, Eyebeam’s one year 
 Research Residency\, Pioneer Works\, and Harvest Works. She has been featu
 red in Art21\, The New York Times\, BBC\, Huffington Post\, Wired\, Nation
 al Public Radio\, Parkett Art Magazine\, and Al Jazeera\, among others. Mo
 rehshin’s work has been the subject of critical analysis across books\, 
 academic articles\, and dissertation chapters of over 100 publications. Sh
 e is the recipient of the Creative Capital Award (2025)\, The University o
 f California\, Berkeley Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Award (2024
 )\, The United States Artist Fellowship (2021)\, The Joan Mitchell Foundat
 ion Painters & Sculptors Grant (2019)\, The Sundance Institute New Frontie
 r International Fellowship (2019)\, and the Leading Global Thinkers of 201
 6 award by Foreign Policy magazine. Morehshin is an assistant professor of
  Digital Media Art at Stanford University.\n\nThis event is sponsored by t
 he Digital Aesthetics Workshop in the Stanford Humanities Center.\n\nVISIT
 OR INFORMATION\nOshman Hall is located within the McMurtry Building on Sta
 nford campus at 355 Roth Way. Visitor parking is available in designated a
 reas and is free after 4pm on weekdays. Alternatively\, take the Caltrain 
 to Palo Alto Transit Center and hop on the free Stanford Marguerite Shuttl
 e. If you need a disability-related accommodation or wheelchair access inf
 ormation\, please contact Julianne White at jgwhite@stanford.edu. This eve
 nt is open to Stanford affiliates and the general public.
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LOCATION:McMurtry Building\, Oshman Hall
SUMMARY:AFTERLIVES: Screening + Q&A with filmmaker Kevin B. Lee & artist Mo
 rehshin Allahyari
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 nd-conversation-with-filmmaker-kevin-b-lee
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