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Mara Mills
@maramills.bsky.social
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prof of media, culture, and communication @ nyu
history & theory of digital media, electronics, computing
disability studies / disability arts
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& enjoy the most abundant seating in the V&A museum at the Design and Disability exhibition:
Photograph of two rooms in the Design and Disability exhibit at the V&A museum. One is painted bright orange, the other lime green, with a blue wall and large doorway connecting them. Wooden benches with listening and reading material are shown against the orange wall and near the passageway connecting the two rooms.
June 20, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Made it to Carolyn Lazard's Two-Way at Artists Space before the exhibition closed: two experimental films about race, childbirth, and healthcare, set in the Elmhurst Hospital simulation center. (Both are fictional: one is a fictional documentary, the other is a documentary of a medical simulation.)
Photograph of the Artists Space gallery entryway. A wall painted tomato red features the words Two-Way in white across the center. A windowed door to the left looks out on a 19th century cast-iron building of Soho New York. To the right a black pole and corridor lead to the exhibition space, a darkened set of two rooms where two films by Lazard are being screened on a loop.
May 15, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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so excited to pay a studio visit to Finnegan Shannon at EFA today!
www.studios-efanyc.org/member-artists
photograph of a blue wall with black lettering that says EFA Studios 7, next to which is a paper floorplan of the artist studios, including Finnegan Shannon's on the 7th floor.
April 28, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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As usual I loved the gorgeous sound descriptions by
@charleseppley.bsky.social last night at Air Change Per Hour, Anna RG's sold out performance at ISSUE on sound & accessibility "in the context of airborne safety." Compositions sculpted from air filter sounds, the breath of sick artists, and more.
Photograph of a darkened performance space, ISSUE Project Room in Brooklyn. One performer is lying on the floor in the far right corner and only part of his head and torso can be seen. Photo is taken from the second row, with a row of people sitting in front of the camera and others sitting on cushions on the ground. On the white wall in the background are screened two lines of text, describing sounds presumably being played in the room at the time. They state, "A second deep tone joins the first to create an unstable dissonant harmony. Higher whistle tones emerge in tone clusters, providing a chromatic glint. The white noise continues unabated."
April 25, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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Jonathan always laughed when I called him "my dear friend." My dear friend,
A photograph of a large screen hanging from the ceiling in a darkened room, with a table carrying assorted electronic equipment below it. The screen shows a zoom split screen, with Mara Mills on the left and Jonathan Sterne on the right. Jonathan is talking and Mara is listening with her chin resting on her hands. Jonathan is a middle-aged white man wearing a blue checkered shirt and large headphones and glasses, sitting in front of two posterboards with images that look like representations of sound waves in red and blue. A stuffed unicorn can also be seen in the distant background. Mara is a middle-aged white woman with brown curly hair pulled up, wearing a black shirt, and sitting in front of a white wall against which a piece of wood painted yellow is leaning.
March 22, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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Rereading the chapters now, and feeling depressingly close to 2020 in 2025. Discount code below and more details to come.
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January 26, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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How to be Disabled in a Pandemic is a collective research effort (w/ @harriskornstein.bsky.social among many others) to document ableism & disability activism in NYC during the first 4 years of COVID-19. Out next month from @nyupress.bsky.social -- a surprise of advance copies in yesterday's mail:
Photograph of the book How to Be Disabled in a Pandemic on a wood shelf next to a vase with red tulips. The book has a black paperback cover featuring a blue surgical mask printed with the title in red. The cover image was created by the artists The Brothers Sick, Ezra and Noah Benus. In the bottom right hand corner in white print are listed the editors' names: Mara Mills, Harris Kornstein, Faye Ginsburg, Rayna Rapp A photograph of two pages from the color insert in the middle of How to be Disabled in a Pandemic. Two dried mushrooms are being used as paperweights to hold the book open. On the left page is a photograph of an installation in Washington Square Park titled Curtain Armor by Chong Gu and Yin Q. The artwork was part of a vigil organized by Red Canary Song commemorating the 8 lives lost during a shooting at an Asian massage parlor in Atlanta on March 16, 2021. Curtain armor is composed of two massage tables, set in Washington Square, and surrounded by white curtains on which hang portraits. On the right hand page is a photograph titled View of Protest Traveling Down Park Row, taken by autistic photographer Christopher Lucka during the Black Lives Matter protests in New York City in summer 2020.
January 26, 2025 at 3:25 AM