• Black Lives Matter Murals: Slow Looking with the BLM Murals from Downtown Raleigh, NC

    Author(s):
    Kelsey Dufresne (see profile)
    Date:
    2022
    Group(s):
    Global Digital Humanities Symposium
    Subject(s):
    Art, Digital humanities, Photography, Social justice
    Item Type:
    Presentation
    Meeting Title:
    Global Digital Humanities Symposium
    Permanent URL:
    https://doi.org/10.17613/zem4-kp29
    Abstract:
    Like many communities around the world, my own neighborhood was filled with murals and street art crafted by various artists, creators, and makers on brick and plywood. While made of various materials with different styles, these pieces of community-generated art all illustrate and amplify the important message that Black Lives Matter. In using photographs that I took throughout downtown Raleigh in the summer of 2020 and winter of 2021, I submitted and cataloged in the George Floyd and Anti-Racist Street Art Database -- and then uploaded them into Cogapp’s Slow Looking. Slow looking is seemingly most associated with art museums, but I want to challenge these associations – while retaining the intentionality of the experience, of sitting with a visual artifact at great length for more immersive experience. But instead of passively observing these visuals, how can we draw upon these image-experiences to pay attention to what and how we are seeing, thinking, and feeling? How do these images surprise, shock, challenge, ignite you?
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    Last Updated:
    1 year ago
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