Our Friend the Computer
Our Friend the Computer is a podcast hosted by Camila Galaz and Ana Meisel highlighting lesser-known histories of computing. Across three seasons, OFtC explores niche histories which challenge popular narratives of computing and the World Wide Web and is a sister project of the Media Archaeology Lab (MAL) at the University of Colorado.
https://www.ourfriendthe.computer/
https://www.mediaarchaeologylab.com/
Superkilogirls
Superkilogirls is a collaboration between Camila Galaz, Ana Meisel and Lua Vollaard, researching the material infrastructures of computing, its entanglement with women’s labour, and how the historical marginalisation of these efforts reverberate now. Superkilogirls currently working with the Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam under Ramon Amaro, curator of Digital Culture.
Millenium Film Journal
I am a contributing editor of the Millennium Film Journal, the longest-running publication devoted to artists’ moving image and experimental film, in print since 1978. I focus my work on artists and filmmakers working with archives, cultural media reinterpretation, personal histories, and on stories and creators from Latin America.
Recent Writing
Talks
- ‘Time, After Time; or how to work with history’, article, Index Journal no.5 Liquid Time, edited by Verónica Tello, 2024 (forthcoming)
- ‘First Words’, essay, National Communications Museum, Melbourne, Australia, 2024
- ‘Crossroads of Memory': Lotty Rosenfeld’, review, Millennium Film Journal no. 79 ‘Re:presentation’, 2024
- ‘REDES’, essay, Unikornios Precarios, Atlas Menor book series, ed. Sebastian Lambert and Diego Morera, pub. Bartlebooth, 2023
- ‘Field Trips: Currents Review’, Millennium Film Journal no. 77 ‘Rifts’, 2023
- ‘REDES: bread and justice, peaches and bananas’, Thresholds Journal no.50 ‘Before/After’, 2022, MIT Press
- Digital Glitch and Chaos, DEMO Festival, New Museum and Montez Press Radio, Water Street Projects, New York, 2024
- Our Friend the Computer Zine Launch, online discussion, rhizome.org
- Artist Talk, Seminario Arte y Memoria: Experiencias de historia deslocalizada, Universidad Católica, Santiago, Chile, 2023
- Artist Talk, Australia Council for the Arts, 2022
- The Future Doesn’t Know Later, Artist interview series, 2021
- Online Engagement – Learnings, Pitfalls and Triumphs, NETS Victoria curatorial intensive, 2020
- Longitudes, Latitudes and Legacies, Panel discussion for Channels Festival, NGV, 2019
- Time, After Time: A Re-enactment Workshop, Workshop series for Channels Festival, 2019
- Questioning Existence with the Subjunctive (Spanish Demystified), Writing & Concepts Lecture Series, National Gallery of Victoria, 2019