Abigail (Gail) Derecho is a first-year tenure-track faculty member at Columbia College Chicago, in the Department of Liberal Education, Program in Cultural Studies. She is a Marxist cultural theorist specializing in new media and issues of race, gender, and nation. She is also a writer and producer of “media theater,” a style of theater that combines live performance with multiple media (film, video, IM chats, blogs, radio shows, digitized photos, email, etc.). She was born in the tropics (Makati, Philippines) and raised near the beach (Lomita, CA, just east of Redondo Beach, in the South Bay of Los Angeles). In addition to those two sites, she has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area; Brooklyn, NY; Paris, France; Chicago, IL; and (during the month of January 2008) Marfa, TX.
Hi Gail,
Congratulations on your appointment at the BCNM. It will be nice to have you here.
I wish to share with you (in regard to soap operas and archiving their appllications), my art work (1982+) SEXUAL JEALOUSY:The Shadow of LOVE. for which I recorded/collected examples of sexual jealousy that I found in T.V. soap operas. I incorporated (in collaboration with a psychologist jealousy specialist ) the theme in an interactive performance, that was performed at the Pauley Ballroom(1984). And as well, I documented/expanded upon the quick time examples as a hypercard interactive piece that was exhibited at Minneapolis ISEA and in San Francisco in the 80’s.
If you google “Sexual Jealousy” you may find more particurs or have access to JSTOR.
Looking forward to your response.
Sonya Rapoport