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Barbara Lattanzi

Barbara Lattanzi is an artist whose current practice involves the construction and application of "cinema software". She has written and applied digital code to a range of projects including: motion picture riffing and improvisation ("Unwriting"), remediation of particular "structuralist" films of the 1970s ("HF Critical Mass"), reexamination of the sing-along genre as ideology critique ("C-SPAN Karaoke"), perceptual experimentation that includes extended-duration structures for the moving image ("Optical De-dramatization Engine").

Barbara Lattanzi currently teaches in the Expanded Media Division of the School of Art and Design, Alfred University (Alfred, New York). https://www.wildernesspuppets.net

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Barbara Lattanzi is an artist whose practice involves constructing and applying "cinema software"; she has written and applied digital code for projects including motion-picture riffing and improvisation (Unwriting), remediation of particular "structuralist" films of the 1970s (HF Critical Mass), reexamination of the sing-along as ideology critique (C-SPAN Karaoke), and perceptual experimentation with extended-duration moving-image structures (Optical De-dramatization Engine). She teaches in the Expanded Media Division of the School of Art and Design at Alfred University, Alfred, New York; website: http://www.wildernesspuppets.net.

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"Barbara Lattanzi." Video History Project, Experimental Television Center, 2011. https://www.videohistoryproject.org/barbara-lattanzi.

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