Media Studies faculty co-authored an article for the current issue of the journal, Portable Gray, from University of Chicago Press in association with the Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry.
Professor Melissa Friedling and Lana Lin contributed an essay titled “Pareidolic Cinemas” to Portable Gray’s Spring 2024 issue on “Paraäcademia.” The authors constructed a crossword puzzle as an eccentric device for considering pareidolia – the tendency to discern images in randomness – as a decolonial survival strategy in the films of three women/non-binary artists.
Read more about it here.