Reparative Redaction [electronic resource].

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In this wide-ranging new essay, media scholar Shannon Mattern describes numerous artistic approaches to redaction, treating it as a capacious practice with diverse applications across media, contexts and scales. Unlike ellision or erasure, redaction embeds a latent capacity for redemption: across words, images, sounds and structures, the act of disappearing or censoring always shows its own operation, thus opening new paths towards repair and healing. Mattern surveys multiple areas of practice, considering how artists, musicians, architects, archivists, librarians and technologists might all learn from one another about redaction as a field of possibility.
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Shannon Mattern
Martina Bacigalupo
M. NourbeSe Philip
Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich
Stephanie Syjuco
Kat Mustatea
Elizabeth Alexander
Ryan Maguire
Ellen Gallagher
Jeremy Mickel
Glenn Ligon
Winnie Soon
Julie Bargmann
Forest Young
Reginald Dwayne Betts
Titus Kaphar
Carlos Soto-Román
Steve McQueen
John Baldessari
William Wiebe
Benjamin Tiven
Bryce Wilner