About
I am a writer and PhD student in the Film and Media Studies Department at UC Santa Barbara. My research interests include: experimental and avant-garde media practices, poetry and poetics, policing and surveillance, race and its relation to aesthetics and power, and critical theory. I have a BA in Narrative Studies from the University of Southern California, where I studied narrative form and visual culture.
My email is mclanezach (at) gmail (dot) com
Education
In-progress: PhD, Film and Media Studies, University of California Santa Barbara
2024, MA, Film and Media Studies, University of California Santa Barbara
2018, BA, Narrative Studies, University of Southern California
Publications
2023, "January in Columbus," Quarter After Eight, Vol. 29, 2023
2021, Videography. Documentary Impulses. Our Manifesto, Contributing Artist, Editor.
2020, Quadrant Field: Marcos Lutyens, Editor, Apr 2020
2019, “How might a beginning be an opening?” Floating Projects Collective, Mar 2019
2018, “Crossing the Distance Between Reading and Speaking,” Floating Projects Collective, Oct 2018
2018, “Boundary of Invisibility: Degraded Images and Touchscreens,” in PLEXUS, Nov 2018
Exhibitions / Events
2021, Film Community Board, COPY, Web-based
2021, Avant-garde Short Film Festival, Big Day Film Collective, Philadelphia, USA
2021, poetic.GIF, Brick City Gallery at Missouri State University, USA
2021, Small File Media Festival, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, CA
2021, Cheap Freedom Club, Web-based
2021, "Excerpts from the Writing Machine," at Pillow Lava online lecture marathon, Web-based
2020, Film and Video Poetry Symposium, Los Angeles, USA
2020, Small File Media Festival, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, CA
2019, origins, Toby’s Feed Barn, Point Reyes, USA
2019, OPEN SPACE, Art Works Downtown, San Rafael, USA
2019, 10 Artists to Watch, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Los Angeles, USA
2018, Between Memory + Image, Floating Projects Collective, Hong Kong
2018, Bounce Haus, Private residence, Los Angeles, USA
2017, 100, Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles, USA