This issue of Afterimage (Volume 48, no. 3) begins with reports (by Rachel Schaff and Robert Albrecht) about two more organizations that pivoted their annual conferences to online delivery with apparent success: the Society for Cinema and Media Studies and the Media Ecology Association. With yet another wave of COVID-19 ravaging many parts of the United States this summer, mostly due to the Delta variant, and the threat of another fall/winter surge as activities move indoors, the efforts made by organizations such as these to adapt and improve virtual offerings will surely be replicated in the foreseeable future. These events, as you will read, might even serve as exemplars of diverse programming and global accessibility.
Interviews with two contemporary artists follow. Marcus Civin speaks to multimedia artist and educator Hồng-Ân Trương who talks about “the myth of American nativism…where these narratives reify the dominant white supremacist ideological structure and capitalist...