KEVIN MCMAHON grew up in the 9th most miserable town in America, has worked at the Southern California Institute of Architecture since 1984, and writes about books, pictures, movies and places. Contact him at kevin@wordscreenpark.com
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2012 Video consulting for architecture collection The vorticist time machine app
Movies of/in places Words become things (in general) Some recent place compilation movies Voices from the first century of talkie prophylaxis The SCI-Arc Media Archive
2011 Presenting the paper Michelangelo's Marble Blog: epigraphic walls as pictures and samples Introduction to moving image research for architectural historians Earning a Master of Arts degree in Moving Image Archive Studies
2010 Online archives of Iranian protest videos The Los Angeles State Historic Park project Open-air movie exhibition traditions in the 21st century Assisting on the Hypercities Digital Roman Forum project Six conversations on Flann O'Brien Assisting with the L.A. Rebellion project Presenting the paper Archival Walls to Archival Screens: some post-classical precedents John Ruskin on film restoration Towards a completer Gertrude Stein
2009 Ronald Johnson’s twigged, branchy writing Cavafy’s world Remembrance & divination in Ezra Pound Fans & funerals: the crowd reconstituted at open-air big-screen events
2008 John McLaughlin of Dana Point Lorine Niedecker of Lake Koshkonong
2005 Savannah Band is waiting for you, American Library consulting for the School of Architecture, University of Limerick
2002 Accreditation liaison Sleep to Revolt: a diary of watching some Warhol movies From my Warhol Diaries diary I walk the line: Barnett Newman in Philadelphia
2001 Hello Kitty of quartz Exene spotted at rite: the L.A. Phil. Stravinsky festival
2000 Coordinating the Association of Architecture School Libraries Conference in Los Angeles Displacements, furnishings, houses and museums: six motifs and three terms of connoisseurship Cobra woman A-Z
1999 Forming: the early days of L.A. punk 1998 Fundraising for the Kappe library
1997 72.93 hours of Fassbinder on the wall
1995 Kappe library guides
1993 Copy editing for Verso Press
1992 Queer space is dead Observations from the gender-free zone: the 5th California Women In Environmental Design conference The dialog begins in the wake of the unrest & Faxitecture dossier
1991 Abduction from the seraglio: the social critique of contemporary architecture culture Because the door Is there: humane and punitive architecture
1990 An image by Bellocq
1989 Assisting on the The Getty Research Institute recon project
1988 Presenting movies and videos at SCI-Arc Editing the SCI-Arc Newsletter
1984 Joan Armatrading’s Track Record Earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in classics Managing the library at SCI-Arc
1978 Presenting movies at DeKalb and Urbana-Champaign
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