Autoethnographic Art & Multimedia

Audio, visual, and multimodal expressions of autoethnography.

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Emotional Research: Performing Autoethnography at My Late Father’s Village

All Content Autoethnographic Art & Multimedia Education From the Editors More Reflections on Method Volume 2, Issue 3 (2022)

·November 6, 2022·13 min read

"I had not been aware that this emotional research was also performing autoethnography, collecting memories from the field"

SEE ME, Windows to the Self of the Performer-Autoethnographer

Lee Campbell·

All Content Autoethnographic Art & Multimedia More Reflections on Method Volume 2, Issue 3 (2022)

·July 14, 2022·21 min read

"'SEE ME, Windows to the Self of the Performer-Autoethnographer' explores the question, 'What can I learn about myself by making artwork as autoethnography'?

The Pandemic Nature Project, Filmed Vignettes of Life During COVID

David Heineman·

All Content Autoethnographic Art & Multimedia Climate Change Special Issue, 2022 Special Issues Volume 2, Issue 3 (2022)

·September 2, 2022·2 min read

"The Pandemic Nature Project is a 35-minute short autoethnographic film that traces a series of personal experiences, emotional reactions, and critical responses to COVID across a series of short vignettes."

The Twerking Academic: “Four Women,” a Multimedia Autoethnography

Shanita Mitchell·

All Content Autoethnographic Art & Multimedia Volume 2, Issue 2 (2022)

·April 22, 2022·3 min read

I pay homage to Nina Simone’s already iconic and thorough exploration of stereotypes by setting the project to the song “Four Women.”

"A Passion Undivided," painting by Blaine A. White inspired by choreographer Pina Bausch

A Poem & Dance for Pina Bausch: “Love Sweet Love”

Jerrice J. Baptiste·

All Content Autoethnographic Art & Multimedia Autoethnographic Poetry Volume 3, Issue 1 (2023)

·January 5, 2023·3 min read

"I danced each morning with Pina Bausch. I became her pupil lifting my leg up in the air like a flamingo except feeling more awake than I’ve ever been."

Autoethnographic Art and Essay: Ode to Bygone Birds of Childhood, Part 2 – Automatons and Mutants

Terry Graff·

All Content Autoethnographic Art & Multimedia Autoethnographic Essays Autoethnographic Writing Climate Change Special Issue, 2022 Special Issues

·May 16, 2022·15 min read

"As the world’s bird populations decline precipitously, will the many winged creatures we knew as children live only in the mists of memory?"

Autoethnographic Poem: A Blue Transhistoric

Daze Jefferies·

All Content Autoethnographic Art & Multimedia Autoethnographic Poetry Climate Change Special Issue, 2022 Special Issues

·September 14, 2022·3 min read

"This autoethnographic poem resembles a wave: coming, going, history, hereafter...an endless exchange."

Autoethnographic Art and Essay: Ode to Bygone Birds of Childhood, Part 1 – Drawings

Terry Graff·

All Content Autoethnographic Art & Multimedia Autoethnographic Essays Climate Change Special Issue, 2022 Special Issues

·March 31, 2022·13 min read

"In retrospect, it was inevitable that birds and machines would converge in my work as a life-long exploration and expression of the relationship between nature and technology through the creation of avian cyborgs, the genesis of which can be traced back to my early drawings of robots and of the bygone birds of my childhood."

“Double Consciousness as a Black American”: New Video from The Twerking Academic

Shanita Mitchell·

All Content Autoethnographic Art & Multimedia Volume 2, Issue 3 (2022)

·September 2, 2022·3 min read

"In the newest video from The Twerking Academic, I explore how the summer of 2020 slammed me back into an awareness of my own double consciousness as a Black American."

Photo of man sitting in front of projected illustration of dying woman

Multimedia Autoethnography: “Drifting,” an Exploration of Sibling Loss

William Doan·

All Content Autoethnographic Art & Multimedia Autoethnographic Writing Volume 1, Issue 1 (2021)

·August 5, 2021·7 min read

"I'm not exactly sure when I decided to make a performance piece about my sister's traumatic brain injury and death. In fact, I'm not sure there ever was a single moment of decision. Her story had become public in many ways, from online care sites to prayer chains to social media posts from family and friends. Her story was being performed out in the world before I started telling it."