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Kate Durbin is a Los Angeles, California based writer, curator and performance artist.〔("Interview with Kate Durbin." ) The Rumpus.〕 She is the author of several books of fiction and poetry including ''E! Entertainment,'' ''ABRA, The Ravenous Audience,'' and five chapbooks. Durbin's work primarily centers around popular culture, gender, and digital media. Of Durbin's writing, Christopher Higgs wrote for HTML Giant: "I call Kate Durbin one of the most compelling contemporary American writers because I feel like she’s in her own lane. No one does what she does in the way that she does it." 〔( "Some Must Read Books." ) HTML Giant.〕 ==Internet based projects== Durbin founded the online critical journal (''Gaga Stigmata: Critical Writings and Art about Lady Gaga ),'' in 2010. The blog critically engages with Gaga's "shock pop phenomenon" and "moves at the speed of pop," responding to pop cultural phenomenon almost instantly after they occur. Gaga Stigmata has received considerable press attention from sources as diverse as NPR, CBC's Q, Yale's American Scholar Magazine, AOL, The Atlantic, Spex, Huffington Post, Pop Matters, Berfrois, Voice Tribune, and many others. Members of Gaga's team, including Nicola Formichetti, hair stylist Frederic “Freddie” Aspiras, and visual artist Millie Brown have also tweeted and praised Gaga Stigmata's work. The journal has been used as a resource in classrooms across the world, and has been studied at conferences as a phenomenon in its own right, as a new way to do criticism in the era of the internet.〔(About page, "Gaga Stigmata" )〕〔("Get Your PhD in Lady Gaga." ) Salon.com〕 Durbin's Tumblr project ''(Women As Objects )'' created an online archive of the teen girl Tumblr aesthetic through real-time re-blogging.〔(‘It’s a lot of power we wield!’ A Conversation With Ben Fama & Kate Durbin. Poetry Foundation ).〕〔("Kate Durbin's Favorite Word is Chiffon. )" Poetry Foundation.〕 The Tumblr project resulted in a live performance at ''Bellyflop'' in Lost Angeles, two video performances ''iPrincess'' and ''TUMBLR IS THE ONLY PLACE WHERE I DON'T PRETEND I AM OKAY,'' and various artist talks. For a ''Hyperallergic'' (article ) co-written with Alicia Eler on the project, Durbin coined the term "teen girl tumblr aesthetic."〔http://womenasobjects.tumblr.com/ "Women As Ojbects." Tumblr.〕 "The Teen Girl Tumblr Aesthetic" was the 7th most popular article on Hyperallergic in 2013. Kate Durbin curated, "Girls Online," a best of her Women as Objects tumblr project, for the website ''Bright Stupid Confetti.''〔("Kate Durbin Discusses Girls Online Tumblr Project )." Poetry Foundation〕 Of "Girls Online" New York Magazine critic Jerry Saltz wrote: "Some of that information in that Kate Durbin show bordered on the sacred and forbidden for me. Extraordinarily important visual information to have in the culture. The ideas she's plumbing in that 'show' or 'grouping' feel apt. Ripe." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kate Durbin」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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