{"275961":{"#nid":"275961","#data":{"type":"news","title":"PhD Student Gaskins Interviewed for Documentary","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFor the past ten years, producer\/director, M. Asli Dukan has been producing an original and groundbreaking,\u0026nbsp;independent documentary called\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.indiegogo.com\/projects\/invisible-universe-a-history-of-blackness-in-speculative-fiction\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EInvisible Universe\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E. For the documentary, Dukan has interviewed a \u0022Who\u0027s Who\u0022 list of Black Speculative Fiction writers, filmmakers and artists, including creators like Samuel R. Delany, Octavia E. Butler, Wesley Snipes, Nichelle Nichols, Steven Barnes, Tananarive Due, Nalo Hopkinson, Nnedi Okorafor, Rasheeda Phillips, Adrienne Maree Brown, John Jennings, Dawud Anyabwile and Dwayne McDuffie. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDukan also \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?feature=player_embedded\u0026amp;v=dPQ4s3n-bGg\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Einterviewed\u003C\/a\u003E Ph.D. student Nettrice\u0026nbsp;Gaskins about her work with IBM in Second Life, exploring Afrofuturism.\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003C\/p\u003E\u0026nbsp;","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"M. Asli Dukan has been producing an original and groundbreaking, independent documentary called Invisible Universe"}],"uid":"27725","created_gmt":"2014-02-14 12:07:25","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:15:51","author":"Carol Senf","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-02-14T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2014-02-14T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1283","name":"School of Literature, Media, and Communication"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"61831","name":"Afrofuturism"},{"id":"124","name":"Digital Media"},{"id":"77991","name":"documentary film"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39501","name":"People and Technology"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:nettrice.gaskins@lmc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Enettrice.gaskins@lmc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}