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We come to this questionnaire from two perspectives. As a curator, an artist, and an art historian, we have professional interests in visual culture, and things to say about it. In 2008, however, we were also partisans and volunteers for Barack Obama's campaign. In March, one of us volunteered in El Paso, during the Texas Democratic primary and caucuses, and in November we canvassed together the exurbs of north Las Vegas -we were among thousands of Californians who had swarmed into Nevada to get out the vote in the nearest swing state to home.Neither identity precludes the other, of course, and no doubt many reading this will have done something similar. But it seemed to us that the question of visual culture in the 2008 campaign would best be answered by moving between these two positions: the first, in front of various screens, on which spectacular, absurd, worrisome or inspiring events played out in the realm of images; and the second, canvassing on foot the residential mazes just south of Nellis Air Force Base.

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