[-empyre-] Welcome to the April 2018 discussion: New Media Documentary Practice

[Christina McPhee]

Looking forward to this! Erin McElroy also contributed as a guest on our
Feminist Data Visualization in July 2016 . So excited you are going to
bring new attention to the wonderful FLEFF!

On Mon, Apr 2, 2018 at 10:08 AM Dale Hudson <dmh2018 at nyu.edu> wrote:

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> Welcome to the April 2018 discussion: new media documentary practice,
> moderated by Dale Hudson (AE/US).
>
> I hope that the discussion opens expectations about documentary to modes
> that use digital technologies to help us reengage the complexities our
> world. Some recover repressed or overlooked histories; others speculate on
> possible futures. Some analyze the everyday mediated images of the world
> that shape our perceptions of global connections; others locate themselves
> in particular locations to reveal subtle and often subjective details that
> might otherwise escape notice.
>
> The last three weeks will focus on artists, scholars, and others
> participating in the “Invisible Geographies” exhibition for the twentieth
> edition of the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival, which reimagines
> how we think about documentary across vectors that are visible and
> invisible, material and immaterial, audible and inaudible.
>
> Confirmed guests include: Philip Cartelli (US/FR), Dawn Dawson-House (US),
> Helen De Michiel (US), Adam Fish (UK), Garrett Lynch and Frédérique Santune
> (IE/FR), Erin McElroy (US), Liz Miller (US/CA), Max Schleser (AU), Naz
> Shahrokh (IR/AE), Sarah Shamash (BR/CA), Toby Tatum (UK), Steve WetzeL
> (USA), and Patricia R. Zimmermann (US).
>
> For the first week, the discussion will focus on Patricia R. Zimmermann
> and Helen De Michiel’s new book _Open Space New Media Documentary: A
> Toolkit for Theory and Practice_ (Routledge, 2017), which reimagines how we
> think about and teach documentary practice.
>
> They highlight community-based practices that are sustainable, scalable,
> and relatively inexpensive. They also select and analyze documentary
> projects made between 2000 and 2017 by artists and scholars in Argentina,
> Canada, China, Ghana, Indonesia, Peru, Syria, Ukraine, United States, and
> elsewhere, including the in-between spaces of diaspora and exile.
>
> Their book also bridges what is often conceived as a divide between theory
> and practice by offering a “toolkit” for putting theory into practice, but
> also one for opening theory to considering a range of practices that have
> emerged with new technologies and even been ignored or marginalized by past
> generations.
>
> With this message, I invite the –empyre subscriber list to discuss these
> issues in our soft-skinned space with our distinguished group of weekly
> guests.
>
> Best,
> Dale
>
> Guest bios:
>
> Patricia R. Zimmermann (US) is professor of screen studies at Ithaca
> College in the United States. Her books include _The Flaherty: Decades in
> the Cause of Independent Cinema_ (2017); _Open Space: Openings, Closings,
> and Thresholds of Independent Public Media_ (2016); _Thinking Through
> Digital Media: Transnational Environments and Locative Places_ (2015), and
> many others.
>
> Helen De Michiel (US) is a filmmaker, writer, and community designer based
> in Berkeley in the United States. Her documentary projects include the
> work-in-progress _Knocking on Doors_, _Lunch Love Community_ (2015), _The
> Gender Chip Project_ (2004), _Turn Here Sweet Corn_ (1990), the dramatic
> feature _Tarantella_ (1994), and many other shorts and media installations.
>
>
> Moderator bio:
>
> Dale Hudson (AE/US) teaches in the Film and New Media Program at New York
> University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) in the United Arab Emirates. He is a digital
> curator for the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival (FLEFF) and
> coordinator of Films from the Gulf at the Middle East Studies Association
> (MESA) FilmFest. He is author of _Vampires, Race, and Transnational
> Hollywoods_ (2017) and co-author of _Thinking through Digital Media:
> Transnational Environments and Locative Places_ (2015).
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