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Registration extension: The Global City and Media Ethnography: On
Transcultural Practice-led Media Research
Allen Feldman
af31 at nyu.edu
Tue Mar 25 18:59:50 EDT 2008
The Global City and Media Ethnography:
On Transcultural Practice-led Media Action Research
New York University Summer Study Abroad Program at the American
University of Paris
June 15-28, 2008.
Registration by April 16, 2008
4 graduate credits, 10 days; 14 seminars 6 media lab and media
practice mentoring sessions, intensive 1:1 advisement
Fees and Costs: $1097 per credit + $200 activities fee + NYU
registration fees + student housing $1125 (15 nights)
Open to non-NYU Students
Practice-Led Media Research engages social science and humanities
inquiry through lens-based, networked and tele-presencing media.
This course focuses on the theories and methods of media/sensory
ethnography, visual culture, and media archeology, through the linked
topics of transcultural and trans-local processes, diaspora
identities, the post colonial and human rights. The curriculum is
aimed at graduate students from diverse disciplines who want to
explore creative media practice as a research methodology. This
course provides students with theoretical and practical grounding in
multi-sited action research in trans-cultural and transnational
settings. Through social historical and trans-cultural ethnographic
perspectives practice-led pedagogy promotes a self-reflexive
contextual and critical understanding of the use of media for the
conduct and dissemination of research and the creation of social
knowledge through participatory cultural production. Practice-led
research bridges divisions between social theory and action-
research, and between creative practice and evidence-based research.
Topics: Politics of Multi-Sited Fieldwork/ the Transcultural and the
Transnational/ Politics of the Gaze/ Sensory Formation of Modernity/
Subject Positioning and Lens Based Research/ Negotiating Images and
Access/ The Aesthetics and Ethics of Evidence/ Human Rights and
Structural Invisibility/ Reading and Performing the Archive/ Outputs
and Transcribing Multisensory Fieldwork/ Reversioning and Curatorial
Strategies
Allen Feldman, Director:Media Ethnography/Visual Culture/
Anthropology of Violence/Action Research. Associate Professor
Department of Media Culture and Communication, and Visual Culture
Program, New York University. Rossela Raggazzi, Director:
Ethnographic Film, Migration and Diasporic Studies, Senior Lecturer
at Visual and Cultural Studies Unit at Institute of Social
Anthropology the University of Tromsø. Benjamin Kafka, Visiting
Faculty: Archive Theory and Practices, Assistant Professor
Department of Media Culture and Communication, New York University.
Amanda Ravetz, Visiting Faculty: Aesthetics and Ethnographic
Practice, Arts and Humanities Research Fellow, Manchester
Metropolitan University,Manchester Institute for Research &
Innovation in Art & Design (MIRIAD), Roshini Kempadoo, Visiting
Faculty: Photography and Imaging, Archival Curation, Interactive
Media Practices, Senior Lecturer in Media Production. Programme
leader for Interactive Media Practice School of Social Sciences,
Media and Cultural Studies, University Of East London. Mark Curren
Visiting Faculty, Photography and Visual Ethnography, Media Lecturer
in Photography, Centre for Transcultural Research and Media Practice,
Dublin Institute of Technology, and Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art,
Design & Technology.
Allen Feldman
Department of Media, Culture and Communication, New York University
239 Greene Street
New York, NY 10003
tel: 212 998 5096
af31 at nyu.edu
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