21 ST ANNUAL GRADUATE MEDIA SHOWCASE
APRIL 28 - MAY 9, 2017
6 East 16th Street
Dawnja Burris
6th Floor
Producer
New York, NY 10003 M-F : 10 AM - 6 PM OPENING RECEPTION AND AWARDS
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Ernesto Klar Exhibition Coordinator
CEREMONY Friday, April 28
Jelena Gregov
7 PM-9 PM
Production Assistant
Stella Shepherd Communications and Reception Coordinator
Amir Husak, Brian McCormick First Round Judges
Michael Stewart Technical Operations and Awards Coordinator
Manuel Ermecheo Technical Assistant
Mehtap Aydin Graphic Designer
Special thanks to all of the students who submitted projects for consideration and the faculty members who guided their work.
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WELCOME Welcome to Mixed Messages. This year marks the 21st anniversary of our Media Studies graduate student showcase. Spring is the time of year we share some of the most exciting student work in web, audio, video, sound, photography, and multimedia. Our core commitment to the importance of the bond between theory and practice across all media platforms continues to provide us with a rich context for imagination, innovation, and social commentary. This year’s collection of experimental, interactive, and narrative projects exemplifies the creative best of our students. Celebrate along with us and enjoy. Carol Wilder Dean, School of Media Studies The New School
LÍVIA SÁ DIS TA N T MEM ORIE S OF A COUP Multimedia Living away from your country of origin can evoke all types of feelings and emotions. This is particularly true when your home country is going through a political crisis, when the distance can feel even more intense. This participatory multimedia project builds on the feelings and memories of Brazilians living outside of Brazil in 2016, when a coup d’état took place and infringed on the country’s democracy. A total of 72 participants who opposed the impeachment process of president Dilma Rousseff participated in the project by selecting from among images on postcards of Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo and writing their thoughts, feelings and memories of Brazil in relation to the political happenings - from their distance. Select pairs of participants with content in common were invited to record non-scripted audio conversations conducted mainly in Portuguese.
Super 8mm film footage documenting scenes common to most Brazilians, provides a backdrop of visual material further evoking nostalgia and memories and strives to bring non-Brazilians closer to the environments and daily life of Brazil.
Lívia Sá is originally from São Paulo, Brazil. She moved to San Francisco to study Cinema Production and worked with a diversity of independent filmmakers and photographers. She is currently based in Brooklyn and working freelance. Lívia's work focuses on human rights issues, using both documentary and experimental filmmaking. Working beyond conventional approach to cinema, she is interested in altering the viewer's perception while stimulating different senses in her storytelling.
INÉ S VO GELFANG MI G R AT IN G SP OR T S: A N AT L A S Augmented Reality Migrating Sports: An Atlas is an abstract, interactive map that features how public space and sports can help build communities amongst immigrant populations in New York City. The map indicates the journey the artist took to find and meet two immigrant groups in different parts of the city. The viewer holds an iPad over it, pointing the tablet's camera at specified symbols to experience an augmented reality immersion into a series of mini documentaries to witness each group, their traditional activity and the city’s land and soundscape at each location. Inés Vogelfang is a film and television editor, and postproduction coordinator from Buenos Aires, Argentina. She is an alumna of the Documentary Studies Certificate and the MA in Media Studies programs at The New School. For her BA, she studied Sound and Image Design at the University of Buenos Aires where she discovered her passion for documentary while making her 2009 non-fiction project Heart of Fantasy on children at a pediatric hospital. She speaks Spanish, French, Portuguese and English and she will continue to study the world forever, finding different ways to tell the stories she discovers.
JAMAL LE WIS N O FAT S N O F EMME S Video (duration: 2:44) No Fats, No Femmes is an autobiographical performance, interrogating the politics of desire and exploring issues of race, gender, body image, and body positivity in the gay community. Set to Mark Aguhar’s Litanies To My Heavenly Brown Body, the film asks: Who is worthy of love and who's not; Which bodies matter and which don't? Hailing from Atlanta, Georgia, Jamal T. Lewis (b. 1990) is an emerging multidisciplinary artist, writer, and thought leader living in Bedstuy, Brooklyn. Named by Teen Vogue as one of the "coolest queers on the internet," Lewis is also known as 'fatfemme', a moniker that encapsulates life at the intersection of fat and femme identity - "spaces that people are afraid to occupy," he-she names. A graduate of Morehouse College and The New School, Lewis produces work around the body, specifically exploring and interrogating identity formation, race, gender, sexuality, desire, beauty, and ugliness. Lewis's work has been featured in the LA Times, TriBeca and the Tate Modern.
MARC FIAUX RE S OUNDIN G IN T ERI ORS Interactive Sound This sound installation is a real-time sonification of room tone into a busy industrial factory. The project aims to open up a new perspective on the physicality of interior spaces by transforming the ambient sounds within them. The idea is to consider the reverberated sounds as implicit in the creation of the space. The development of this project stems from a fascination with the physicality of interiors as simultaneously constituting a positive/occupied and a negative/emptied presence. Consequently, mechanical sounds resembling a factory with heavy machinery are fundamental to materialize this concept, and provide a relentless array of acoustics to imagine the physical space perpetually constructing itself as a tangible sonic environment.
The inanimate space suddenly becomes very real in the mind of the listener through the sonification. What is revealed is an austere industrial world functioning on its own agency. The machines emerging out of the interior elicit an invisible presence, as if the room were alive, a mechanical organism, operating and orchestrating its own physicality. Marc Fiaux works in photography, sound engineering, video and graphic design. He is well-versed in media theory and engaged in creating new media. Born and raised in Switzerland, he initially came to New York City to study photography and earned a BFA in 2013 and his MA in Media Studies in 2016. As time went on, his interest expanded beyond the visual arts, into the sensorial, and he began focusing on the perception of virtual architectures, the acoustics of space and stimulating imagination by creating electroacoustic sound compositions and multi-sensorial installations.
DIEGO ROMERO MON T IEL T HE T Y PIN G M ACHINE Multimedia The Typing Machine tries to bring back the importance of the written communication act which has become diluted in our hyper-connected society dominated by digital content and instant response. Personal messages were gathered by random people from a wide range of age, nationality, cultural background and gender who typed on an old typewriter in various locations in NYC, expressing their love, dreams, hopes, regrets among other feelings and thoughts. The experience of typing aimed to bring the participants to a time when writing a letter or a note was a very conscious act that required a sustained level of effort and concentration, resulting in deeper and more meaningful messages.
The messages are archived, allowing the visitor see a scanned copy of the originals and to navigate by location, date and keywords. Through the form of experimental narrative web-series, similarities and differences of values, feelings, hopes and fears of the writers may be explored.
Diego Romero Montiel spaniard content creator focused on storytelling across media. He is especially interested in all the new possibilities that new media offers to tell stories. At the same time, he is fascinated with old school mechanical instruments, typewriters among them.
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