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This fall (2011), the Arts and Administration Program @UO will host a course by independent filmmaker and media arts advocate, Helen DeMichiel. As a Visiting Scholar in AAD, Helen will offer Participatory Media and Social Practice as a hybrid course: largely online delivery augmented by three in-person workshop style meetings on Saturday mornings (first, fifth, and ninth weeks).
The course is listed as AAD 408/508 (CRNs 17441/177442). Here is the course description:
When an art, media or design project touches people it can be a powerful tool for personal and social transformation. And now, as media technologies take root in new environments – both virtual and physical – they are transforming how we frame, use and think about culture. As new digital technologies liberate us to reinvent sustained and imaginative engagement with audience/participants and allies, creativity and experimentation are now being applied at every phase of what is becoming a three-dimensional system of interlocked parts moving across distribution platforms. This is the new transmedia space – dynamic, fluid and open.
In this emerging media ecology where film is migrating to the Web and converging with interactive and mobile platforms, games and other digital experiments, the question of how we make cultural artifacts to have abiding and transformative meaning and thicken public discourse in the real places and communities where we live and work becomes more urgent than ever.
This hybrid online course explores new and emerging transmedia models of cultural practice that are connecting to public engagement and community building strategies. From inception to dissemination, artists, filmmakers, curators, programmers and new media designers are working with organizations and coalitions in an interdependent dialogue process that is changing the way citizens engage with the great issues of our world – from local to global — and make sense of them in order to act upon them. By examining a range of case studies, we will closely analyze how new digital storytelling modes and interactive relationships among the creative industries, communities, organizations and policymakers are being leveraged to broaden and deepen social impact.
The goals of the course include: (1) giving students a theoretical and practical foundation in understanding current transmedia practices that are breaking out of traditional exhibition and distribution pathways; and (2) understand and practice the craft of funding proposal writing and design.
For more information, please feel free to contact John Fenn (jfenn AT uoregon.edu).
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