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Ed Keller, Program Coordinator |
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IN THE FIVE YEARS BETWEEN 2007 AND 2012, THE WORLD WILL EXPERIENCE GREATER TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCES IN THE MEDIASCAPES WHICH FORM OUR EVERYDAY LIFE THAN IN THE ENTIRE PREVIOUS FIFTY YEARS OF PROGRESS. |
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Spring 2008: The studio will be conducted as an essay film project (from film stills to direct cinema, from cinema verite to sci-fi), with the ambition of producing what we’ll reductively call documentary shorts, to be submitted to film festivals and other venues around the world. |
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Fall 2007: This voiceover from Jean Luc Godard's film Alphaville, spoken as the camera pans across nondescript post-war middle class high rise residential towers, identifies two kinds of global systems. The first is the wildly proliferating Hollywood mythmachine, which is able to colonize most of the world as America's most visible export, and which Godard satirizes directly in his film, by creating Lemmy Caution [E. Constantine] as a doppelganger of Bogart; and second, the global space which began to coalesce as the world recovered from World War Two, when urban centers were rebuilt and global networks of capital and materials intensified. The first problems of infrastructure, information science, highways, social housing on a mass scale, and systemic architectures in general emerged in macro-urban assemblies as the embodiment of such systems. The core principles of the concept of 'MediaSCAPE' are defined through this set of catalyst conditions: the migration of vast numbers of people, caused by a range of geopolitical factors; and the emergence of a new set of infrastructures that ultimately merged the control of physical systems with the control of energetic and information systems: Media and Migration. |
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The MediaSCAPES design studio final review took place on December 13, 2007. We were joined by a diverse range of critics attending from Los Angeles, New York, and San Francisco- Jason Anderson, Juan Azulay, Benjamin Bratton, Christian Bruun, Jean Michel Crettaz, Rene Daalder, Blair Ellis, Jeffrey Inaba, Carla Leitao, Marcos Novak, and Scott Perry. |
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Student work can be viewed here>> | ||
Faculty and Lecturers | ||
The MediaSCAPES faculty is comprised of designers, media artists, directors, writers, architects, and theorists, and in 2007–08 includes Alisa Andrasek (BioThing), Juan Azulay (AiB Matter Management), Ben Bratton (The Culture Industry), Manuel DeLanda, Ed Keller, Carla Leitao (a|Um Studio), Jean-Michel Crettaz, Nick Pisca (Gehry Technologies), and Roland Snooks (Kokkugia). Invited lecturers, workshop leaders and guests in 2007–08 include Christian Bruun [DitlevFilms], Hernan Diaz Alonso [Xefirotarch], Ben Goertzel [AGIRI], Gordon Gould [ThisNext], Perry Hall [Lovebrain], Branden Hookway [Cornell], Mark Leiter [Leiter & Co.], Noah Olmsted [Imaginary Forces], Chris Perry [SERVO], Shadi Sharoki [Shadi & Co.], George Showman, and Enrique Walker [Columbia GSAPP]. |
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