Our Mission

CAMRA (Collective for Advancing Multimodal Research Arts) fosters interdisciplinary collaborations amongst scholars, sensory ethnographers, artists and educators within and beyond the University of Pennsylvania to explore, practice, evaluate and teach about multimedia research and representation. 

We ask questions about the affordances, challenges, and possibilities of multimodal scholarship in teaching, learning, mediamaking, and knowledge production. Our aim is to support media-based research and pedagogies, with an explicit focus on: (1) providing practical guidelines for evaluation of multimodal research; (2) utilizing participatory, digital, and ethnographic methodologies; (3) creating digital and physical spaces for multimodal work to be showcased; (4) critically examining how technology is changing the processes of teaching and learning.
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Upcoming Events


​CAMRA Salon | December 2nd, 2025
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CAMRA will be hosting a salon on Tuesday, December 2nd!

Salons are an opportunity for folks engaged in multimodal scholarship to commune and talk about our work. We invite 1-2 people to present an in-progress project to ground the conversation, but the event is largely informal.

​Come gather over wine and snacks! All are welcome 

​Witnessing with Lenses | November 14th, 2025
Join CAMRA for a workshop facilitated by Aisha Mershani and Katy Lena N'diaye!

Participants are encouraged to bring project they are working on (or aspire to work on) that feature film and photography. 

More information about the facilitators a can be found in the RSVP form. ​
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