Save the date: 7th Annual Screening Scholarship Media Festival
March 30-31, 2019 | University of Pennsylvania
The Screening Scholarship Media Festival (SSMF) provides a creative, collaborative space to explore the affordances and challenges of multimodal strategies in research, and to interrogate their social implications. SSMF is a hybrid between a traditional academic conference and a film/media festival that fosters the intersection of art and science across disciplines since 2013.
Rendering Matters of Concern and Present Histories is the theme of SSMF2019, and scholars, educators, artists, activists, visual legal advocacy and digital humanities groups are welcome to participate. Categories for submission are film, audio, photo essay, panel-style, performance, and immersive media (VR, AR). This year, SSMF will feature works rendering matters of concern and the present historiesof indigenous people, persons under any form of detention, diasporic communities, LGTB+ collectives, and environments in conflict.As collaborative designed to explore and challenge research as praxis, SSMF proposes rendering as those manifold possibilities by which scholarship become legible, audible, sensible and noticeable to multiple registers.
Nowadays, the production and distribution of academic knowledge across multiple formats is paramount. The intensified relations between contexts of research, modes of scholarship and new media affordances have transfigured the modalities involved in the collection, analysis and dissemination of paper-based scholarship. In this sense, the acceptance of non-textual submissions by peer-reviewed journals, the production and defense of films as dissertations, and the establishment of experimental and sensory lab centers in academic institutions are prompting scholarship to be performed otherwise. The outcomes of these entanglements in which scholars, communities and new media affordances strive to collaborate no longer stand as mediated representations of reality. Instead, they have become tactics and poetics through which matters of concern and present histories get diffracted as exchangeable figures of affect, resilience, advocacy and existence.
This year’s SSMF aims to create a unique dialogue on multimodal research and a salient hub for experimentation in a broader, domestic, and international stage.
Deadline for applications is November 30, 2018, noon (EST)
Click here to submit your entry for SSMF2019
Click here to register to SSMF2019
Rendering Matters of Concern and Present Histories is the theme of SSMF2019, and scholars, educators, artists, activists, visual legal advocacy and digital humanities groups are welcome to participate. Categories for submission are film, audio, photo essay, panel-style, performance, and immersive media (VR, AR). This year, SSMF will feature works rendering matters of concern and the present historiesof indigenous people, persons under any form of detention, diasporic communities, LGTB+ collectives, and environments in conflict.As collaborative designed to explore and challenge research as praxis, SSMF proposes rendering as those manifold possibilities by which scholarship become legible, audible, sensible and noticeable to multiple registers.
Nowadays, the production and distribution of academic knowledge across multiple formats is paramount. The intensified relations between contexts of research, modes of scholarship and new media affordances have transfigured the modalities involved in the collection, analysis and dissemination of paper-based scholarship. In this sense, the acceptance of non-textual submissions by peer-reviewed journals, the production and defense of films as dissertations, and the establishment of experimental and sensory lab centers in academic institutions are prompting scholarship to be performed otherwise. The outcomes of these entanglements in which scholars, communities and new media affordances strive to collaborate no longer stand as mediated representations of reality. Instead, they have become tactics and poetics through which matters of concern and present histories get diffracted as exchangeable figures of affect, resilience, advocacy and existence.
This year’s SSMF aims to create a unique dialogue on multimodal research and a salient hub for experimentation in a broader, domestic, and international stage.
Deadline for applications is November 30, 2018, noon (EST)
Click here to submit your entry for SSMF2019
Click here to register to SSMF2019
UPCOMING EVENTS:
FEATURED PROJECTS:
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Resources for Education and Action for Community Health in Ambler (REACH Ambler)
Camra is a partner on the REACH Ambler project which explores the history, environmental health, and community identity of Ambler, Pennsylvania, through a partnership between the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Medicine and the Chemical Heritage Foundation (CHF). Through methods connected to oral history, public history, and science studies, the REACH Ambler project team has collected and contextualized diverse viewpoints and information from Ambler residents and institutions. See website for all films! Project Members: Matthew Tarditi and Jabari Zuberi |
Manufacturing Ambler from Matthew Tarditi on Vimeo. |
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SWEET TEA
A feature-length experimental/ethnographic documentary, follows the personal and scholarly trajectory of researcher and activist E. Patrick Johnson. Johnson (the first Black man from his small town of Hickory, North Carolina, to earn a PhD) uses social scientific and humanistic methods to examine questions of identity and community in contemporary society. Director and producer: John L. Jackson Jr. and Nora Gross. |
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The Public Classroom @ Penn Museum
This documentary film focuses on the Morton skull collection, notorious for its institutionalization of “scientifically” justified racism. The documentary is part of a larger project by the University of Pennsylvania to make questions of race and science accessible to a general public, with material that could be easily digestible by students from late middle school onwards. Visit website here! Co-Directors: Arjun Shankar, Melissa Skolnick, Andrew Hudson, Ore Badaki. |
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Anthropological Airwaves Podcast Anthropological Airwaves is a podcast that explores the craft of anthropology in all of its forms. Building on the journal’s commitment to four-field, multimodal research, the podcast hosts conversations about anthropological projects—from fieldwork and publishing to the discipline’s role in public debates. By demystifying the craft of anthropology, the podcast broaches a series of fundamental questions about past, present, and future disciplinary practice, and charts new paths for anthropological engagement. Executive Producer: Arjun Shankar Producer and Editor: Kyle Olson Producer and Editor: Nooshin Sadeghsamimi |
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