Events 2022-2023

SLOW FASHION directed by Melissa Eidson at the Manhattan Film Festival

SLOW FASHION screening will be held June 18th at 3:15pm at Cinema Village 22 E. 12th St

SF is also streaming on NYC’s The Filmmakers’ Cooperative:

https://film-makerscoop.com/catalogue/eidson-eme-slow-fashion

https://manhattanff.com/view-screening/1774

SLOW FASHION is a documentary that explores cultural appropriation of indigenous designs in Mexico by an international fashion designer and the way weavers and block printers in Laos and India are working with new sustainable designers, whose principles and practices are based on equality, not hierarchy. A major fashion designer from Paris has been appropriating traditional designs in the community of Tlahuitoltepec in the highlands of Oaxaca, Mexico. In response to this and other instances of global appropriation, Mexico's Ministry of Culture has asked global fashion brands for “a public explanation on what basis it could privatize collective property". Can credit and compensation be given to indigenous communities where the designs come from? Given the vast economic disparity between local communities of origin and the global companies, who are appropriating their designs; it becomes a matter of not only collective property rights, but also human and cultural rights. In Laos, craftsmanship and the value of culture is examined by Nanci Takayama, professor/sustainable fashion activist. Working with communities of Laotian weavers, she raises the subject of empowerment of women artisans and weavers and explores alternative socially conscious ways of working with them in collaboration. She focuses on how designers should respect culture and not just take the artisans’ heritage, their designs, but also to give something back in return. In Jaipur, India; Mireia Lopez, a New York City progressive eco-designer, demonstrates how to respect artisans by working in a just and fair manner. Hierarchies disappear and true collaboration occurs, as a people-over-profit philosophy is practiced. Mirea, demonstrates how a fashion designer can practice fairness and collaboration. Metamorphosis is possible and real solutions occur as sustainable practices are chosen. Ultimately, fashion designers must be inclusive and rooted in local needs, resources, and culture. It must include women and give voice to communities, who have been long marginalized by colonial models.

https://www.manhattanff.com/view-screening/1774

In Berlin with Layla Zami

SATURDAY JUNE 17 at 7pm

Transcultural Black Identities & Interventions
DANCE | THEATER | LIVE-MUSIC | BOOK LAUNCH

Ahead of the upcoming Juneteenth holiday in the USA, we present an event with dance-music-theater and a book launch! The evening opens at 7pm with the performance I Step On Air by Oxana Chi Dance & Art with live music by Dr. Layla Zami, and contextualized by a short input talk on the biography of May Ayim. At 8pm, our special guest from the City University of New York, Dr. Conor Tomás Reed, will present their new book New York Liberation School, followed by a discussion between Reed and Makda Isak, moderated by Binta Boiro (FU Berlin). Come through to enjoy performing arts, talks, drinks and a slice of garden in the heart of Schöneberg!

A cooperation between
Kultur-Café im Nachbarschaftsheim Schöneberg
Working Group Decolonial Realms / CRC 1512 Intervening Arts
Hoftheater Kreuzberg e.V.
Sponsored by the Amadeu-Antonio-Foundation and the CRC 1512
The event is part of the laboratory format Intervention Space Art and Academia

Announcement: Zoom launch event celebrating the publication of Performance Matters Volume 8, Issue 2: “The Syllabus is the Thing: Materialities of the Performance Studies Classroom," a special issue co-edited by Karin Shankar and Julia Steinmetz.

Wednesday, May 24th 7:00pm Via Zoom: Zoom link: https://pratt.zoom.us/j/8400582855

What does a performance studies syllabus instantiate or call into being in the classroom? In this special issue, contributors respond to this question, while simultaneously seeking to reframe the performance studies syllabus. If the syllabus (from its Greek origins, meaning “title,” “slip” or “label”) is a protocol for an experiment, how might we design syllabi to serve radical spaces of knowledge-making and modes of coming-to-know? In turn, how might syllabi create new structures within which to learn, reformulating the dynamics and relationships between teacher, student, and institution?

Contributors will present excerpts from their work, which assembled together forms a commons of pedagogical materials. Please join us for the issue launch celebration!

-Karin and Julia

Julia Steinmetz, PhD, MFA

Assistant Professor of Performance + Performance Studies

Humanities and Media Studies Department

Fine Arts Department

Pratt Institute

jstein34@pratt.edu

(she/they)

Interested in minoring in Performance + Performance Studies? Sign up here! https://forms.gle/tKFAWQHzwGdYnZ658

Want to sign up for office hours? Schedule an appointment here: https://calendly.com/juliasteinmetz

Adeena Karasick will be launching her two new books AErotomania: The Book of Lumenations and Ouvert Oeuvre: Openings as part of this event at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, Sat. May 20, 7:30 pm. Would be great to see you!

The Vision Room Fellow participated in an in person open laboratory session for the Pratt community and general public. This included preparation and presentation about their work in a shared theme (Perception), and discussion with audience members across disciplines. It was held on Wednesday May 10th, 6-8 pm in Dekalb Hall at Pratt Institute.

HMS Office Party

Many thanks to everyone who attended our May 1 office party at the library. It was fabulous to see so many of you in person and wonderful to be able to express our appreciation to Emily Beall and Mendi Obadike (via Zoom) for their service to HMS. Kudos to Joshua Tan for ordering the delicious buffet.

HMS Party

We are in the process of planning an HMS party to be held May 1 at 4:30 in the Alumni Reading Room in the Pratt Library. Please pencil in that date for a special end-of-the-year May Day gathering. We will take this opportunity to thank Emily Beall (stepping down from her role as Assistant Chair) and Mendi Obadike (stepping down from her role as Graduate Program in Media Studies/GPMS coordinator) for their service to HMS. We are looking forward to expressing our gratitude to the entire HMS faculty by celebrating the successful completion of the academic year. Google form to RSVP. https://forms.gle/t71s818DQrkTzXKA9

Cards for Mendi and Emily

An informal study group for interdisciplinary dialogue, Vision Room Fellows gather monthly to respond to the theme of "Perception", to expand our imaginations, knowledge and thinking towards projects-in-progress in our own fields.

Join us to this informal presentation to share approaches from our creative practices in an informal participatory discussion.

"On Perception"

May 10th 6-8 pm

Dekalb 208 (Dekalb Entrance)

Brooklyn Campus

Pratt Institute

Vision Room Fellows:

TD+A is a New York City-based design team, led by Yutaka Takiura. Yutaka is a designer who brings innovative ideas to reality. Yutaka has been active in New York design industry for over 25 years and has been teaching globally.

Marielle Peillsero, Performance Artist and Theorist, Institute Visiting Profesor, Universite libre de Bruxelles, NYU Tisch School of the Arts Visiting Scholar, Histories de Arte de Representation, Visiting Scholar, etc.

Ethan Spigland is a Professor in the Humanities and Media Studies Department at Pratt Institute. He received an MFA from the Graduate Film Program at Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, and a Maitrîse in Philosophy from the University of Paris VIII under the supervision of Gilles Deleuze and Jean-François Lyotard. Ethan is also an award-winning screenwriter, filmmaker, visual artist, critic and curator. His ongoing project, Elevator Moods, was featured in the Sundance Film Festival and South By Southwest, and won the prestigious Webby Award in the Broadband Category.

Amy Guggenheim, Writer/Director, a 2022 New York State Council on the Arts Film/Video Grant recipient for her film in development based on Japanese sword fighting; "When Night Turns To Day",(whennightturnstoday.com) is currently workshopping the feature film "Blindsight" based on the her short of the same name currently on the international festival circuit blindsightfilm.net She teaches Cinema Studies/Poetics of FIlm in the HMS Department at Pratt Institute

*The Vision Room is a space for a dialogue across disciplines in a process oriented exploration of thinking and doing. It is founded on the belief that imaginative, open interchange between fields, nurtures the risk-taking, deep thinking and imagination that lead to new and innovative vision. Performance artists, filmmakers, architects, sculptors, writers, theorists and others develop work in response to a shared bi-annual theme, meeting monthly to study, reflect on, show, inspire, and at times, open this process to the public.

Amy Guggenheim,

CCE Faculty /The Vision Room

PRATT INSTITUTE

Department of Humanities & Media Studies

200 Willoughby Avenue | DeKalb Hall 322 | Brooklyn, NY 11205. aguggenh@pratt.edu

STEAMplant, the Math and Science department’s interdisciplinary funding initiative. We have an open call for applications for new or existing projects that combine STEM subjects with the arts and design. Faculty and staff may apply for funding for their STEAM projects in amounts up to $7,500 (which can include stipends), and students doing their thesis (or other major project) work in STEAM subjects may apply for up to $5,000. The projects we are funding this round will take place during the 23/24 academic year (funding starts July 1st).

To learn more: https://www.pratt.edu/liberal-arts-and-sciences/math-and-science/steamplant-initiative/faculty-staff-project-grant/

Assistant Chairperson –

Humanities and Media Studies (71100)

The School of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York, seeks an Assistant Chair within the Department of Humanities and Media Studies to begin July 1, 2023. This is a full-time, four days per week twelve-month position. -The ideal candidate should have an established record of success in academic administration at the departmental level and a teaching and research background in a discipline related to the Humanities and Media Studies.

The Department of Humanities and Media Studies (HMS) is an innovative and multidisciplinary department with a graduate program in Media Studies (M.A.). At the undergraduate level, the department offers a core curriculum of required courses in the humanities to the entire Institute, and minors in Literature and Writing, Cinema Studies, Media Studies, and Performance and Performance Studies. The department also offers elective courses and courses for Institute-wide minors in The Book, Black Studies, and Social Justice and Social Practice. The department is known for an extensive range of innovative studio writing courses and writing workshops, working across the disciplines of an art and design school, and is further distinguished by a program in Architecture Writing that integrates and cross-links courses in the humanities and architecture.

As a top-ranked college with opportunities in art, design, architecture, liberal arts and sciences, and information studies, Pratt offers nearly 50 undergraduate and graduate degree programs. The Institute’s impact expands beyond its 25-acre residential campus in Brooklyn to cutting-edge facilities throughout the borough, a landmark building and public gallery in Manhattan, as well as an extension campus, PrattMWP College of Art and Design in Utica, New York. Pratt draws students from many different cultural and geographic backgrounds. We are committed to advancing diversity and inclusion in our curriculum as well as in the ranks of our faculty, students, and staff and seek applicants who can contribute to the furtherance of these goals.

The Assistant Chair reports to the Chair and is responsible for supporting the Chair in the academic and administrative operation of the HMS Department as well as cooperating with the Assistant to the Chair on departmental matters. The Assistant Chair communicates with students, faculty, and staff about the undergraduate and graduate programs; handles timetabling; publicizes course offerings; contributes to departmental events; and, takes up other duties related to the successful operation of the HMS department.

The Assistant Chair’s specific responsibilities include:

§ course scheduling and the assignment of faculty teaching loads;

§ establishing and maintaining communication with other Institute programs, departments, and offices in support of scheduling and student advisement;

§ communicating with program coordinators to ensure the smooth operation of HMS programs;

§ advising of students;

§ assisting HMS graduate students with registration and degree audits;

§ assisting the Chair with curriculum development, program assessment, and support of department minors;

§ contributing to the promotion of the department’s programs, courses, and events;

§ assisting with organizing, scheduling, and promoting seminars, workshops, lectures, and other departmental activities;

§ and, other tasks or special projects defined in collaboration with the Chair or requested by the Dean of the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences.

The Assistant Chair may also teach one course per semester and is granted one day per week for research and / or professional development.

Salary Range: $75K - $81K, commensurate with qualifications and experience.

“This position is not eligible for immigration sponsorship under Pratt’s current sponsorship policy.”

Qualifications

Education:

Candidates must have a Masters degree in a related field; a Ph.D. or M.F.A. in a relevant discipline is preferred.

Experience:

Applicants must have a minimum of 5+ years college-level teaching experience in higher education. Preference will be given to candidates with at least two years of administrative experience, which may include work such as program or minor coordination. Evidence of an active creative and/or research profile.

Skills:

§ Strong communication and interpersonal skills, and the capability to work in a dynamic environment in which collaboration across academic departments and Schools, as well as across Institute offices, is required.

§ Outstanding administrative skills that include familiarity with course scheduling, timetabling, curriculum development and review, and promotion of academic programs.

§ Ability to use course scheduling and student information software.

*Experience working with a unionized faculty is a plus.

Application Instructions

Applications should include:

§ A curriculum vitae.

§ A cover letter stating your interest in the position and how you approach academic administration.

§ A 1 to 2-page statement outlining how you have worked promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion in your career and how you plan on continuing to do so here at Pratt.

§ The names and contact information of three references. This information must be provided at the time of application; however, nominees will not be contacted without notifying the applicant in advance.

Please submit all materials via our applicant site at: https://apply.interfolio.com/14414/positions

The review of applications will begin March 1, 2023, and continue until the position is filled.

Application Process

This institution is using Interfolio's Faculty Search to conduct this search. Applicants to this position receive a free Dossier account and can send all application materials, including confidential letters of recommendation, free of charge.

https://apply.interfolio.com/120812

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Dear Colleagues,

As part of a two-day Oral Storytelling Symposium here at Pratt, I’m hoping to gather a group of 4 to 6 speakers to engage in an open conversation on the forms, practices, intensions, and ethics involved in the art of collecting and sharing oral histories. The conversation will take place on Friday, April 14th, at 1pm, in the Alumni Reading Room.

I’m reaching out, as I’m aware many of you have and continue to do extensive work in this field and would be a tremendous asset to any conversation on the subject. For the moment, I’m casting a broad net, hoping to catch a vibrant cross-section of work and perspectives. I believe the central questions for the discussion will turn on the value of doing this work in today’s media and information saturated environment.

Participants in the conversation will be asked to speak for 10-15 minutes on the context and general practices of their work and then engage with the other speakers in a panel style conversation.

If you are interested in participating in the discussion, please reach out to me via email at ewashing@pratt.edu by March 16th with a brief statement, approximately 1000-1500 words, that gives a sense of your biography and connection to oral history and/or oral storytelling work. Please use the phrase Oral Histories Panel as the subject line in your email.

My best,

Ellery Washington

Teaching Entanglements – Spring 2023

Educator Wellbeing Network @ Pratt CTL – Spring 2023

With Bethany Ides (Adjunct Associate Professor, Humanities & Media Studies, Pratt Institute)

Over the course of 3 cumulative conversations, we’ll read and discuss excerpts from Shawn Wilson’s Research Is Ceremony: Indigenous Research Methods, focusing particularly on his framing of relational accountability. What changes when we shift away from terms claiming possession (“my art,” “her practice”) and toward language signifying interdependence? How might teaching accommodate an understanding of things (objects, skills, ideas, natural elements, forms of life) not so much as a set of qualities but rather as knots of shared experience?

This dynamic book proposes a disposition toward making thinking that defies dominant subjecthood. Wilson combines several registers of address and modes of textual engagement, blending scholarship with kinship. I’m excited to explore these strategies for writing and forming systems of support with other teachers. For each session, I’ll select portions short enough to read together and reflect on in real time. PDFs of excerpts will be shared ahead of time upon request.

Session 1 – Thursday 3/23 from 3:00 – 4:15 pm
Session 2 – Thursday 4/6 from 3:00 – 4:15 pm
Session 3 – Thursday 4/13 from 3:00 – 4:15 pm

RSVP here: https://pratt.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwldO6oqzIjGNeUdBnSQzsd4DSPqiW7WZ2y

HMS/ VR Event

Dear Friends and Colleagues -

A passionate and compassionate Speaker, Shawnee Gibson will be a "Special Guest at Women in International Cinema" Monday April 3rd @ 2 pm in Engineering 305.

She will talk about her unique perspective on Black Maternal Health, from direct experience as a Mother, a psychoanalyst and leader, and the subject of the documentary, "AfterShock".

She will talk about the film, and engage the audience to gain insight about 'spontaneity and leadership, and other matters.

When a Black mother dies, there is a ripple effect. AFTERSHOCK, an original documentary from Onyx Collective and ABC News Studios. Following the deaths of two young women due to childbirth complications, two bereaved families galvanize activists, birth-workers and physicians to reckon with one of the most pressing American crises today: the US maternal health crisis. Directed by Paula Eiselt and Tonya Lewis Lee.

"Aftershock" is available to view at AFTERSHOCK

Presented by - Humanities and Media Department & The Vision Room @ Pratt Institute

Shawnee Benton Gibson, CEO, Author, Healer, Activist

Spirit of a Woman (S.O.W.), LLC

WATCH The Trailer For "AFTERSHOCK"; Our Award Winning Documentary on Black Maternal Mortality: https://youtu.be/k63RC0rJEd8

Check Out Shawnee's TEDx Talk: "Words & Wombs Create Worlds: The Black Maternal Health Crisis: https://youtu.be/PR11SFtnFSI

Visit The SOW Website: https://www.sowleadershipdevelopment.org/

Amy Guggenheim,

CCE Faculty

PRATT INSTITUTE

Department of Humanities & Media Studies

200 Willoughby Avenue | DeKalb Hall 322 | Brooklyn, NY 11205. aguggenh@pratt.edu

Ethan Spigland and Japanese scholar Go Hirasawa engage in a conversation about radical Japanese filmmaker Masao Adachi and Landscape Theory.

Monday. March 27 (Film/Video Screening Room, Brooklyn campus), Time: 7:00pm-10:00pm

Registration: https://forms.gle/yrDNmDjUeJCkjqJT7

Go Hirasawa is a researcher at Meiji-Gakuin University working on underground and experimental films and avant-garde art movements in 1960s and '70s Japan. His publications include Godard (Tokyo, 2002), Fassbinder (Tokyo, 2005), Cultural Theories: 1968 (Tokyo, 2010), Koji Wakamatsu: Cinéaste de la Révolte (Paris, 2010), and Masao Adachi: Le bus de la révolution passera bientot près de chez toi (Paris, 2012). He has organized more than fifty film exhibitions throughout the world, including Underground Film Archives (Tokyo, 2001), Nagisa Oshima (Seoul Art Cinema, 2010), Koji Wakamatsu and Masao Adachi (Cinématheque Française, 2010), Theatre Scorpio: Japanese Independent and Experimental Cinema of the 1960s (Close-Up: London, 2011), and Art Theater Guild and Japanese Underground Cinema, 1960-1986 (MOMA, 2012).

Jelena Stojković is an art historian and critic based in London. She is the author of Surrealism and Photography in 1930s Japan: The Impossible Avant-Garde (Routledge, 2020) and has recently contributed exhibition catalogue texts to Surrealism Beyond Borders (The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Tate Modern, 2021-22) and Avant-Garde Rising: The Photographic Vanguard in Modern Japan (Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, 2022). She is a Senior Lecturer in Critical Theory at the School of Arts, Oxford Brookes University.

Registration and website:

https://tcnp.link/enhpratt

English Hustle: Behind the Precarious Online Tutoring Industry in China

March 22 | 6:30-8PM | Pratt Institute, Film/Video Screening Room, 550 Myrtle Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11205

English Hustle explores the complexities of this issue through personal stories of teachers and students involved in a global industry with insights from academic experts on Chinese history, politics, and foreign affairs. Join us for a private preview this March 22, co-hosted by The China Project and Pratt Institute.

Hollywood in China: Behind the Scenes of the World’s Largest Movie Market by Ying ZHU (moderated with a response from Karen Ma)

Monday, March 20 (Alumni Reading Room, Library, Brooklyn campus), At 6 pm

Blending cultural history, business, and international relations,

Hollywood in China charts multiple power dynamics and teases out how

competing political and economic interests as well as cultural values

are manifested in the art and artifice of filmmaking on a global

scale, and with global ramifications. The book is an inside look at

the intense business and political maneuvering that is shaping the

movies and the U.S.-China relationship itself—revealing a

headlines-grabbing conflict that is playing out not only on the high

seas, but on the silver screen.

Registration Link:

https://forms.gle/YJnGNseRec51xgoAA

Registration: https://forms.gle/MQU5xZZZzaq3Rcu1A

Elena Vogman on Sergei Eisenstein

Thursday, March 9 (Film/Video McKenna Screening Room, Brooklyn campus) at 7 PM

Elena Vogman is a visiting assistant professor of History at NYU Shanghai. She holds a PhD in general and comparative literature from Free University, Berlin and was a postdoctoral fellow at Peter Szondi-Institute for General and Comparative Literature, Berlin and International Research Institute for Cultural Techniques and Media Philosophy (IKKM, Weimar), as well as a guest professor at École Normale Superieure, Paris.

THREE MODELS OF THE FUTURE

SPEAKER TIM YIP

MODERATOR MARY MC BRIDE

MARCH 6, MONDAY AT 6:30PM (EST)

200 WILLOUGHBY AVE BROOKLYN NY 11205

LIBRARY 3RD FLOOR

(ALUMNI READING ROOM )

CECILIA DOUGHERTY

MODERATOR: AMANDA MENDELSOHN

"MAKE BELIEVE , IT'S JUST LIKE THE TRUTH CLINGS TO IT" : IN CONVERSATION WITH THE WORK OF CECILIA DOUGHERTY

MONDAY FEBRUARY 27, 7pm (EST)

Registration: https://forms.gle/dm2Eq8TwKYTAh1F38

Teaching with Sexually Explicit Materials and Dialogic sensitivity with Katrien Jacobs

Location: Zoom

In this seminar I will talk about my experiences as a scholar and teacher of sexually explicit media within different cultural environments, specifically the Hong Kong undergraduate classroom. I will emphasize the importance of showing diversified explicit arts and media,

while being sensitive to the students’ backgrounds and hidden gender/power dynamics. My pedagogy is based on a notion of dialogic aesthetics in art theory, an opening up of definitions and practices of ‘art,’ ‘sexuality’ and ‘pornography’ to foster relations within wider socio-cultural publics and inclusive audiences.

Bio:

Katrien Jacobs is Adjunct Associate Professor in Cultural Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and research associate in the Department of Languages and Cultures at the University of Ghent. Jacobs has lectured and published widely about sexuality and gender in and around digital media, contemporary arts and online activism. She received several Hong Kong

government-funded GRF grants and authored four books about Internet culture and gender/sexuality. In 2022 she published Tit-For-Tat Media: The Contentious Bodies and Sex Imagery of Political Activism (London and New York: Routledge, 2022). Jacobs is also an artist-scholar who has produced documentaries and performance art pieces alongside her academic and ethnographic fieldwork, which can be accessed on www.katrienjacobs.com.

Screening of Jennifer Miller's Juggling Gender on Monday, February 13th, 2023 from 5:30-7:30 pm.

Location: Pratt Institute Film/Video Building Screening Room, 550 Myrtle Ave.

A screening followed by Q&A with Jennifer Miller

30 Years of JUGGLING GENDER: Politics, Sex, and Identity - Directed by Tami Gold

A loving portrait of Jennifer Miller, a lesbian performer who lives her life with a full beard. Miller works as a performance artist, circus director, clown and as the "bearded lady" in one of the only remaining sideshows in America. In public, she is often mistaken for a man, an experience she handles with the wit and intelligence that characterize her stage performances. JUGGLING GENDER explores the fluidity of gender and raises important questions about the construction of sexual and gender identity.

Extras include STILL JUGGLING, a new video with Jennifer Miller 15 years later, discussing family and religion, gender and the beard, the sideshow then and now, life as an artist, and Circus Amok. Also, SIDESHOW BY THE SEASHORE: Coney Island, New York.

DSL and DVD: http://bit.ly/3UV1JGB

Edu Streaming:

https://video.alexanderstreet.com/watch/juggling-gender-politics-sex-and-identity

Speaker : Dr. Kathleen Waller

Event Date: Tuesday, January 31, 2023 at 12:30pm EST time

Event Location: Zoom Meeting

Website: https://sites.google.com/pratt.edu/waller/home

Tuesday, Jan 24, 2023 at 7:00pm (EST)

Registration Form: https://forms.gle/k7XGX3boTHRzcr5R6

Website: https://sites.google.com/pratt.edu/eric-trenkamp/home

Virtual MA in Media Studies Open House on January 17, 2023, at 7pm.

Registration: https://forms.gle/1swzKupgkWYiviQh6

Date: Sunday, December 4, 2022

Time: 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.

Location: East Building Auditorium

Girls (Not) Always Happy: Women Directors in Contemporary Chinese Cinema with Speaker Gina Marchetti

Registration is required and opens Friday, November 25 at noon.

Please join us for a lecture with renowned scholar and author Gina Marchetti on 21st-century female directors working across Chinese-language cinema.

Rajiv Vaidya Memorial Lecture on Film

Abstract:

Marchetti will explore how contemporary female directors in Chinese-language cinema visualize the evolving role of women across transnational Chinese societies while critiquing “the male glance.” Highlighting the work of filmmakers like Sylvia Chang, Ann Hui, Flora Lau, Ning Ying, and Xu Jinglei, Marchetti will share how these directors build stories around women whose lives revolve around catching a glimpse of men wielding oversized influence on their survival. The accompanying screening of Yang Mingming’s Girls Always Happy (2018) provides a telling example of the interplay between the male glance and the female glimpse in contemporary cinema from mainland China.

About:

Gina Marchetti’s research and teaching interests encompass critical and cultural theory, world cinema, Asian and Asian American women filmmakers, and depictions of China and the Chinese diaspora on global screens. She is chair of the department of humanities and media studies at Pratt Institute and has published several works including Romance and the "Yellow Peril": Race, Sex and Discursive Strategies in Hollywood Fiction (California, 1993); From Tian’anmen to Times Square: Transnational China and the Chinese Diaspora on Global Screens (Temple, 2006); The Chinese Diaspora on American Screens: Race, Sex, and Cinema (Temple, 2012); and Citing China: Politics, Postmodernism, and World Cinema (Hawai’i, 2018).

Link: https://www.nga.gov/calendar/lectures/rajiv-vaidya-memorial-lecture/women-directors-contemporary-chinese-cinema.html/2022/12/04/1300

Registration: https://forms.gle/fxL1eUtjsjaNdrVV6

Cyberfeminism Index with Speaker Mindy Seu

Abstract:

The history of the internet is often overfocused on the grandfathers who created its architecture and protocol. But the internet is more than a network of cables, servers, and computers—it is an environment that shapes and is shaped by its inhabitants and their use. In Cyberfeminism Index, a variety of hackers, scholars, artists, and activists consider how humans might reconstruct themselves by way of technology through more than 700 short entries of radical techno-critical activism. Both a vital introduction for laypeople and a robust resource guide for educators, Cyberfeminism Index—an anti-canon, of sorts—celebrates the multiplicity of practices that fall under this imperfect categorization and makes visible cyberfeminism’s long-ignored origins and its expansive legacy.

Bio:

Mindy Seu (b. 1991, California) is a designer and technologist based in New York City. Her expanded practice involves archival projects, techno-critical writing, performative lectures, design commissions, sharing—typically in the form of lists and spreadsheets—and close collaborations. Her latest writing surveys historical precursors of the metaverse and reveals the materiality of the internet. Mindy’s ongoing Cyberfeminism Index, which gathers three decades of online activism and net art, was commissioned by Rhizome and presented at the New Museum in its online form, and its print form is a recipient of a Graham Foundation Grant. She has lectured internationally at cultural institutions (Barbican Centre, New Museum), academic institutions (Columbia University, Central Saint Martins), and mainstream platforms (Pornhub, SSENSE, Google), among many others, and has been a resident at MacDowell, Sitterwerk Foundation, Pioneer Works, and Internet Archive. Mindy holds an M.Des. from Harvard’s Graduate School of Design and a B.A. in Design Media Arts from the University of California, Los Angeles. She is currently Assistant Professor at Rutgers Mason Gross School of the Arts and Critic at Yale School of Art.

Date: Monday, November 28, 2022

Time: 6:00pm - 7:30pm

Pratt Manhattan Center

144 West 14th St., NY, NY 10011

Room: 201 Lecture hall

Comrades, Colleagues & Collaborators,

I hope you can join me this Friday, Nov 18, 1:15 pm - 2:30 pm EST, for a conversation about writing's many functions in our multidisciplinary teaching practices. I'm especially interested in the conundrums that arise when we consider how specters of authority and dominant subjecthood lurk in the writing we do within an educational institution. Please join me in attempting to detangle some slippery, thorny ideas wound around the utility of writing.
For what and whose use are the writing techniques we teach? Is teaching critical thinking ever at odds with teaching 'good' writing? How, why, and what can we do to nurture a student's own sense for distinguishing a difference?
No preparatory reading is required for this session, but I'll be weaving in excerpts drawn from Sara Ahmed's book, What's the Use, to keep our discourse moving and changing.
Stay for as long as you can -- it's totally OK to leave early if you have to go teach!!
Here's the Zoom link >>>>> https://pratt.zoom.us/j/93005523741

This session is part of an ongoing series I'm hosting, called Little Earthquakes, co-sponsored by the Center for Teaching & Learning and Humanities & Media Studies/WAC at Pratt. Correlating ideas and experiences of critical pedagogy, decoloniality, abolition, (de-)performing institutionality, vulnerability, reciprocity, political autonomy, difficult knowledge, research creation, out-of-place-ness, processes of (dis-/re-)orientation, rupture, and all that's involved in imagining learning as part of well-being rather than commodity. It is free and open to all educators in the broadest sense of the term.

In Reciprocity,Bethany
_____________________________________________________________Bethany IdesAdjunct Associate ProfessorHumanities & Media Studies

PRONOUNS: she/her/hers

The Pratt Institute School of Architecture will host the 2022 Architectural

Humanities Research Association (AHRA) conference on November 17-19, 2022

Several HMS faculty members are involved in this conference. For more information, contact Jeffrey Hogrefe at jhogrefe@pratt.edu.

The 2022 AHRA Convening brings together practitioners, scholars, graduate and undergraduate students,

and community leaders to work, learn, and move collectively towards challenging conventional academia

conference formats. Can a conference open up an authentic space of discussion—a space for humility and

collaboration—as we address climate urgency and collective action? Can architecture become a thought

structure rather than an outcome? Can we scaffold participation among audiences which extend far beyond

the campus? We envision a conference where participants share skills and research, and where there are

opportunities to participate in direct actions, or co-create research agendas which critically address how

climate justice is social justice, and how sustainability necessarily involves redistributions of wealth, land, and

power.

https://architecture.pratt.edu/articles/ahra2022

Engaging Weeksville in the Past, Present and Future through AfrosurrealismFounded in 1838 by formerly enslaved persons, the self-supporting community of Weeksville isat the heart of central Brooklyn, which is today the largest Black enclave in the U.S. Recognizingthe role that mapping has played in destroying the Black community, the process of immersivemapping has a central role in the formation of the Pratt Weeksville Archive. Examining thepast, present, and future histories of Weeksville in light of the effects of generationaldisplacement and erasures caused by urban development, the archive highlights the role storiesplay in shaping and strengthening the cultural formation of the community. With an emphasison working with physical, historical, political, and symbolic elements, mapping becomes acollective practice for unearthing and analyzing the narratives that forecasts a new future forcentral Brooklyn. Participants will perform procedural and self-referential Afrosurrealist walkingpractices to and from the Weeksville Heritage Center, where they will tour the original housesand interpretive landscape, and learn about the archive project from faculty, students, andWeeksville residents.Meet at Higgins Hall at 2:00 PM and return by 5:00 including travel time to and fromWeeksville.To register go tohttps://ahra-architecture.org/events/architecture-of-the-post-anthropoceneUse this code to register for the workshop Learn Engaging WeeksvilleMW22AHRAFor information contact jhogrefe@pratt.edu or sruff@pratt.eduIG @prattweeksville archive

Event site: https://sites.google.com/pratt.edu/louis-chude-sokie/home

Registration: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScwTxJ4NAmrxNzIPsWbAMt0yUSBfYHj2tUu6jblq21Zdr-PKg/viewform

BLACK TECHNOPOETICS

Monday, October 24, 2022

Abstract:

This will be a general talk about those aspects of Louis Chude-Sokei’s work that deal with race, technology, science fiction, and sound recording, particularly as it culminated in the 2016 book, The Sound of Culture: Diaspora and Black Technopoetics. He plans to also discuss public and creative work that has sprung from it—in terms of new research/writing on Blacks, robotics and Artificial Intelligence, as well as work in sound, ranging from curatorial and recording projects that include collaborations with notable figures like iconic Berlin electronic artists, Mouse on Mars, legendary choreographer Bill T. Jones, Mendi+Keith Obadike and others.

Bio:

Louis Chude-Sokei teaches at Boston University and directs the African American and Black Diaspora Studies Program. Scholarly work includes the award-winning The Last Darky: Bert Williams, Black on Black Minstrelsy and the African Diaspora (2005), The Sound of Culture: Diaspora and Black Technopoetics (2015) and the acclaimed memoir, Floating in A Most Peculiar Way (2021). He is Editor in Chief of The Black Scholar, one of the oldest and leading journals of Black Studies and founder of the sonic art and archival project, Echolocution. Other projects include collaborations with German electronic musical icons, Mouse on Mars, and legendary choreographer Bill T. Jones. Chude-Sokei was also a curator of Carnegie Hall’s 2022 Festival of Afrofuturism

Location:

Pratt Manhattan 144W 14th Street NY NY 10011

PMC 201 Lecture Hall

STUDENT ANNOUNCEMENTS

What's the Tea, Brooklyn? Informal Listening Chats with Pratt Students

Thu, Oct 20 2022 10:00 am – 11:00 am Walt Whitman Library

Pratt Students are out "reporting the city" for the first time since Covid started. We want to hear from you! We invite library patrons to join us this month for informal listening chats at Walt Whitman branch. Share what's on your mind! Spill the tea! We hope to build out some real reporting that hasn't been done. We need your advice! Help us shape a future reporting project with your participation. Community works!

https://www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/whats-tea-brooklyn-walt-whitman-library-20221020

Contact Ellen Berkovitch at eberkovi@pratt.edu.

Events for the Graduate Program in Media Studies

FEBRUARY

Wednesday 2/9 at 12:30 pm

Editor / Journalist Elizabeth Mendez Berry

Thursday 2/10 at 6 pm

Editor / Journalist Elizabeth Mendez Berry in conversation with Rashid Shabazz about their platform to support critics of color, entitled Critical Minded

MARCH

Wednesday 3/2 at 12:30 pm

Vlogger and DJ Jay Smooth

Wednesday 3/9 at 12:30 pm

“Media Assassin” and hip-hop activist Harry Allen

Wednesday 3/23 at 6:00 pm

Jay Smooth and Harry Allen in Conversation

APRIL

Wednesday 4/6 at 12:30 pm

Lauren Lee McCarthy

Wednesday 4/13 at 12:30 pm

Patricia Ticiento Clough

New York Arts Program

The New York Arts Program is a fully immersive, semester-long, off-campus study program that provides students with professional experiences in the arts in New York City. The mission of the New York Arts Program (NYAP) is to serve college students in the arts by equipping them with expert hands-on experience in an increasingly interdisciplinary, competitive, globally cultural environment, engaging their creativity, intellect and skills, and providing them with practical and intellectual tools that prepare them for further study and professions in creative fields. NYAP sees artists as catalytic participants in this society and seeks to cultivate their ability to sustain their work and enrich their communities.

Three professional artists serve as faculty advisors and seminar leaders in the areas of Visual Arts & Art History, Film & Media, and Performing Arts. Acting also as advisors, the faculty place students within the professional performing, fine and creative art worlds in meaningful and customized internships, and help students to discover, pursue, and navigate their unique interests. Additionally, the faculty lead a critical-thinking seminar in their area of focus, engage in required one-on-one advising sessions, steer students in their independent capstone projects, and participate in curated program events. The immersive experience of the internships, the tutorial relationship with our faculty, the seminars and program events combine to create an educational experience that is accelerated and highly personal.

Recent internships include: The Metropolitan Opera, Lincoln Center, Opera America, The Brooklyn Academy of Music, Paul Taylor Dance Company, DAW/Penguin, Writer’s House, Poet’s House, The Late Night Show, Saturday Night Live, Livewire, National Sawdust, Atlantic Pictures, Greenpoint Pictures, Breakthru Film, WNYC, Columbia Records, Lee Strasberg, The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Brooklyn Museum; Visual Artists EV Day, Rashid Johnson, Zoë Buckmann, Jean Shin, Borinquen Gallo.

Applications received by October 15/March 1 are given priority. Applications received after those deadlines are reviewed by the NY Arts Program on a rolling basis according to space availability.

Questions? Email: Emilie Clark, Executive Director

O: 212.563.0255 ext. 3; C: 917.517.7730

emilie@nyartsprogram.org

New York Arts Program; www.emilieclark.com

Dialogues on Justice: A Conversation on Race, Space, and Law with Alexis J. Hoag

April 15th at 11:00 am -12:00 pm

The SoA and GAUD are pleased to present a discussion with Alexis J. Hoag, Assistant Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School. In conversation with Visiting Professor Katherine Smith, civil rights attorney, and Adjunct Professor Dr. Peter Macapia, architectural designer and political philosopher, Professor Hoag will discuss racial justice in her writing and legal practice. Of particular interest are spatial practices and legal histories of confinement, segregation, capital punishment, and unequal access to the implementation of justice that construct race around power-relations and white supremacy. In a sense, architecture and disciplines of the built environment, is like law, it is a mechanism of spatial distribution. 21st century critical discourses like Professor Hoag’s underpin the historical work necessary to understand these systems and their power dynamics in order to grasp the potentials of social and racial justice. We welcome Professor Hoag in exploring with us these histories and would like to thank the SoA Office of the Dean for its generous support in making this possible..

Professor Hoag teaches and writes in criminal law and procedure, evidence, and carceral abolition. Her recent scholarship examines the ways in which policies, doctrines, and practices within the criminal legal system erode people’s constitutional rights and perpetuate racial subordination. Professor Hoag's scholarship has appeared in or is forthcoming in the New York University Law Review, Michigan Law Review, Harvard Law Review Blog, and other journals. She serves on the editorial board of the Amicus Journal and co-chairs the capital punishment committee of the New York City Bar Association. A frequent legal contributor for CBSNews, Professor Hoag regularly provides on-air and in print analysis for MSNBC, NPR, Al Jazeera, and other media outlets.

Join Zoom Meeting

https://pratt.zoom.us/j/98804247578?pwd=d1NFSEU3QzlPbUdjRE1RY3EyTWd4UT09

Mon, Nov 1, 2021, 5:00 PM EDT

Moya Bailey, Misogynoir Transformed: Black Women's Digital Resistance

Zoom

5 pm: Moya Bailey (Northwestern University)

“Misogynoir Transformed: Black Women’s Digital Resistance”

When Moya Bailey first coined the term misogynoir, she defined it as the ways anti-Black and misogynistic representation shape broader ideas about Black women, particularly in visual culture and digital spaces. In this talk, Bailey explores how Black women have bravely used social-media platforms to confront misogynoir in a number of courageous—and, most importantly, effective—ways. Focusing on queer and trans Black women, she shows us the importance of carving out digital spaces, where communities are built around queer Black webshows and hashtags like #GirlsLikeUs.

Moya Bailey is an Associate Professor in the School of Communication at Northwestern University. Her work focuses on marginalized groups' use of digital media to promote social justice and she is interested in how race, gender, and sexuality are represented in media and medicine. She is the digital alchemist for the Octavia E. Butler Legacy Network and the Board President of Allied Media Projects, a Detroit-based movement media organization that supports an ever growing network of activists and organizers. She is a co-author of #HashtagActivism: Networks of Race and Gender Justice (MIT Press, 2020) and is the author of Misogynoir Transformed: Black Women’s Digital Resistance (New York University Press, 2021).

Aesthetics of Survival: A situation derived from The World Computer

A conversation with Jonathan Beller on what he calls "the derivative condition” and the challenges of racial capitalism.

Mon, September 27, 2021

5:00 PM – 6:30 PM EDT

Sponsored by Graduate Program in Media Studies

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Prize for Writing Excellence in Degree Project

Summary

The Prize for Writing Excellence in Degree Project is co-sponsored by

Undergraduate Architecture and the Department of Humanities and Media

Studies at Pratt Institute. It recognizes a 5th-year Architecture

student who’s Degree Project Booklet demonstrates creativity, careful

scholarship and excellence in writing while addressing compelling

issues in architecture and contemporary discourse.

Award- $500

Media Sponsorship

Excerpts of the winning booklet will be published on Pratt’s media

platforms. Especially strong writing could receive external media

sponsorship.

Process

Faculty of the (10) ten cross-linked sections of Arch-503 and HMS-498B

will jointly nominate one booklet from their studio for consideration.

A jury composed of HMS and SoA faculty will evaluate the nominees,

narrowing to three semifinalists from which a finalist will be

selected. The jury will review booklets in pools applying a rubric

and will convene for two meetings, the first to select semifinalists

and the second to select the finalist.

Rubric

Booklet writing will be evaluated in (4) four different categories, as follow:

Research - does the writing demonstrate careful and resourceful

research and academic integrity?

Critical Thinking - does the writing demonstrate thoughtful analysis,

awareness of the author’s position, and structured and supported

argumentation?

Writing Craft - does the writing demonstrate creativity and quality of

written expression and attention to the reader?

Creative Synthesis - does the writing demonstrate an effort to attune

and integrate research, writing, typography and visual elements?

Jury Composition

The jury will be a minimum of three (3) x HMS and three (3) x SoA

faculty, representing both departments. HMS will issue an open call

for jury members. SoA jury members will be from the History and Theory

department and interested DP faculty.

Time and Compensation

Outside of two 1h meetings, we estimate a review time of 1hr per

booklet. Jurors will have 3 hours of review time for the semifinalist

meeting and 3h of review time for the finalist meeting, for a total of

8h of service. Adjunct faculty will receive a stipend of $450 at a

rate of $50/h.

Schedule

Booklets Due - Sunday May 7th at 10pm

Jury charged and pools formed - Monday, May 8th

Semifinalists Meeting - Thurs or Friday, May 12th

Finalists Meeting - Monday May, 15th

Prize Announced - May 16th at Convocation. The award would be

announced along with the SOA design awards, reinforcing the coherence

of the collaborative curriculum.

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