The Audiovisualities Lab will feature works-in-progress by MFA|EDA students John Rash, Jing Niu, and Jonna McKone. Vistas and Vestiges: Audiovisual Travels Through Place and Time (works in progress) Thursday, December 5, 6 p.m. Smith Warehouse, Bay 4 Afterwards there will be a reception of food and drinks in tandem with a general showcase of other lab projects* —————————————————————— Yangtze Drift by John Rash:… Continue reading MFA|EDA Students Screening in AV Lab’s ‘Vistas and Vestiges’
Category: Art Elsewhere
MFA|EDA Anna Kipervaser Curates “in2” November 22
in2: international independent short films + videos Friday, Nov 22 6:30pm-9:30pm Full Frame Theater – American Tobacco Power Plant Curated by MFA|EDA Anna Kipervaser (Class of 2015) Sponsored by GPSC This event is intended to bring together international creatives/creators and inspire conversations between their works, and between their works and new audiences. Works screening are… Continue reading MFA|EDA Anna Kipervaser Curates “in2” November 22
Pedro Lasch on the Nasher, his exhibition, and MFA|EDA
MFA|EDA faculty member, Pedro Lasch, is featured in an interview on Duke’s Arts Journal! “Lasch joined the Duke faculty in 2002. A lot has changed around campus since then; one landmark of this change was the opening of the Nasher Museum of Art in 2005. Lasch describes the Nasher as a great teaching institution, a venue for his… Continue reading Pedro Lasch on the Nasher, his exhibition, and MFA|EDA
Alumnus Wolfgang Hastert at Cucalorus Film Festival
2013 Alumnus Wolfgang Hastert’s film WOLFKINO will screen at the Cucalorus Film Festival in Wilmington on November 16th.The experimental film is a short narrative portraying people on Fayetteville Street in Durham. WOLFKINO juxtaposes two unique media: 35mm B/W hand-processed film with 35mm color footage shot in a hand-cranked toy camera. WOLFKINO Director: Wolfgang Hastert Short… Continue reading Alumnus Wolfgang Hastert at Cucalorus Film Festival
MFA|EDA Amanda Berg (’14) Featured in ‘Slate’
Amanda Berg (2014) was recently featured in Slate along with images from her project Keg Stand Queens. Recently, Slate columnist Emily Yoffe wrote a story advising college women to drink less at social gatherings to lower the risk of sexual assault.* The story pushed a few buttons and ignited a dialogue about drinking culture all over the Internet. For three years, photographer Amanda Berg was steeped in… Continue reading MFA|EDA Amanda Berg (’14) Featured in ‘Slate’
EVERYBODY STREET with MFA|EDA Visiting Artist Cheryl Dunn
Duke University’s MFA in Experimental and Documentary Arts is proud to welcome MFA|EDA Visiting Artist Cheryl Dunn to campus and to Durham, November 19-21. Among class visits, critique sessions with MFA|EDA students and other events, the acclaimed photographer will screen her street photography documentary, EVERYBODY STREET, Wednesday, November 20 at 7:00pm. The screening is free… Continue reading EVERYBODY STREET with MFA|EDA Visiting Artist Cheryl Dunn
MFA|EDA Caitlin Margaret Kelly Curates The Icon Industry
Via The Kenan Institute for Ethics: The Icon Industry: The Visual Economy of Human Rights, Nov. 4 This exhibit of student work, curated by Kenan Graduate Arts Fellow Caitlin Margaret Kelly, explores, critiques, and/or celebrates the notion of the iconic image in human rights issues as seen in our news media. It aims to… Continue reading MFA|EDA Caitlin Margaret Kelly Curates The Icon Industry
MFA|EDA Director Tom Rankin presents at the Library of Congress
Via CDS Porch: TOM RANKIN TO GIVE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS BOTKIN LECTURE ON “ONE PLACE”, OCTOBER 30 “‘I confine myself to the place I was born and raised,’ [Paul] Kwilecki once said, ‘not as an arbitrary discipline or to prove that subjects worthy of photographs exist everywhere and in abundance, though it is true that… Continue reading MFA|EDA Director Tom Rankin presents at the Library of Congress
Alumnus Joel Wanek at the 57th BFI London Film Festival
2013 Alumnus Joel Wanek‘s thesis film Sun Song will be making its world festival premiere at the 57th BFI London Film Festival on Thursday of this week. Sun Song is included in the EXPERIMENTA program, which is the festival’s annual survey of avant-garde and artists’ film & video. Click here to view a trailer of… Continue reading Alumnus Joel Wanek at the 57th BFI London Film Festival
MFA|EDA at SPE Regional and National Conferences
MFA|EDA alumnus Wolfgang Hastert (2013) is presenting at this year’s SPE West Regional Conference, ‘On the Brink: Photography as Witness’. He will show a cross-media presentation of DAYS AT HOME, his artist’s book incorporating pinhole photography with text and reproductions of Super-8 film footage. HOME explores personal family history set against a sequence of universal… Continue reading MFA|EDA at SPE Regional and National Conferences
