MFA|EDA Photo & Video Panelists at NC Museum of History

Hidden Stories of Abandoned Places Friday, September 4, 6:30-8:00 pm at the NC Museum of History What can photos, archival documents, personal recollections, and video reveal about the people who once inhabited a place and the circumstances that caused them to leave it behind? What affects the decisions a photographer or filmmaker makes about how… Continue reading MFA|EDA Photo & Video Panelists at NC Museum of History

MFA|EDA + More at Chicago Underground Film Festival

Check out the Chicago Underground Film Festival lineup at http://cuff.org. MFA|EDA friends and family exhibiting work include: Chora by Anna Kipervaser (Class of 2015) Night Noon by Shambhavi Kaul (Faculty) Speculation Nation by Bill Brown (Faculty) and Sabine Gruffat Hacked Circuit by Deborah Stratman (Visiting Artist) Soundprint by Monteith McCollum (Visiting Artist) Now you know where… Continue reading MFA|EDA + More at Chicago Underground Film Festival

MFA|EDA at Athens International Film+Video Festival

Four films from Duke University MFA|EDA faculty, alumni and students are featured in this year’s installment of the Athens International Film + Video Festival, April 3-9, 2015. Check it out:  http://athensfilmfest.org/ Congratulations to the filmmakers: William Noland  Bicycle Day Brenda L. Burmeister  A Date With Your Family John Rash  Yangtze Drift Anna Kipervaser  Instrument

David Gatten Retrospective at PLASTIK 2015

Dublin’s PLASTIK Festival of Artists’ Moving Image is featuring a retrospective of David Gatten films (Duke AMI + MFA|EDA faculty), including: Film for Invisible Ink case no. 71: BASE-PLUS-FOG  (2006) black & white, sound, 16mm 10 minutes What the Water Said, no. 46  (2007) colour, sound, 16mm 17 minutes Shrimp Boat Log (2006 re-cut and printed… Continue reading David Gatten Retrospective at PLASTIK 2015

MFA|EDA Class of 2015 Student Film + Video News

Class of 2015 MFA|EDA students Ava Lowrey, Libi Striegl and Anna Kipervaser in the news:   Congratulations to Ava Lowrey, MFA|EDA Class of 2015, whose film Fred: The Town Dog won the Audience Award at the Montgomery Film Festival, and continues its festival run at the Black Warrior Film Festival in February. Congratulations to Libi Striegl, MFA|EDA Class of… Continue reading MFA|EDA Class of 2015 Student Film + Video News

Re-Imagining the Environment Exhibit & MFA|EDA

RE-IMAGINING THE ENVIRONMENT A multimedia collection of art, exploring nature-culture interactions from eight regional artists: Kim Beck Erin Espelie (MFA|EDA ’14) Josh Gibson (MFA|EDA / AMI faculty) Mark Iwinski Jeff Murphy Mark Nystrom Michelle Podgroski Jennifer Stratton (MFA|EDA ’14) April 12 – June 30 Wegner Gallery Duke Environment Hall Circuit Drive at LaSalle Street Opening… Continue reading Re-Imagining the Environment Exhibit & MFA|EDA

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

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

In Practice: Work by Duke Arts Faculty – Power Plant Gallery On Exhibit Now Through Dec 13

Via CDS Porch: The Power Plant Gallery at American Tobacco Campus is pleased to present In Practice: Work by Duke Arts Faculty, opening October 4. The exhibit includes works in a wide range of media—photography, film and video, printmaking, new media—by seventeen Duke faculty members and instructors from three arts units at the university: the Center for Documentary Studies (CDS), the Department… Continue reading In Practice: Work by Duke Arts Faculty – Power Plant Gallery On Exhibit Now Through Dec 13

MFA|EDA at the 51st New York Film Festival, Sept 27-Oct 13

Duke University’s MFA in Experimental and Documentary Arts program is proud to announce MFA|EDA student, alumni, faculty and visiting artist participation at the 51st Annual New York Film Festival. MFA|EDA students and alumni presenting work are: Marika Borgeson, Erin Espelie, Lisa McCarty and Talena Sanders. In addition, Duke AMI’s Associate Director & Instructor Josh Gibson and Visiting Artist… Continue reading MFA|EDA at the 51st New York Film Festival, Sept 27-Oct 13