Visiting Photojournalist David Degner and the Arab Spring

Via CDS Porch: Acclaimed Middle Eastern–based photojournalist David Degner will visit Duke University to talk about his work at two public events and to speak to undergraduates and students in the MFA in Experimental and Documentary Arts program. The freelance photographer has been based in Egypt for the past three years, living a block from Cairo’s Tahrir Square; he… Continue reading Visiting Photojournalist David Degner and the Arab Spring

MFA|EDA Aaron Canipe and Libi Striegl in Petty Thieves #3

Via Empty Stretch:   Petty Thieves Number Three Posted on October 30, 2013 by thefacelesskid   Petty Thieves Number Three Various Artists 96 pages, saddle stitch, 6x9in Edition of 100 Printer: SmartPress Purchase – 18USD + S/H Featuring: Patrick Joust, Peter Currie, Phil Jackson, Sofie van Dam, Jacob Fogel, Laura Pannack, McNair Evans, Josh Anderson, Carine Wallauer, Justine Tobiasz, Rosaline Shahnavaz, Jason Hanasik, Maureen Drennan, Lloyd Stubber, Mads Greve, Ben Huff, Aimee Pijpers, Libi… Continue reading MFA|EDA Aaron Canipe and Libi Striegl in Petty Thieves #3

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

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

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

MFA|EDA Visiting Artist Jim Dow asks: Is Photography Over?

  Renowned photographer Jim Dow will bring an encyclopedic knowledge of photography and selections from his vast collection of archival slides to discuss the question, “Is Photography Over?,” a free public talk that’s part of his Visiting Artist residency at Duke University’s MFA in Experimental and Documentary Arts program.   Monday, September 30, 5:00 p.m. Full Frame Theater,… Continue reading MFA|EDA Visiting Artist Jim Dow asks: Is Photography Over?

MFA|EDA and the Future of Documentary Education

  Via PBS POV:  THE FUTURE OF DOCUMENTARY EDUCATION:  INSIDE THREE NEW COLLEGE PROGRAMS by Shannon Carroll | Sept 5, 2013 If you could create a documentary degree program in 2013, what would it look like? What skills would you have to teach the filmmakers of tomorrow while the media landscape is changing rapidly and… Continue reading MFA|EDA and the Future of Documentary Education

“Be Still: A Storefront Church in Durham” Photographs by Kristin Bedford

Via CDS Porch: On Thursday, September 12, a reception for an exhibit of photographs by Kristin Bedford will be held on the Duke University campus, with remarks by MFA in Experimental and Documentary Arts director Tom Rankin. Be Still: A Storefront Church in Durham features Bedford’s images of Apostolic Deliverance Rebirth Outreach Ministries in Durham, North Carolina. “On a Sunday in July 2012,… Continue reading “Be Still: A Storefront Church in Durham” Photographs by Kristin Bedford