Survival Strategies for the Arts
Blog Author: John R. Killacky There's no question to me but that the arts organizations that have dynamic, interactive, authentic relationships with their constituents, audiences, and neighbors are the...
View ArticleEleven Miles from the Continental Divide
Author: Brian Hearn It rained that afternoon. Not much lightning to speak of. We fishtailed over muddy roads for about an hour. Our location was really lost as far as I was concerned. There was...
View ArticleFilm Studies as Social Media 2.0, or the New Media Ecosystems of Virtual...
Blog Author: Patricia R. ZimmermannThe Big Question Film studies online? Impossible, you say? This winter term, I took the dive. I gulped down the red pill and jacked into the matrix of online film...
View ArticleShepard Fairey vs. the AP: Did Hope Win?
Author: Kara Hadge After its iconic role in President Obama’s 2008 campaign, could Shepard Fairey’s Obama “HOPE” Portrait now become a poster for the debates over intellectual property and copyright?...
View ArticleRemix and Media Literacy: An Interview with video artist Elisa Kreisinger
Author: Vicki Callahan My initial foray as NAMAC blogger can be seen as a parallel text or a continuation of the conversation initiated by Patricia Zimmerman’s fine posting the other day, Film...
View ArticleQ&A: Ingrid Kopp, Shooting People
Author: Rachel Allen Ingrid Kopp is the director of Shooting People in the US – an international networking organization for independent filmmakers with over 38,000 members. I had the opportunity to...
View ArticleArt Realities: Documentary Films For Your Consideration
Author: Brian Hearn Art moves me. I’m inspired by artists and their means of production. Art exhibition fascinates me. Even the art market is of interest despite its inherent injustice and excesses....
View ArticleStravinsky, Mahler and Projections Over the Edge
Blog Author: Patricia R. ZimmermannLast night in the intimate Iger Recital Hall at Ithaca College in upstate New York, baritone Brad Hougham and pianist Deborah Martin reminded me why I love...
View ArticleA Dream Walking
Blog Author: Brian HearnThe Oklahoma City Museum of Art's Film Curator Brian Hearn explores his love for celluloid through recounting his experience loaning out a film print of a 1934 Popeye cartoon, A...
View ArticleThey Make It Look Easy: CIFF’s Lights! Camera! Action Steps! and more
Author: Linda Blackaby NAMAC Blogger Linda Blackaby writes about the Cleveland International Film Festival's innovative audience engagement strategies.read more
View ArticleAnd the Topic for Thursday's Media Exhibition Open Dialogue is...
Author: Rachel Allen Our panelists have voted and the three topics that rose to the top are:read more
View ArticleOpen Dialogue on Media Exhibition: Wrap Up
Author: Rachel Allen Did you miss this week's Open Dialogue on Media Exhibition? Here's a summary.read more
View ArticleIn Search of the Ideal Media Experience
Blog Author: Amy PuffenbergerNAMAC Blogger Amy Puffenberger considers the criteria for creating "the ideal media experience".read more
View ArticleA Dialogue on Contemporary Forms of Censorship in the Media Arts
Author: Marcia Brady Images are powerful. We know this. Ever since people started expressing themselves through image and sound other people have tried to influence and interfere with those...
View ArticleReading the World Through Sound
Blog Author: Roddy SchrockEyebeam's Associate Director of Residencies RoddySchrock shares his enthusiasm for two artists – one who is making pictures from music and another who is making music from...
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