We combine do-it-yourself (DIY) aesthetics and cultural theory to explore the role that media technologies play in everyday life.
As a student majoring in media, society, and the arts, you will locate yourself within the media landscape through critical writing, experimentation, and creative projects. Our approach to media is deeply grounded in ethnographic research.
MEDIA, SOCIETY & the ARTS
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MEDIA, SOCIETY & the ARTS at Purchase - critical theory and critical practice.
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Carl Deal screened Citizen Koch right before the 2016 elections.
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Amanda Lepore, the world’s most famous transsexual and an effervescent fixture on the New York scene had a conversation with Professor Jason Pine (2016)
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Professor Lorraine Plourde hosted an artists’ talk with musician and writer Professor David Grubbs from the Conservatory of Music, Brooklyn College, CUNY. (2012)
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Special screening of “Errol Morris: A Lightning Sketch” with Q&A with co-directors Charles Musser and Carina Tautu (2011).
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Visual Artist David Kelley gave a talk "Residues of a Dream World: The High Line’s Photographic Practices" 2013
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GUESTS FALL 2016
Andrea Arai – author, gave a talk “From Battle Royale to Tokyo Sonata: The Child and Strange-Changed Times in Japan”
Carl Deal – film director and producer, screened Citizen Koch followed by a Q&A
Abou Farman – artist and anthropologist, gave a performative talk featuring protons, smells, tumors, shamans, insects, physicians and blindfolds
Melina Moore, Kel Morin, Daniel Jones, and Max Mauro drag artists, provided a roundtable discussion about technology, gender, and drag
Nick Shapiro – critic and practitioner of environmental monitoring and a researcher of chemical infrastru
Alexander Zaitchik – freelance journalist, spoke about his book The Gilded Rage and other storiesctures delivered a multimedia lecture