#media makers

[coloredcontent]

http://coloredcontent.com/web-series-creators-exclusive-interview-cylla-senii/

[lot29c]

extraordinary project about race and ethnicity

“POV and The New York Times are currently seeking pitches from mediamakers for an extraordinary project about race and ethnicity — one that includes publishing early and often and takes advantage of the unique opportunities that working online provides. Applications are due by Monday, July 25, 2016 at 5 pm ET. More information and complete application instructions are available at pov.org/jobs”

Read entire post: http://www.pbs.org/pov/blog/pressroom/2016/06/call-for-embedded-mediamaker-race-related-nytimes-pov-digital-documentary/

[visionmakermedia]

Jon Cournoyer, (Rosebud Sioux, Sicangu Lakota) is a musician, artist and filmmaker in Los Angeles. In his blog he recounts his experience at the 2012 National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture Conference and NAPT Producer Workshop in Minneapolis, Minnesota. 

[visionmakermedia]

Hey guys! It's still American Graduate week, and we'd like to celebrate it with you by sharing some encouraging words from Native American Graduates! 

[visionmakermedia]

If you haven't already, you should really checkout SuperFly 2012's amazing work in front of the camera and behind the scenes!

SuperFly is an experience to be enjoyed by young Native film and media makers who work with skilled professionals to create a storyboard, shoot and edit their films. It's an amazing opportunity that created some very talented results!

[persephonewillows-blog-blog]

Media Maker's Presentation: “Protest, Memory, Reenactment” by Joe Delappe

“Protest, Memory, Reenactment” by Joe Delappe

On April 14th I attended the Media Makers presentation on Joe Delappe’s digital artwork in University Hall 100 for my VSAR 405 class, and it was quite incredible. He really used innovative ways of expressing his art forms in ways that aren’t typically seen by many contemporary artists. Joe Delappe’s work is definitely within a transitional place between traditional media and new media. He said during his presentation that “you don’t fight the media, become the media.” He presented his innovative art forms within digital media and showed how the use of gaming can really be a powerful tool in protest and reenactment. He enjoyed doing solo performances in first person shooter games as well as his Gandhi performance in Second Life. He also created amazing Gandhi sculptures that were rendered from his actual character in the game, and he was commissioned to do a few of these in the U.S. as well as Belgium, China, and Ireland. He also did various projects within first person shooter games that were military based. This presentation was really great because it focused so much on computerized art forms from video games to cyberspace and digital art. It did however touch upon the problems that society faces, like war, stereotyping and profiling of people. I really felt that Joe Delappe’s Gandhi performance in Second Life was ground breaking, and it made me think of the struggles and sacrifices that people must always make in their lives for the greater good. His digital art projects that were based from military first person shooter games also reminded me of the violence in video games lecture from my VSAR 422 class from May 11th. I feel that Joe’s presentation goes along perfectly with this idea that video games are growing so rapidly and how the use of computerized art forms are taking over the digital realm.