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Essays for
Media Arts and Technology
Beyond Disability: The Fe Fe Stories
A video project by disabled teen girls in Chicago sparks personal growth. By Jennifer Roche
(December 2004)
Community Arts and Technology: Confessions of a Quiet Practitioner
Overview from the founding co-director of the Center for Digital Storytelling. By Joe Lambert
(May 2002)
Culture After Saddam: Video Artists Restore a Country's Identity in Iraqi Kurdistan
Article on the work of Iraqi Kurdish video artists and filmmakers who provided first-hand perspective on life in northern Iraq after the Gulf War of 1991. Published in High Performance #65, Vol. XVII, No. 1, 1994. By Ann Zimmerman
(December 1999)
Deep Dish TV
The world's first public access satellite network identifies and amplifies the voices of disenfranchised cultures who struggle for equal time. Published in High Performance #61, Vol. XVI, No. 1, 1993. By Linda Yablonska
(December 1999)
Digitizing the Extended Family
A project linking African-American geneology and history with photography. Published in High Performance #67, Vol. XVII, No. 3, 1994. By Joyce Fernandes
(December 1999)
Euro Bytes
Review of the book "New Media Culture in Europe." By Robin Oppenheimer
(March 2000)
Eye of the Storm: Reflections on Violence
Words and images from a domestic-violence project at Savannah's Union Mission. By David Jeffreys
(May 2007)
South Dakota Celebrates a Black Pioneer
A tiny town on the northern plains is going down in African-American film history. By Susan Stoneback
(July 2006)
States of Shock & Unknowing: On Documenting the Wake of Katrina & Rita in Southern Louisiana
The making of a shocking video on America's environmental disaster. Includes video clips. By John Sullivan
(April 2006)
The "Place: Vision and Voice" Program – Power, Authenticity and Ethics
An ASU professor on her community art project in the Gila River Community of Arizona. By Stephani Etheridge Woodson
(May 2004)
The 1000 Kites Summit: A Community Arts Focus Group
An example of cross-sector thinking that's integrating the arts into real-world change. By Linda Frye Burnham
(October 2007)
The Path of Stories: Artists and The Thousand Kites Project
A long, deep look into a multi-arts collaboration that's starting a national conversation about the U.S. prison industrial complex. Includes video. By Arlene Goldbard
(May 2008)
The Walking Project: Desire Lines, Walking and Mapping Across Continents
Walk & Squawk Performance Project uses the paths people make across Detroit and South Africa to explore how our paths are formed through culture, geography, language, economics and love. By Erika Block
(June 2005)
Virtual Reality Warriors: Native American Culture in Cyberspace
A pre-WWW Information Age revolution among Native Americans. Published in
High Performance #57, Vol. XV, No. 1, 1992. By Patric Hedlund
(December 1999)
Whose Agenda Is It, Anyway? Documentary Burdens, Community Benefits
History and theory of the documentary arts from the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. By Lynn McKnight
(August 2003)
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