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10 Jul 2007 NAMACStaff

TRUST

Author: 
Margaret Caples
First of all, what makes a partnership work depends on the people involved. For the Community TV Network (CTVN) and the Community Film Workshop of Chicago (CFWC) collaborating on two new projects provides a lesson in what worked for us.

Here is an abbreviated history of both organizations: the Community Film Workshop of Chicago has a 27-year history of training over 800 emerging and mid-career film makers. CFWC has provided film history and aesthetic instruction, equipment/facility access, exhibition, and media literacy and training in schools.

08 Jun 2007 NAMACStaff

Literacy in a Digital World: Teaching and Learning in the Age of Information

Author: 
Kathleen Tyner
Reviewed by Robin Oppenheimer

Kathleen Tyner's book, Literacy in a Digital World, is an exhaustive, well-researched attempt at making sense out of the alphabet soup of multiple literacies found in the rarely intersecting worlds of education, technology, and the arts. This is also a must-read comprehensive guidebook for all artists and educators who want a deeper understanding of the educational theories behind the uses of a wide range of communication media.

Grounded in the world of the media arts, Tyner is unique among many of her peers on the media literacy circuit.

08 Jun 2007 NAMACStaff

Full Tilt Ahead: Intermedia Literacy in the 21st Century

Author: 
Lise Swenson
TILT (Teaching Intermedia Literacy Tools) is a nonprofit organization that teaches and promotes intermedia literacy through hands on experience with media making processes. We are unique in that we bridge the gaps between communities, the arts and education in a manner that is intellectually rigorous yet maintains its grassroots integrity. Our programs encourage people to become life long learners who continually challenge perceptions of the media and intervene in its production.
26 Dec 2004 NAMACStaff

VALUE

Author: 
Kathy High
Picturing a radical future - again! Of course, I know we are in for four more years of eroded rights. Of course, I can anticipate the continued war with Iraq, the capitalist schemes that further only a meager percentage of the population, and battles where church and state are conflated. Of course, the things that I value are devalued: education, history, diversity, culture. We live in a state based on lies and deceit, built on fear and consumption.
04 May 2004 NAMACStaff

Report of the NAMAC 2003 Youth Media Salon

Author: 
Dave Yanofsky
The National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture s Youth Media Initiative includes activities to share and disseminate promising practices from youth media organizations across the United States. Over three weeks in July, nearly 100 youth media professionals participated in an online salon to share stories from the field. Participants focused on the state of youth media, as well as on specific challenges and success stories from the field.

Low Walls: Renssalaer Polytechnic Institute Arts Department

Submitted by NAMACStaff on August 22, 2001 - 9:00pm
Author: 
Patricia R. Zimmermann
“We’ve tried to foster mavericks,” explains Neil Rolnick, electronic composer and chair of the Arts Department at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, in upstate Troy, New York, near the Hudson River. Rewiring virtually everything into new forms permeates hiring decisions, faculty discussions, alumni memories, and administrators’ visions in the department, which seems to harbor pragmatic tinkerers rather than neurotic blowhards. It is an extremely refreshing change from most of the academy. The continual redesign of curricula and degree programs—which typically proceeds glacially at most academic institutions—marks this collective combustion across disciplines in the Arts Department. Everyone I interviewed explained how technological convergence has served as a model for the convergence of arts, ideas, and disciplines.
19 Jun 1999 NAMACStaff

Beyond Technical Training: Video as A Tool For Community Development

Author: 
jesikah maria ross
In our increasingly fragmented and media-focused society, media arts centers are uniquely positioned to bring people together to share arts and culture, create public dialogue, and address local issues. By providing media tools and instruction in their use, these centers are ideal conduits for promoting empowerment, media literacy and social change. In fact, the mission of most media arts organizations from universities to museums to cable access stations centers on facilitating social and community development.