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Weds. Mar. 24th | 2:00-3:30PM
Zoom Link: https://zoom.us/j/2258470135

Great opportunity to learn about the documentary course offerings and why a documentary major is important.  Meet the faculty. See short films produced by our students. Have your questions answered.

Agenda
1- Welcome – Prof. Tami Gold
2- What is the Documentary Sequence – Prof. Marty Lucas
3- Profs. Marty Lucas, Michael Gitlin, Shanti Thakur, Tami Gold, Kelly Anderson briefly explain classes.
4- Screening of student work from doc classes
5- Q&A

Profs. Andrew Demirjian and Mark Ramos will be exhibiting new work in the New Museum’s First Look: New Art Online series.  There will be a public talk called “Further Experiments in Art & Technology” next week on Weds., March 17th | 12PM. This project is a collaboration between NEW INC, Rhizome and Nokia Bell Labs.

More than 50 students turned out to hear journalist Ali Velshi talk about his long and storied reporting career with CNN and MSNBC, in a riveting discussion moderated by former CNN correspondent Mary Snow followed by a Q&A moderated by Professor Sissel McCarthy. 

Velshi’s reporting from Minneapolis in the wake of George Floyd’s murder last May, where he and his news crew were attacked at shot at with rubber bullets by Minneapolis police merely for doing their jobs, resonated with students the most. “Seeing the police fire on the media was surprising to me,” one student wrote of the clip Velshi showed of his team in Minneapolis. “I guess it was the first time I noticed the distrust and disdain for the media held by some Americans.” Others were impressed that President Donald Trump knew of Velshi enough to slander him publicly at a rally. “Yes, there may be some issues with media and journalism, but it should never be a reason to discredit them in such a manner,” one wrote.