Month: November 2013

IMA student Chris Nostrand wins award for Garbage Girl

IMA student Chris Nostrand won the Terry Rouche Audience Choice Award for Garbage Girl at the Underexposed Film Festival in South Carolina. IMA student Kayoko Nakamura worked on Camera 2 on the film. Chris Nostrand has been documenting other events on his trip to the film festival on Garbage Girl Films on Facebook.

Prof. Kelly Anderson’s My Brooklyn featured on LandofOpportunity

Outtakes from Prof. Kelly Anderson’s My Brooklyn is featured in In With the New, Out With the Old, a multilayered interactive piece on LandofOpportunity. It features Rahsun Houston, a character in My Brooklyn, walking around the “new” Downtown Brooklyn, and includes opportunities to branch out and view a rich assortment of related videos, documents and web links, and to comment and read other viewers comments.

LandofOpportunity is an experimental web platform that explores post-crisis community rebuilding in America. The innovative platform merges compelling multimedia storytelling with curated data, research, and calls to action in one collaborative interactive space.

IMA alum Dylan Gauthier’s demonstration at the Boston Center for the Arts

IMA alum Dylan Gauthier’s boatbuilding collective Mare Liberum will be in Boston as a part of an exhibition at Boston Center for the Arts, Mills Gallery. On Saturday, November 16th, they will be giving a demonstration of their 1860’s paper boatbuilding technique and giving a talk about the “frontiers” of gentrification and Urban wilderness corridors as an alternative to urban parks. The event will take place from 10:00AM to 1:00PM.

river landscape with information on Mills Gallery