Wed., Nov 18 | 1:10-2PM

Join faculty from the Department of Film & Media Studies, Emerging Media major to learn about the curriculum and ask questions that you may have about classes. The curriculum may be found on the Media Studies major page.

Following an overview of the major, the president of the student club – ESports Game Design Collective will be discussing the student organized collective – what they do, how they meet and how you can join. Following the presentations, faculty will field questions that you may have concerning the curriculum.

IMA alumna Betty Yu’s work at the Queens Museum is featured in The New York Times. Her collage, “Speculating Flushing” (2020), a component of combined media installation “Resistance in Progress” (2020) is on view until Jan. 17th. Her project is part of a group show called, After the Plaster Foundation, or, “Where can we live?”.

IMA alum, Sean Hanley is screening his thesis film, The Whelming Sea at the 13th annual Imagine Science Film Festival on Sat., Oct. 17th as part of the shorts program titled “Animals Speak Up.”

The collection of films in the program ask the audience to engage with the world from a non-human perspective. The Whelming Sea will close out the program line-up by focusing on the entanglement of shorebirds, horseshoe crabs, and human infrastructure during the phenomenal migrations that take place in New York City every spring. The film features the work of IMA Alums Kaija Siirala (sound design), Kevin T. Allen (sound mix), Fivel Rothberg (location sound), and Alex Mallis (score).