With a world class faculty and up-to-date production facilities, Hunter College’s Department of Film & Media Studies offers two undergraduate programs of study and an MFA degree in Integrated Media Arts. [more...]
IMA student David Pavlosky and Prof. Tami Gold’s latest film titled PUZZLES: When Hate Came to Town featured on Huffington Post
“Though the homophobic act took place in 2006, the story is just starting to get told now through the documentary Puzzles: When Hate Came to Town, and it resonates strongly in light of the recent rash of anti-LGBT hate crimes.”
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IMA students Laura Hadden and Tennessee Watson “Wage/Working” project addresses the issues of income inequality through a collection of stories about the working lives of residents in Greene and Columbia counties.
[RADICAL] SIGNS OF LIFE
AND bring an expressive virtual world populated by corporeal sounds and generative imagery from dancers’ bodies to a wider audience.
[radical] signs of life is one of the first large-scale uses of biotechnology to integrate networked bodies and interactive dance.
Through responsive dance, [radical] signs of life externalizes the mind’s non-hierarchical distribution of thought. Music is generated from the dancers‘ muscles and blood flow via biophysical sensors that capture sound waves from the performers’ bodies. This data triggers complex neural patterns to be projected onto multiple screens as 3D imagery. As the audience interacts with the images produced, they enter into a dialogue with the dancers.
