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Class acts: CMCI’s new faculty bring new ideas on A.I., identity, culture to Boulder

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Class acts: CMCI’s new faculty bring new ideas on A.I., identity, culture to Boulder Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 08/22/2024 - 14:16

By Joe Arney
Photo by Kimberly Coffin (CritMedia, StratComm'18)

When asked why they choose the University of Colorado Boulder, students and faculty alike tend to cite its location, along with academic prestige, research successes and access to opportunity.

That was a big draw for Joe Izaguirre III, as well. But it wasn’t the mountains he had in mind when he signed on as an assistant professor of communication at the College of Media, Communication and Information.

Izaguirre studies how political power influences Latin identities from the lens of public rhetoric and rhetorical histories. Plenty of the source material for his book includes texts produced by activists who lived in the Colorado area.

“I hadn’t thought of this, but I’ll be able to hand-deliver the book to families who participated, instead of just dropping it in the mail,” he said. “It feels like an opportunity to have a more personal connection to the things I’ve been studying.”

Izaguirre is among the seven new tenure-track faculty joining CMCI this fall. The college also is welcoming seven nontenure-track faculty, including new appointments for professors who previously held different roles.

“I’m so excited to welcome our new faculty to CMCI,” said Lori Bergen, founding dean of the college. “As the media, communication, design and information landscape continues to dramatically change, the new perspectives these professors bring will ensure our students get a cutting-edge, immediately applicable education.”

“It was a great experience, as an instructor, to be able to work with students who were that interested in learning and participating.”
Dinfin K. Mulupi, assistant professor, journalism

Design thinking

For the first time, this year’s incoming cohort includes faculty from the environmental design program, which formally integrated with CMCI over the summer. Though there are no changes for current students, faculty in the program are enthusiastic about the chance to collaborate with colleagues eager to explore new applications for their work.

Martín Paddack, a teaching associate professor who joins CMCI and ENVD following seven years at Howard University, has a wealth of interests around architecture and sustainability, including participatory design—“understanding how we identify where there is need and trying to create connections with community for design.”

“I always try to inculcate into students that it’s not about coming up with an idea and saying, here’s the answer,” said Paddack, who also is founder and principal of the Washington, D.C.-based DesignMAP firm. “It comes down to communication—asking the right questions and really listening so you can identify where the needs are. If you are prescriptive, and don’t listen to your community, that’s when design starts to fail.”

Paddack brings a diverse set of interests—architecture, sustainability, social responsibility, writing, painting, woodworking—to the classroom, as well as a global perspective: He was born in Puerto Rico and raised in Peru and Uruguay before moving to D.C. as a boy. He also taught in South America and completed a painting residency in Barcelona. He helped set up a fabrication lab at Howard to ensure students developed both practical architecture experience.

“That’s something I really like about environmental design at ��Ƶ—the focus on how we can apply sustainable principles across four different areas, and an emphasis on doing hands-on fabrication so that students learn the theory, but also how to apply it,” he said.

‘Great experience’ connecting with students

Most new faculty who join CMCI say they feel an instant rapport with professors in their departments, which makes the college feel like home well before they start. That was true for Dinfin K. Mulupi, as well, but she felt an equally strong connection to the journalism students she taught as part of the interview process.

“I was fascinated by their interest in learning the research behind journalism practices,” said Mulupi, a native of Kenya who came to CMCI via the PhD program at the University of Maryland, College Park.

A discussion she led critiquing news coverage of immigration, Mulupi said, sparked so much insightful discussion that she felt bad moving on to the next topic.

“It was a great experience, as an instructor, to be able to work with students who were that interested in learning and participating,” she said. “When you’re a professor, you are creating knowledge with your students, and they were so attentive and involved that I know it will be a privilege to teach them.”

Mulupi’s research looks at sexism and sexual harassment in newsrooms, and came from working on her thesis as the #MeToo movement gained momentum. She was among the first scholars to explore the topic in Kenyan newsrooms; her work has since expanded to more than 20 countries.

It’s an important topic at a time when the news industry is contracting, as “when you have a newsroom culture with sexism, harassment, racism and bigotry, you lose talented journalists who don’t feel safe and included,” she said. “I am also focusing on solutions, especially exploring how we can build safer, more inclusive newsrooms that produce news content that serves the diverse needs and interests of a wider audience.”

Pooja Iyer, who joined CMCI from the University of Texas Austin, where she completed her doctoral work in the spring. She’s also doing timely work, researching the ethics around how advertising firms collect and use data in the course of connecting to consumers.

“In my industry days, I realized my own cognitive dissonance—asking how granular we could get on a target audience while having ad blockers on my computer,” said Iyer, an assistant professor in the Department of Advertising, Public Relations and Media Design. “I believe the advertising world can play a more ethical role in how and why they’re using data, and how they’re protecting customers—because there isn’t enough literacy around this.”

It’s something her student will need to consider as they graduate, she said.

“Whether you’re in creative, account management, media planning, it doesn’t matter—you will be working with data,” Iyer said. “So, how can we best empower you to be ethical about the use of that data? As educators, that really needs to be front and center for our students.”

Incoming professors bring an interest in cutting-edge topics at a time when the media landscape is undergoing dramatic change.

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DCMP Awards and News: Jan. 2021

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Grants

Kevin Sweet, (PhD candidate in ETMAP) and Sarah McCormick (MArt'20) co-authored and were awarded a $850,000 state grant with History Colorado and Kimba Rael of Centennial School District R-1 in San Luis, Colorado, to integrate local history and media practices into the curriculum and to develop a media 'innovation lab' for the students. This award represents a critical pedagogical intervention that places local students, teachers and communities at the center of curriculum development, using media as a catalyst for change.

New Faculty

The Department of Critical Media Practices is proud to welcome four new faculty members to our ranks. Thank you to CMCI Dean Lori Bergen, the staff in the CMCI Dean's Office, and the Search Committees and Promotion and Tenure committees who worked to make these hires possible. We are especially grateful to cognate faculty in Communication, Information Science, Cinema Studies and Moving Image Arts, Theater and Dance, ATLAS, and Art and Art History who supported us in promoting these hires.

August Black, Assistant Professor of Critical Media Practices
Tomas Laurenzo, Associate Professor of Critical Media Practices
Roshanna Sylvester, Associate Professor of Critical Media Practices and Digital Humanities
Thorsten Trimpop, Associate Professor of Critical Media Practices

Program News

PhD in Emerging Technology and Media Art Practice (ETMAP) is now STEM designated!
The PhD in Emerging Technologies and Media Art Practice in the Department of Critical Media Practices is now a STEM designated degree. The designation, which is conferred upon eligible degree programs that include science, technology, engineering and mathematics training, allows international students who graduate from the program to qualify for STEM OPT and remain in the U.S. for an additional 24 months, beyond the regular 12-month option. This is a wonderful opportunity for current and prospective international students and we are proud to be able to support them in this way. Thanks to the team who worked on this effort, including Associate Professor Tara Knight, Associate Chair of Graduate Studies Chris Hammons and ETMAP PhD candidate Toma Peiu.

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DCMP News: Jan. 2021

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DCMP News: Jan. 2021 Anonymous (not verified) Wed, 01/27/2021 - 15:00

ETMAP PhD candidate Renata Carvalho Baretto presented her paper, “Against Linearity – Zózimo Bulbul and the Brazilian colonial archive,” at the conference Reframing Africa, hosted virtually by the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa.

She was also a guest lecturer at the University of Oxford Brookes in England, lecturing on “Post-colonial Archives and the role of the British in the Modern Atlantic human trafficking.”

Baretto will present her paper, "From the word to the law – Converging concepts of decoloniality across disciplines," at the NCAIS (Newberry Center for American Indigenous Studies) Graduate Student Conference, to be held virtually from Feb. 2 through 4, 2021.

ETMAP PhD candidate Bentley Brown’s feature-length film, Revolution from Afar, in which Sudanese-American artists are cut off from the 2019 revolution in Sudan, participated virtually in more than 20 film festivals throughout the pandemic, beginning with Visions du Réel and most recently with the British Council's No Direct Flight film series, as well as the ongoing Arab Film Fest Collab. The film was recently acquired by the United Nations International Organization of Migration (IOM) to be screened in its missions around the world and will be making its New York premiere in February as part of the Film at Lincoln Center Virtual Cinema. Revolution from Afar has also been nominated for Best Diaspora Documentary at the Africa Movie Academy Awards.

Brown’s film, First Feature, depicting a team of mostly women making a movie before the legalization of cinema in Saudi Arabia, made its online premiere on Short of the Week, and Brown also served as editor of the Infectious Diseases Society of America's COVID-19 podcast.

Instructor Pat Clark is working with the Niwot Business Association to scan several large sculptures by artist Eddie Running Wolf. The 3D scans will assist in preservation efforts currently underway to save the large tree carvings. The sculptures are currently located in the Niwot Sculpture Park and Outdoor Gallery.

Assistant Professor Erin Espelie's work was screened with the Spectral Film Festival during November and at London’s Deptford Cinema in December. She is helping to host author Robin Wall Kimmerer with Andrew W. Mellon support for a Sawyer Seminar on Environmental Futures. Kimmerer's public talk was held Dec. 8.

LecturerKeely Kernan is working on a feature length documentary film entitled Under the Valley. The film takes place in the San Luis Valley and explores the depleting Rio Grande aquifer and the struggle to manage the scarcity of water in the West.

Her short film, Of the Basin, screened at the Imagine Science Film Festival, the New Orleans International Film Festival and the Society for Visual Anthropology Film and Media Festival in the fall of 2020. And her short film, Nibi Walk, which is part of an interactive documentary funded by the Princess Grace Award in film, recently made its film festival rounds and will screen at the Environmental Film Festival Australia in the spring of 2021.

ETMAP PhD candidate Minso Kim’s abstract, "Indoor species and their near future: sensory experiences of the interior architecture," has been accepted to the AMPS (Architecture, Media, Politics and Society) conference, which will be held in June.

Her design project, "Ivy Curtain," has been accepted to the Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) conference in the category of Main Design Competition. The conference will be held in March.

LecturerLuiza Parvurecently joined the programming committee of the Mimesis Documentary Festival in Boulder. A fiction feature film she recently edited, The Salt in Our Waters(directed by Rezwan Shahriar Sumit, Bangladesh-France), is currently on the international festival circuit and played at the Goteborg and Kolkata Film Festivals in January. The film has made appearances in venues including BFI London, Busan and Singapore. Parvu is currently editing Flying Lessons (directed by Elizabeth Nichols), a documentary feature about the intersection of art and housing rights in New York's Lower East Side and the feature film she shot and directed, Ubi Bene Ibi Patria, co-directed by Toma Peiu.

ETMAP PhD candidate and graduate instructor Toma Peiucontinues to work on his ethnographic media project on migration between former Soviet Central Asia and Brooklyn, New York, with more outputs to be released in 2021.

Peiu, in collaboration with Luiza Parvu, will present during the panel Encountering Reality as Crisis: Documentary, Ethnographic Media and Education at the upcoming RAI Film Festival and Conference, Creative Engagement with Crisis, to be held remotely between March 19-28. Peiu and Parvu’s photo series, Space Flows, will be featured in the online exhibition Three River Histories: Naryn-Syr Darya, organized by the University of Tubingen's Department of Anthropology in collaboration with local partners in Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.

Associate Professor Roshanna Sylvester gave several presentations at the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Annual Convention in November. As part of a roundtable on “Technological and Scientific Vestiges of Socialism: Infrastructure, Institutions and Cultural/Educational Programs Across the 1989/1991 Divide,” she discussed the STEM gender gap in the former Soviet Union, looking specifically at generational differences following the collapse of communism. She also participated in a lively roundtable, “Rebellious Archives: Anxieties and Opportunities,” which explored the creative possibilities and limitations of working with (and relying on) digital facsimiles.

ETMAP PhD candidate Josh Westerman was selected as a post-doctoral fellow to collaborate on public art and engagement with Professor Tyler Kelly at the University of Birmingham UK in the field of mirror symmetry and pure maths. The post-doc is part of a the UK Future Leaders and Innovation Grant and will begin in 2022.

Lecturer and ETMAP certificate holder Sean Winters is working with Reality Garage on a project for the Colorado Music Festival. He recorded and produced ambisonic audio for an ongoing series of XR experiences featuring the renowned Takács string quartet performing at the Chautauqua auditorium, and the first production, an immersive VR experience, was publicized as the official opening night event of DCMP’s first ever virtual music festival.

Lecturer Rebecca Zinner's (MCritMedia'18) short film, I Was Expecting More Fires, recently premiered at the Horsetooth International Film Festival. A departure from her usual documentary work, this piece revisits her childhood anxiety around a potential house fire through live action narrative, animation and hand-processed 16mm film. She is also screening films for the 2021 Boulder International Film Festival as a second-year member of the Festival's Selection Committee.

Zinner is looking forward to continuing research for her next film––a documentary about bias in medicine and how it negatively impacts patients––and hosted more Sporadic Chat events for DCMP during winter break.

Updates from DCMP faculty, graduate students and lecturers

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DCMP Faculty Updates February 2020

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DCMP Faculty Updates February 2020 Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 02/17/2020 - 16:30

Associate Professor Reece Auguiste is co-editing a book tentatively titled African Cinema: Modernity and Moving Image Culture, which is in the final stages of chapter revisions before submitting the manuscript to peer reviewers in January and then to press in summer 2020. He also submitted an article titled “Visible Things Unseen: Co-creation and Its Philosophical Turn,” which will appear in AfterImage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism, Vol.47. No.1 this March. He peer-reviewed an article for Feminist Media Histories: An International Journal and another article for The Journal of Media Practice and Education. Auguiste presented a paper titled “Can the Archive Speak? In Search of the Interior Life of Archives” at the Reframing Africa: Future Archives conference hosted by the University of Witwatersrand, and at The Market Photo Workshop in Johannesburg, in October 2019.

Assistant Professor Betsey Biggs is continuing work on MELT. She also held a laptop performance as part of the Musical Ecologies series in New York City. She has a soundtrack coming out in April for her music film, MELT: The Memory of Ice.

Instructor Pat Clark recently presented Pathways to Mixed Reality: Oral History, the i-Doc, and the Archive at the 2019 Oral History Association’s Annual Meeting. This multi-dimensional immersive media project highlights landscape photography and the environment. He was also awarded a grant through Open��Ƶ Boulder to adopt Online Educational Resources (OER) as an alternative to high-cost course materials.

Instructor Eric Coombs Esmail, director of the Center for Documentary and Ethnographic Media, along with the center's associate director, Instructor Christian Hammons, completed a short film, Rumor, which will premiere at a major festival this year. They also completed principal photography on their grant-funded documentary feature, American Refuge, about homelessness in the national forests of the American West. The project received the Audience Award at the Society for Visual Anthropology Pitch Fest at the annual conference of the American Anthropological Association in Vancouver. As director and associate director of the Center for Documentary and Ethnographic Media, the pair launched Mimesis, a grant-funded program to transform the center into a hub of documentary media production on campus, in the Western U.S., and beyond. The center now offers masterclasses, microgrants and support for project development, fundraising, production, distribution, and outreach, and it will debut the Mimesis Documentary Festival later this year.

Assistant Professor Erin Espelie had a solo show in Los Angeles at the Egyptian Theater with the L.A. Film Forum, where she premiered her new film Tenebrio molitor and a night of short films at the Regulator Gallery in Norman, Oklahoma. In August she was invited to install her film Silent Springs on site at the Sagehen Creek Field Station in northern California. She recently published in the Brooklyn Rail, and she plans to chair a panel at the 2020 Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference entitled, Deep Horizons: Examining the Spectrum of Uneven Ecocide & Enduring Futures.

Associate Professor Tara Knight’s short animation film Unsettled continued to be presented in a wide array of venues in 2019 - from the top animation festival in the world (Annecy, the "Cannes of Animation"), to a program on the history of "Animation and the Fine Arts" (Zagreb), to a US tour with Black Maria Film Festival (Director's Choice Award). Current iterations of her collaborative Sound Planetarium VR project were invited to be presented at conferences for art and technologists (Museum of Science Boston), for live performance designers (Live Design International), and for astrophysicists (University of Liege, Belgium). The animated video projection Knight created for the theatrical performance The Great Wave at the Berkeley Rep was reviewed as "handsome," "intricate," "stunning," "breathtakingly immersive," and "bone-rattling, eye-popping." Knight also received the 2019 William R. Payden Award for Faculty Teaching and Research Excellence.

Professor and Department Chair Teri Rueb published a chapter in the Routledge Companion to Mobile Media Art (Routledge, June 2020). This month, she’s attending a gathering of Critical Media Study program heads at the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University, along with DCMP doctoral student Toma Peiu. The universities represented will include University of the Arts, London; Université Paris Sciences et Lettres; and Goldsmiths, University of London. This month she’ll also be presenting as part of the Harvard Graduate School of Design’s alumni talks. She is currently collaborating with Roberto Azaretto, a DCMP doctoral student, and Jiffer Harriman, lecturer out of ATLAS, on a commission from the Fiske Planetarium to create a sonic mobile experience based on the scaled solar system model installed on campus. And, she is exhibiting work in the group show, Charting the World: Subjective Map Making at Suffolk University in Boston, which runs from Jan. 30 through Feb. 27.

Instructor Jason Sanford recently finished composing an album’s worth of material, tentatively titled Complications on a label based in Prague called Silver Rocket, which will be forthcoming in May. He will tour Europe this coming summer. He is also working on a Black Box project in collaboration with ATLAS Professor Ellen Yi-Luen Do, and is doing the sound design for a dance performance featuring Helanius Wilkins, who will perform as part of the show MULTISCAPES at the Black Box on March 6 and 7.

Assistant Professor Stephanie Spray has been invited to present work at a retreat hosted by Science Sandbox at the National Academy of Sciences. She is also one of 16 directors invited to present nonfiction work in the 2020 Sundance Talent Forum and has been invited to CPH:DOX in Copenhagen to pitch her feature film, Patagonia Park. Her chapter for the Routledge Handbook for Ethnographic Film and Video will be published this April. She continues to work on both of her feature films: Edge of Time and Patagonia Park.

Instructor Andrew Young is currently in the review phase on his article “’Dark Tourism and Rwandan Media Industries: Promoting Nation and the Mythology of Memory” in the Journal of Genocide Research. He is teaching a new video game theory class this semester, which he’ll likely adapt into an article about a critical media practices approach to teaching game theory. Additionally, his research on Rwandan film and nationalism was accepted for presentation at the 2020 Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, and his paper on Religion and Rwandan print media was accepted to the 2020 American Cultural Association/Popular Culture Association Conference.

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DCMP PhD Updates February 2020

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DCMP PhD Updates February 2020 Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 02/17/2020 - 16:28

Laurids Andersen Sonne screened his film Passerine in Time at the Sharjah Film Platform held at the Sharjah Art Foundation in December 2019. His film Monolithography was shown at Revolutions Per Minute in Boston on Feb. 2.

Roberto Azaretto's solo piano work, lago. paisajismo abstracto. 2., was performed by Bruno Mesz on Dec. 15 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, as part of the Tempus Fugit Art Festival.

Kimberley Bianca recently designed scenography and performed audiovisual media for Kurtág - Attila József Fragments, along with opera singer Judit Molnar, on Nov. 29 in Brisbane, Australia. For her second semester in the ETMAP PhD, she is launching circuitBoard, a series of media arts meetups for prototyping in a collaborative environment to encourage dialogue around sustainable use of technology in the arts. The first meetup is at Boulder Public Library on Feb. 24 and is open to participants.

Bentley Brown’s feature film Revolution from Afar made its world premiere at the Sudan Independent Film Festival, in partnership with the Goethe Institut, in January. The film depicts Sudanese-American musical artists in a discussion around third culture identity and the 2019 revolution in Sudan, from which they were physically cut off. Also in January, Bentley completed his second trip to the Red Sea Lodge filmmaking residency hosted by the Torino Film Lab in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. In December, Bentley's short film Terrorist Number Four, a satire of racial profiling in the film industry, won an Award of Recognition at Taiwan's Formosa Film Festival; his sound project The Sounds of Black Holes Colliding, exploring the sonification of gravitational wave data released by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, was exhibited in the Production Methods Showcase.

Eliseo Ortiz will present his most recent piece, Mexico I USA, at the International Symposium for Visual Culture 2020, to be held in Georgetown, Washington, D.C., and at CICA Museum in South Korea. He is currently in the review phase on his article, “(Re)constructing the political space of the jigsaw puzzle,” to be published in Contemporaneity: Historical Presence in Visual Culture.

Toma Peiu completed two months of preliminary dissertation fieldwork and production in Brooklyn, New York. In January, he and educator and writer Nelesi Rodriguez (University of Pittsburgh) facilitated the workshop Is “There” Necessarily Not “Here”? A Study of Home at Imagined Borders, Epistemic Freedoms, the international conference of the Center for Media, Religion and Culture and SIMAGINE. With Professor Teri Rueb, he will contribute to the workshop Artistic Practice in the Research University, convened by the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University, in February 2020. In March, Toma will be a featured speaker at the CMCI One College Symposium - Immigration and Borders: Politics of Movement and Poetics of the Frontier. Over the Spring, his ViewMaster piece, Message in a Bottle, will be a part of Three River Stories, a community exhibition in Shamaldy-Sai, Kyrgyzstan and Qazaly, Kazakhstan. With geographer Maria Hagan (Cambridge University) he has convened and will be co-chairing “Mapping the Migrant Experience: Places, Affect and Imaginaries from the Margins,” a mixed-methods panel at the joint biennial conference of the Royal Anthropological Institute and the Royal Geographical Society - The British Museum / SOAS, in June. With long-term collaborator, Root Films co-founder and Department of Critical Media Practices Lecturer Luiza Parvu he continues to work on the feature documentary film Ubi Bene Ibi Patria, and on the development stages of an ethno-fiction feature on fieldwork, gender and surveillance. The two recently collaborated with choreographer Kristen Holleyman on her short film A Palavra.

Justin Trupiano’s visual simulation of fluid flow was recently unveiled as part of a permanent installation for the lobby of the new Smead Aerospace Engineering Sciences Building. Other visualizations by Trupiano are currently on display at the Fiske Planetarium, including an interactive display of the surface of the sun and a 3D LED cube showing the connection of earth’s magnetic fields to the aurora.

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DCMP September Graduate Student Updates

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DCMP September Graduate Student Updates Anonymous (not verified) Tue, 10/01/2019 - 11:50

Roberto Azarettorecently received a PhD in music composition from SUNY in Buffalo, New York. Two of his works have been performed in Buffalo this year: Eigengrau, for four instruments, was premiered in April by the Australian Ensemble Elision and Verfremdungen, and M (2) was premiered by the Hayley-Laufer duo in May.

Bentley Brown screened A Film Crew Censors Itself at Ars Electronica in Linz, Austria. The film premiered at the Dallas International Film Festival and will soon be shown in Indonesia and Egypt, as well as at the Arab Film Festival in San Francisco. Brown's film, First Feature, traveled to numerous venues around the world––including the International Film Festival in Rotterdam as well as venues in New Mexico, Beirut, France, Italy, Iraq and the United Arab Emirates. Jeddah Vlog, a fictional mini-series produced in Saudi Arabia, premiered online and was acquired by the distribution company Vrt. His Chad-made film, The Last Cassette Tape Studio, premiered in competition at the Ismailia Film Festival in Egypt. Another 2019 film, Nadoum Glâce, was nominated for the Young African Filmmaker Award of the Afrika Film Festival in Leuven, Belgium. Brown premiered his first video installation, Taghtiis (Submersion), in the Metamorphosis Critical Media Practices exhibit. He also published two articles on Africa is a Country: "An African Film Manifesto, Forty Years Later" and "The Disidentification of Mahamat Saleh Haroun.”

Minso Kim published the study, “Newly Generated Rituals in the Age of Digital Technology,” in Virtual Creativity. Last February, she participated in a panel on speculative environmental futures at the Anthropocene Resonance: Interdisciplinary Approaches Symposium, held at the University of Colorado Art Museum. She also presented “Blurring Borders Between the Real and Digital Worlds” as part of the 25th International Symposium on Electronic Arts in Gwangju, South Korea. In October, she will present “Being Close to Nature While in Indoor Spaces” at the BEA On Location Symposium. Finally, her prototypical project, “Shadow of Stars,” was included in the #Others section on the Future Architecture platform.

Eliseo Ortiz’s work was presented at the Currents New Media collective exhibition in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He also opened a solo show of his recent critical game, “The Choreography of Us,” at El Expendio Proyectos in Monterrey, Mexico. He recently received a prize from CONARTE, the Council of Culture and Arts, in Mexico. His films screened at the San Diego Underground Film Festival and the Human and Non-Human Migration and Mobility Symposium at the University of Brighton in England. He also participated in the 65th Robert Flaherty Film Seminar.

Toma Peiu spent the summer in Madison, Wisconsin, researching the Rzhevsky Collection at the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research, and studying at the Central Eurasian Studies Summer Intensive. In 2019, he presented work at five major international conferences, including the Conference on College Composition and Communication in Pittsburgh and the RAI Film Festival in England. After screening at the Astra Film Festival in Romania and at the Inca Imperial Film Festival in Peru, If Objects Could Speak, the short documentary film he co-directed with Luiza Parvu, will be screened at Oaxaca X in Mexico. Their most recent installation, The Sea Was Here, premiered at NEST’s WILD | TAME exhibition. This month, the Red Star Line Museum in Antwerp, Belgium, will host a presentation on Peiu and Parvu’s work in migration-themed documentary and fiction. This fall, Peiu is serving as a visiting professor at the "Berdakh" Karakalpak State University in Nukus, Uzbekistan.

Joseph Steele presented the film Archives and Dust––made in the National Snow and Ice Data Center’s library and archive––and a performative lecture, as part of NEST's WILD | TAME exhibition. His work was supported by a NEST Fellowship with lichenologist Carly Anderson Stewart and stream ecologist Christa Torrens, both PhD candidates in the ��Ƶ Boulder Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. This month, Steele and the University of Cambridge’s Emma Gomis are presenting INSTALLATION 26––a film with performed elements and props––in at Professor Julie Carr’s panel, “Real Life: An Installation,” at the University of Washington Bothel’s &NOW Conference.

Kevin Sweet presented a talk and installation––which he collaborated on with with Tara Knight and Adam Burgasse–– titled, “Sound Planetarium: Experiencing TRAPPIST 1-d in Virtual Reality,” at the 2019 TRAPPIST-1 Toward the Comparative Study of Temperate Terrestrial Worlds conference at Liège Université in Belgium.

Justin Trupiano’s installation, Frequented Paths of Genetically Evolved Neural Networks, was accepted into SciArt Magazine’s Networked show at The Nook Gallery in Los Angeles. With a grant from the Aerospace Engineering Department, Trupiano began an ongoing project, Icons, which will result in a series of visualizations representing each of the aerospace subfields, the first of which is on display in the new Ann & H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences building. He has also produced visuals for multiple exhibits in the Fiske Planetarium, including Cubic Awe and Solar Arcade.

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DCMP September Faculty Updates

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DCMP September Faculty Updates Anonymous (not verified) Tue, 10/01/2019 - 11:36

Associate Professor Reece Auguistepresented a paper on African archives and multimedia arts, and conducted a seminar on the essay film and African documentary practice at the University of Witwatersrand's RE-Framing Africa: Restructuring the Self conference in South Africa. He presented work in the On Film series at the University of Rochester and a paper on co-creation in documentary film practices at the University of Southern California's Visible Evidence XXVI conference.

Assistant Professor Betsey Biggs returned from Greenland where she recorded climate change images and sounds for her music film, MELT: The Memory of Ice, funded by a de Castro Award, the Graduate Center for the Arts and Humanities and crowd-sourced donations. She also earned a faculty fellowship through the Center for Humanities and the Arts and performed laptop improv at Musical Ecologies in New York City.

Instructor Pat Clark is collaborating with mental health researchers at ��Ƶ Anschutz to produce mindfulness exercises using virtual reality. This fall, he's presenting at conferences for Colorado Learning and Teaching with Technology, the Broadcast Education Association, and the Oral History Association. His series of microscopy images, Micro / Graph, was featured in the Over and Understories exhibition at the Boulder Public Library.

Instructor Eric Coombs Esmail, director of the Center for Documentary and Ethnographic Media, along with the center's associate director, Instructor Christian Hammons, premiered the short documentary Messengers at the IFS Los Angeles Film Festival and began production on a new feature documentary funded in part by the Center for Humanities and the Arts and the de Castro Award. Their short film Lemonade was screened at the Lone Star Film Festival and other venues. They also contributed to a successful Research and Innovation Office Seed Grant for the Center for Documentary and Ethnographic Media.

Associate Professor Tara Knight, co-faculty director of NEST, screened her new short animation Unsettled at festivals in Ottawa; London; Montreal; Zagreb, Croatia; and Annecy, France. The film received a Director's Choice Award as part of the touring program for the 2019 Black Maria Film Festival exhibiting across the U.S.

Scholar-in-Residence Hugh Lobel released MSDP, a free, open-source platform for multimedia synthesis, design and performance. He presented workshops on the software at two conferences: SEAMUS Berklee and MOXSonic at the University of Central Missouri. He also composed and performed a collaboration with Artist-in-Residence Chrissy Nelson at The Current faculty showcase concert, and performed with the Boulder Laptop Orchestra.

Scholar-in-Residence Jorge Perez-Gallego presented work at the Colorado Creative Summit and in The Hopper magazine, and curated NEST-sponsored exhibitions for Steamboat Creates, SEEC and the Boulder Public Library. His science education collaboration earned funding from the NSF Advancing Informal STEM Learning Program.

Professor and Department Chair Teri Ruebpresented a workshop and research talk at the University of Brighton, and is developing a mobile app to elaborate on the scaled solar system with Fiske Planetarium. She also contributed to a successful Research and Innovation Office Seed Grant for the Center for Documentary and Ethnographic Media.

Instructor Jason Sanford performed live music with the ensemble, E, at The Mercury Lounge in Manhattan, New York, and at The Midway Cafe in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. He also performed a solo performance at Rhinoceropolis in Denver. He used several self-made sculptural musical instruments, including the spoke-protector metallophone and amplified road saw, as well as self-made electronic devices, including an electronic instrument called the monosequencer.

Instructor Andrew Young presented, “Dark Tourism and Rwandan Media Industries: Promoting Nation and the Mythology of Memory,” at the national 2019 APCA/ACA Conference. He is working on a book project exploring discourse in contemporary Rwandan media.

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