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[ecrea] Summer Course about Video (and) Activism at UDK Berlin

Tue Jul 18 16:56:19 GMT 2017



*Summer Course about Video (and) Activism at UDK Berlin*

_CUT//ACT: Video (and) Activism Course_

Have you ever wondered how media has changed over time, and how "video" has been used as a political tool? In this course you may improve your knowledge/skills regarding media theory, media activism, design research and the use of audiovisual tools.

The workshop is an intensive 5-day-course from 05.10.2017 to 11.10.2017 (no lessons on the weekend – October 7th and 8th) created and proposed by the creative copywriter and media/design researcher Andréa Poshar (Brazil/Chile), with the collaboration of the designer Simona Venditti (Italy), and the design researcher Tom Bieling (Design Research Lab / Berlin University of the Arts).

We will seek to explore key elements of media studies such as its history, its relationship with activism, its communication practices, audiovisual development and aesthetics, visual design, and the social and cultural changes that have occurred in time. Within this context, facilitators will improve participants' knowledge and skills regarding media history, media activism and the use of audiovisual tools, such as the video as a political tool of communication.

The unique format of this project will bring the challenge (and the opportunity) to the participants to inquire media studies not only in a theoretical, reflexive and critical way, but also will call attendees into action to develop their own skills and aesthetics regarding communication for activist movement.

_OBJECTIVES_

The CUT//ACT course aims to:

• Inquiry media history and design research in relation to social and activist movements.
• Seek to understand social and cultural changes media can bring to society.
• Develop the capacity of students to identify the different types of visual communication aesthetics. • Show the evolution of visual communication aesthetics along the development of new tools of communication. • Improve the ability to develop a good communication structure for activism movements and to be able to define/identify what it is a good communication structure. • Work out the ability of not only improve images but to assemble them with audio, interviews, etc. • Define a guideline for the realization of video activism that can support an active communication campaign.
• Develop an activist video.
• To be able to develop contents for the storytelling, to the appropriate technical knowledge for the realization of a video activism product. • Point out technical analysis of the video content, research and sharing of personal reflection on sensitive issues for a possible campaign.

_WHO CAN APPLY?_

The CUT//ACT course has been designed for artists and designers with little knowledge in the fields of media theory, design research, social science and little experience within media methods of practices and uses. It is suitable to students and scholars as well as the experienced practitioners who are looking to review and/or enhance current approaches/ knowledge regarding media studies, media activism, and public engagement. The workshop might also be suitable for scientists, teachers, and students of science seeking continual professional and academic development and people working in research groups/nucleus with a communication/social science element to their role.

INFO AND REGISTRATION
http://www.summer-university.udk-berlin.de/?id=222





Simona Venditti, PhD
Research Fellow | Dipartimento di Design
IMAGIS Lab | imagislab.it <http://imagislab.it>
Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Via Durando 38/A - 20158 Milano

(simona.venditti /at/ polimi.it)

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