Bay Area Video Coalition The Bay Area Video Coalition, or BAVC (pronounced “bay-vac”), is a nonprofit media arts center that was founded in 1976 by a coalition of media makers and activists who wanted to find alternative, civic-minded applications for a new technology - PortaPak video. Our continuing mission is to inspire social change by enabling the sharing of diverse stories through art, education and technology. http://www.bavc.org/index.php
Center for future civic media/MIT
Center for future Storytelling/MIT
Center for Independent Documentary, New England
Center for Social Media, American University
The Center for Social Media showcases and analyzes media for public knowledge and action—media made by, for, and with publics to address the problems that they share. We pay particular attention to the evolution of documentary film and video in a digital era. With research, public events, and convenings, we explore the fast-changing environment for public media. The Center was founded in 2001 by Patricia Aufderheide, University Professor in the School of Communication. As part of the School, the Center offers research assistantships, screenings, master classes and volunteer opportunities to SOC students. The Center also has fellows associated with funded projects, but has no stand-alone funding for fellows. The Center’s work has been supported by the Annie E. Casey, Ford, MacArthur, Surdna and Rockefeller Foundations, the Haas Family Trusts, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
The Documentary Center/George Washington University
Duke Center for Documentary Studies
Duke offers a highly interdisciplinary bachelor’s program and continuing education course, both of which emphasize still photography and its influence on the documentary. The curriculum also focuses strongly on the history of the art form, with courses this year on Classic Documentary Films and Traditions in Documentary Film. Students are encouraged to pursue relevant coursework in other departments such as history and sociology, in the hopes that they produce work that utilizes the craft as an agent of social change. In fact, the Center runs a program called “Literacy Through Photography,” wherein students from local public schools are given workshops to capture images from their own lives.
To learn more about this program, visit http://cds.aas.duke.edu/.
Union Docs, Brooklyn, NY http://www.uniondocs.org/global-perspectives-in-digital-media/
A documentary arts collaborative
Mission: to present a broad range of innovative and thought-provoking non-fiction projects to the general public, while also cultivating specialized opportunities for learning, critical discourse, and creative collaboration for emerging media-makers, theorists, and curators
Collab Docs project at the Digital Cultures Research Centre, University of the West of England
What does the collaborative potential of Web 2.0 mean for documentary? What new forms are emerging as the "people formerly known as the audience" become co-creators on the web? These are the questions which inform the CollabDocs project - an AHRC funded practice-based Research Fellowship in Creative and Performing Arts. The project involves a number of hands-on experiments in collaborative online documentary, looking at how a producer can be a catalyst, curator, facilitator, in that process. http://www.dcrc.org.uk/projects/collab-docs
The Bay Area Video Coalition, or BAVC (pronounced “bay-vac”), is a nonprofit media arts center that was founded in 1976 by a coalition of media makers and activists who wanted to find alternative, civic-minded applications for a new technology - PortaPak video. Our continuing mission is to inspire social change by enabling the sharing of diverse stories through art, education and technology.
http://www.bavc.org/index.php
Center for future civic media/MIT
Center for future Storytelling/MIT
Center for Independent Documentary, New England
Center for Social Media, American University
The Center for Social Media showcases and analyzes media for public knowledge and action—media made by, for, and with publics to address the problems that they share. We pay particular attention to the evolution of documentary film and video in a digital era. With research, public events, and convenings, we explore the fast-changing environment for public media. The Center was founded in 2001 by Patricia Aufderheide, University Professor in the School of Communication. As part of the School, the Center offers research assistantships, screenings, master classes and volunteer opportunities to SOC students. The Center also has fellows associated with funded projects, but has no stand-alone funding for fellows.
The Center’s work has been supported by the Annie E. Casey, Ford, MacArthur, Surdna and Rockefeller Foundations, the Haas Family Trusts, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
The Documentary Center/George Washington University
Duke Center for Documentary Studies
Duke offers a highly interdisciplinary bachelor’s program and continuing education course, both of which emphasize still photography and its influence on the documentary. The curriculum also focuses strongly on the history of the art form, with courses this year on Classic Documentary Films and Traditions in Documentary Film. Students are encouraged to pursue relevant coursework in other departments such as history and sociology, in the hopes that they produce work that utilizes the craft as an agent of social change. In fact, the Center runs a program called “Literacy Through Photography,” wherein students from local public schools are given workshops to capture images from their own lives.
To learn more about this program, visit http://cds.aas.duke.edu/.
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Union Docs, Brooklyn, NY
http://www.uniondocs.org/global-perspectives-in-digital-media/
A documentary arts collaborative
Mission: to present a broad range of innovative and thought-provoking non-fiction projects to the general public, while also cultivating specialized opportunities for learning, critical discourse, and creative collaboration for emerging media-makers, theorists, and curators
Collab Docs project at the Digital Cultures Research Centre, University of the West of England
What does the collaborative potential of Web 2.0 mean for documentary? What new forms are emerging as the "people formerly known as the audience" become co-creators on the web? These are the questions which inform the CollabDocs project - an AHRC funded practice-based Research Fellowship in Creative and Performing Arts. The project involves a number of hands-on experiments in collaborative online documentary, looking at how a producer can be a catalyst, curator, facilitator, in that process.
http://www.dcrc.org.uk/projects/collab-docs