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Symposium Explores Use of Digital Games by Human Rights Activists
The Digital Witness Symposium invites cutting-edge mediamakers, programmers and scholars to discuss how the changing digital ecology is opening up new opportunities for human rights media. This year’s symposium explores how human rights activism is increasingly turning to digital games and interactive media as a strategy for engaging new audiences.
Transmedia Visiting Artist Michael Robinson Will Give a Talk on Oct. 8
Transmedia Visiting Artist Michael Robinson will give a talk on Oct. 8 at 2 pm. in Shemin Auditorium, Shaffer. Robinson is an American film, video and collage artist whose work explores the joys and dangers of mediated experience, riding the fine…
Lunchtime Lecture: Visions for Sale
Please join SUArt Galleries Curator David Prince on Wednesday, Sept. 25, at 12:15 p.m. for a gallery tour of the exhibition “Visions for Sale: Photographs of Nineteenth Century Japan.” Website: http://suart.syr.edu Contact Person: Emily Dittman, SUArt Galleries, 443-4097, suart@syr.edu
Transmedia Visiting Artist Gary Kibbins
Transmedia Visiting Artist Gary Kibbins will give a talk on Sept. 24 at 2 p.m. in Shemin Auditorium. Kibbins is a media artist and writer currently teaching in the Department of Film Studies at Queen’s University, Canada. He previously taught…
‘Tinker Tour’ Will Visit SU’s Newhouse School Sept. 25
Free speech advocate Mary Beth Tinker, who made headlines as the teenage girl who precipitated a landmark 1969 Supreme Court case, will visit the Newhouse School on Wednesday, Sept. 25, as part of her nationwide “Tinker Tour.” A guest of…
Transmedia Visiting Artist Ofer Wolberger to Speak Sept. 17 at 2 p.m. in Shemin Auditorium
Ofer Wolberger is an American artist based in Brooklyn, where he publishes books under his own Horses Think Press. In 2012, he completed “12 Books,” a series of self-published artists’ books that explore the current state of photography through bookmaking. In…
Long Elected to Honor Society’s Council of Advisors
Dawn M. Long, the office coordinator and graduate secretary in the Department of Biomedical and Chemical Engineering, was recently elected to Golden Key International Honour Society’s council of advisors. She will serve on the council for a three-year term. The…
Artist, Musician, Cirque du Soleil Performer Suzie Gagnon Will Visit Campus
The Newhouse School and the Bandier Program in the College of Visual and Performing Arts will bring artist, musician and Cirque du Soleil performer Suzie Gagnon to campus this month. She will host a screening and discussion of the film…
Visiting Artist Lecture: Vincent Cianni
Transmedia’s visiting artist Vincent Cianni will give a lecture on Sept. 10 at 2 p.m. in Shemin Auditorium. Cianni is a documentary photographer and educator whose work explores community, memory and the human condition through image, text and audio. “We…
Archivists Publish New Pictorial History of Syracuse University
A recently published pictorial history of Syracuse University, authored by SU archivists Edward Galvin, Margaret Mason and Mary O’Brien, contains more than 200 images captioned with stories and memories of more than 140 years of SU history. “Syracuse University,” part of…