Masked Not Silent!
This is the website for Collective Production, Spring 2021 here in the Integrated Media Arts MFA Program at Hunter College.
Description
Models of Production
Outside of the realm of industrial media production built on hierarchy and division of labor, and the “artistic” model which stress the individual as star or brand, lies a large area of production focused on “sideways” models of information produced in collective contexts. This production workshop involves the student in all aspects of a collectively produced media project of substantial scope while also examining the history of collective practices in the making of film and video from the 1930’s to today as well as theoretical issues related to authorship, shared subjectivity, collective identity and questions of form in media and art making.
A Shared History
From the Film and Photo League of the 1930s, to film groups such as Chris Marker’s SLON and the Dziga Vertov Group spawned by the French ’68 movement, to Newsreel, which formed to struggle against the war in Vietnam and the political crackdowns in America, to the alternative media groups that sprung up with cable television such as the Videofreex and TVTV in the US, to groups like Black Audio Film Collective founded in 1982 to redefine representations of race in the UK, and groups that sprang up around AIDS and LGBTQ struggles such as Gran Fury and Dyke TV there are a myriad of examples of makers who have come together to work collectively. What does this tradition mean for us today, when collective struggle has taken on complex new forms and democracy itself seems jeopardized?
About us
Contact
Marty Lucas
Integrated Media Arts MFA Program
mluc@hunter.cuny.edu
Collective Production 