Media-Producing Anthropologists
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February 18, 2009Dear Anthropologists,
Please consider submitting an abstract for consideration in the proposed panel, Media-Producing Anthropologists, at the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, December 3-7, 2009. Participants should be prepared to screen and critique their own nonfiction visual production. Please send abstracts to Adam Fish at rawbird@gmail.com, before March 20, 2009 with the subject heading: AAA 2009 Panel.
For more information on the conference please visit http://www.aaanet.org/meetings/index.cfm.
Thank you,
Adam Fish
University of California, Los Angeles
Current TV, VC2 Producer
Media-Producing Anthropologists
Adam Fish, Chair/Organizer
American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, December 3-7, 2009
Following the conference theme, the End/s of Anthropology, this panel investigates a post-textual, pro-visual anthropology. What new visual languages exist in the digital present? How does anthropological media production exist as an effective representational strategy in an age of amateur “democratized” media production and the hybridization of nonfiction genres? This panel explores emergent modes of anthropological visual media production. Panelists are media producing anthropologists who reflexively decompress the problems of field producing, editing, and exhibiting anthropologically illustrative media. Our subjects are the possibilities and limitations inherent in the use of video cameras, editing technologies, information architectures, or narrative structures. We discuss the mechanics and experience of media production and the architectonics that dominate the construction of visual actualities. Recently completed or in-development work are showcased to illustrate new methods of visual media production in anthropology. Presentations will be highly visible. Each panelist will criticize at least one of his or her recorded and edited clips. As anthropological media advances astride technological elaborations new audiences emerge and traditional audiences change. Panelists are encouraged to connect their production and editing choices to the modulating political economy of media anthropology within academia and beyond.
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