Critical Media Practices News

Boulder Time Capsule Project

Grad Students' Time Capsule Project Featured in Local Media

April 28, 2016

Graduate students from the Department of Critical Media Practices were featured in The Daily Camera , a local publication, for their work to document daily life in the City of Boulder in 2016. Graduate students at the University of Colorado want to memorialize this year in Boulder — especially the...

Hunter Ewen

Ewen Receives Grants to Explore LED Art, Sound Recording from Drones

April 20, 2016

Hunter Ewen has received grants to fund two new projects that explore new technologies in sound collection and LED art.

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CU graduate students hold a screening of their short narrative documentary films

April 12, 2016

Graduate students from the University of Colorado Boulder will be hosting a screening of their short, narrative documentaries at the Boulder Public Library on Wednesday, April 27, 2016. Doors open at 5:30 p.m. and the screening will begin at 6 p.m. The event will debut films created by graduate students...

Ernst Karel holds a workshop in sound ethnography for DCMP students and faculty in February 2016.

Photos: Ernst Karel and Helen Mirra Visit CU

March 15, 2016

Media artists Ernst Karel and Helen Mirra visited CU-Boulder to hold exhibitions and workshops in sound ethnography.

High-Speed camera workshop

Video: High-Speed Camera Workshop

March 11, 2016

Students learned to shoot and edit high-speed camera footage in a university-wide workshop on March 4.

GoPro Camera

Photos: Student Documentary Film Festival Kicks-off

March 2, 2016

Faculty, staff and students celebrated the launch of CU-Boulder's first campus-wide student documentary film festival with a reception in the CU Art Museum on Monday, Feb. 29.

A 180 degree photograph

Students to produce "full dome" visuals for planetarium screen

Jan. 26, 2016

Students in the Department of Critical Media Practices will be creating "full dome" content for the Fiske Planetarium.

Feb. 12: Screening: "The Iron Ministry"

Showing: The Iron Ministry, Director, J.P. Sniadecki

Feb. 13: Two Film Screening

Showing: Ah Humanity!, Created by Ernst Karel, Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Verena Paravel. Single Stream, Created by Paweł Wojtasik, Toby Lee, and Ernst Karel.

New Journal Will Pioneer Use of Multimedia in Scholarly Publications

Nov. 20, 2015

Christian Hammons, an instructor in CU-Boulder’s departments of Critical Media Practices and Anthropology, has received a grant to design and launch a new peer-reviewed, open-access journal called Mimesis: The Journal of Documentary and Ethnographic Media . The journal will be ground-breaking in its use of multimedia. “Many academic journals include...

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