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\"\"<\/a>Mary Brimmer<\/strong> \u201919 <\/span>is a rising junior majoring in Sociology with a minor in Media & Film Studies. Prior to studying abroad in Florence, Italy for the Fall of 2017, Mary hopes to combine her passion for photography and interest in audio to reflect upon her life thus far. With a love for storytelling, she aspires to someday venture into ethnography and documentary film.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Project<\/em>:\u00a0<\/span>Documenting the undiagnosed illness that has plagued her family since 2005, Mary\u2019s project, Beyond the Surface, exposes the various stigmas surrounding chronic, \u201cinvisible\u201d illnesses. Her family has been on a painstaking journey to find her father answers but have been met with many obstacles, including mistreatment or lack of recognition by health care professionals, strangers and even loved ones. Creating embroidered photographs in conjunction with audio of each of her family members, Beyond the Surface allows the audience an intimate look into her family\u2019s experience. It seeks to reveal the very visible and harsh realities of chronic illness that extend beyond the body and into everyday life. Mary hopes that the project may spread awareness, spark conversation and foster support.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Simon Klein<\/strong> is a multimodal conceptual media artist who works primarily with <\/span>photography, video, and audio documents. Simon is a <\/span>2017 graduate of Skidmore and self-determined major in Contemporary Media and Culture<\/span>. His work has been featured in <\/span>juried exhibitions around the Saratoga area, and has been shown in PhilaMOCA. Outside of his <\/span>art, he has a passion for music and has worked with multiple radio stations including WXPN, <\/span>Clocktower Radio, and WSPN, the Skidmore station he managed for the past year. <\/span>He is\u00a0extremely excited for the opportunity to further his experimental work in 360 video as part of the\u00a0institute this summer.\u00a0You can find him anywhere on the internet under the pseudonym PsymonSpine.<\/span><\/p>\n

Project<\/em>: <\/span> Simon will make a 360 video collage collapsing past and present. Using footage from his <\/span>time here at Skidmore as well as new footage shot in 360 of a walk around Saratoga, he wishes <\/span>to collapse memory and space to create an individualized narrative of place that exists outside <\/span>of normal perceptions. In this immersive space, the meanings of place may change to become<\/span> fuller and more vibrant. <\/span> Simon will use personal experiences of place and memory to create a landscape in which a <\/span>history, or the pathways of memory, become apparent. \u00a0He will recast<\/span> the Situationist idea of the Derive, a purposeful walk, to create an experience that helps <\/span>bridge the gap of personal place and makes it more recognizable,<\/span>\u00a0<\/span> A Derive is a way to break down place into <\/span>components and to study it to create an internal map or experience that is unique and apart <\/span>from spectacle or quickly focused attention. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\"\"<\/a><\/strong><\/strong>Kira Hastings ’17<\/strong> impulsively began working with audio as a unique and intimate method of storytelling. After living in Paris for a year, she views her education as a study in storytelling techniques, encompassing written, visual, and oral forms. Drawing her inspiration from the many histories that exist behind the scenes but affect society every day, her project combines art history and audio to tell infrequently-heard but vital tales of women in art and the connections between historical works and feminist conversations today.<\/p>\n

Exploring accessible, fun, and informative methods of teaching art history, this series will use the intimacy of sound to discuss what art historians find so exciting about their work. The pieces will provide the necessary background information but also search for an informal, less-academic sound than stereotypical art history lectures. Uniting the series through a women-oriented lens, the series will concentrate on relatively unknown women artists and women’s issues expressed in their works. What makes these works exciting and groundbreaking today? Why doesn’t everyone know about them? Utilizing art to discuss history and its consequences, the audio will capture what the artists hoped to express and why it was important. This historic lens will allow historians to explain how each work connects to social issues and discussions, both then and now.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Sindiso Mafico\u00a0<\/strong>is a Zimbabwean, in her sophomore year of <\/span>college. Her interest in Media Studies began with a community service assignment in High School at <\/span>United World College which involved helping a <\/span>fellow UWC student, Andres Broennimann, film the first ever UWC documentary<\/span>, \u2018The UWC Spirit\u2019. As a Media Studies minor, she <\/span>workw Skidmore’ in Media services.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span> She is most proud of the media project made during a 2016 summer program at the Media Institute of Social Change in Portland, Oregon. She produced a podcast and a documentary short film on police brutality centered around the first African-American femelale police officer in Portland. Her hope is to one-day work for a Participant Media- a production company devoted to producing entertainment with socially relevant themes. <\/span><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Chelsea Nuesi <\/strong>’17 will be a graduate of Skidmore College with a BA in Communication Design for Social Innovation, a self-determined major that encompasses her passions for creative writing, graphic design, and social justice. After discovering her love for design, Chelsea has been working on interdisciplinary projects including code, data, design, and writing. Her projects aim to address current issues, such as education inequality and linguistic prejudice. As Chelsea enters the world of design and technology, she plans to challenge the current boundaries of the publishing industry and bring books to life through interactive websites.<\/p>\n

The Language Map<\/em> is an interactive website that tells the story of Elvira Ramirez. In an audio recording, Elvira shares her experience with linguistic prejudice in Puerto Rico and in the United States. Visitors of the website can scroll through the transcript of the interview as Elvira voices her story. In addition to the text, visitors can observe and interpret drawings provided to depict Elvira\u2019s external and internal reality with linguistic prejudice. The main goal of the website is to make Elvira\u2019s story known and to inspire action against linguistic discrimination.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Eliane Paley ’19<\/span><\/strong> is a rising junior majoring in Studio Art with a minor in Media & Film <\/span>Studies. Inspired by contemporary time based media, she strives to combine her two passions <\/span>of making tactile objects and spaces and creating abstract video imagery and soundscapes. <\/span><\/p>\n
Project: <\/em><\/span>Elianne\u2019s<\/span>\u00a0multimedia installation\u00a0<\/span>Alala<\/span><\/em>\u2014<\/span>the tagalog word for\u00a0<\/span>\u201cmemory\u201d\u2014<\/span>tells the story of her <\/span>grandmother, great aunts and uncles, as they experienced World War 2 as children in the <\/span>Philippines. By utilizing multimedia platforms, such as photos and objects from her family <\/span>archive, audio interviews, projected video imagery, fiber art and video collage, her installation <\/span>shows how individuals envision memories from the same time period in different ways.<\/span><\/div>\n
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\n\"\"<\/a>Harry Sultan<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0<\/span>\u201917\u00a0<\/span>is a soon-to-be Skidmore graduate, leaving collegiate life with <\/span>a degree in Psychology. Though declared a psychology major, he likes to consider <\/span>himself majoring in the liberal arts as a whole, often taking classes in three separate <\/span>departments every semester. His desire to expand his breadth of education eventually led <\/span>him to enrolling in an intro to audio documentary class the summer before his senior <\/span>year. Once the class began he realized that his longtime love of listening to podcasts was <\/span>the beginning of his passion to tell evidence-based stories through audio. Now, as he is <\/span>finishing up\u00a0<\/span>his final weeks as an undergraduate he is excited to go into the Storytellers\u2019 <\/span>Institute as his first step towards producing professional-level documentary work; and is <\/span>thrilled to have found a way to combine his love of learning, researching, and storytelling <\/span>in this often-overlooked medium. <\/span><\/p>\n

Project: <\/span><\/em>Saratoga Springs<\/span>\u2019 motto, \u201cHealth, History, Horses\u201d,\u00a0<\/span>is proudly boasted on signs <\/span>surrounding the city\u2019s borders, on its website, and on the tip of the tongue<\/span>\u00a0of its thousands of <\/span>residents. Yet the city’s history includes stories of illegal gambling, bootlegging, rum <\/span>running and corruption that have been swept under the rug. This project uncovers <\/span>the lesser-known and less glamorous history of Saratoga Springs that mobsters and cops <\/span>killed to keep secret. <\/span>Its racetrack made Saratoga Springs a prominent location for gambling;<\/span> many up-and-coming prohibition – era gangsters anticipated as a lucrative <\/span>opportunity there. Some of the country\u2019s most notorious prohibition era mobsters had rackets <\/span>in Saratoga Springs. <\/span>Illicit Alcohol<\/span><\/em>\u00a0will be an audio documentary with interviews of the people <\/span>who know the most about prohibition-era Saratoga Springs. It will be <\/span>the first comprehensive work about Saratoga during this complicated time. <\/span><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Madeleine Welsch <\/strong>is an illustrator and motion graphics artist currently based in New York. Her rural upbringing fostered an insatiable call to answer the question, \u201cwhat impact do I have here?\u201d She has worked for Brooklyn-based artist Lesley Dill, the San Francisco-based non-profit Turning Green, and in the graphic design department at the Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum in Saratoga Springs, New York. Madeleine has been an artist-in-residence at the Center at Eagle Hill in Hardwick, Massachusetts, and is an upcoming resident at the Sitka Fellows Program (Sitka, Alaska) and the Kala Art Institute (Berkeley, California).<\/p>\n

Jumping off her recent undergraduate thesis at Skidmore College (a three-screen animation loosely based on the environmental economic theory The Tragedy of the Commons), Madeleine will explore experimental narrative motion during the Storytellers\u2019 Institute. Her piece focuses on a visual interpretation of the soundscape The Last Morning was a Sweet One by audio producer and collaborator Alix Blair. The audio, which won a 2013 ShortDocs Award at the Third Coast International Audio Festival, investigates a story of our food from start to finish, morning to night. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/form>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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