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‘Renaissance Man’ Photographer Zun Lee and the Power of Stories
Zun Lee wasn’t all that interested in teaching students the ins and outs of taking pictures.
Why The Obamas’ Inclusion Of ‘Crip Camp’ In Their Netflix Film Lineup Means So Much
On Tuesday, Barack and Michelle Obama announced that they’ve signed a deal with Netflix to release seven films through the Obamas' new production company, Higher Ground. The Obamas launched Higher Grounds in spring of 2018 in hopes to create story-telling content that amplifies the voices of often underrepresented communities.
THE ALLIANCE FOR MEDIA ARTS + CULTURE ANNOUNCES NEW BOARD PRESIDENT N’JERI EATON
The Alliance for Media Arts +Culture is pleased to announce that the Alliance Board of Directors has elected N’Jeri Eaton as Board President, effective January 1, 2020. N’Jeri succeeds Kasandra Verbruggen, the Executive Director of SpyHop, who has served as Alliance Board President since 2016.
Empowering New Storytellers
“The theater became a space for multi-tribal community of people -- celebrating who they are and rising up their stories. I was in the back of the theater, weeping,” remembers Wendy Levy, Executive Director of The Alliance for Media Arts + Culture, an international nonprofit whose mission is to facilitate collaboration, strategic growth, innovation and cultural impact for the media arts field.
Antecedent Technology
Antecedent Technology Don’t colonize our future By: Amelia Winger-Bearskin Reprinted From Immerse In data science, we talk about models suffering from either “overfitting” or “underfitting.”...
What to do about .ORG – Internet Governance Project
On November 13, the Internet Society announced that the .ORG domain registry will be sold to a for-profit private equity firm.
HEALING CIRCLES: A Worksheet
Often, arts and performance-based programs and organizations ask their participants to share personal stories that can be ethnographies of trauma and harm. Additionally, the process of creation is always laced with doubt and vulnerability.