Monday, May 9, 2016, 6:30 pm, $5
Join us for the final film screening of the *Media for Social Change* class at the UC Berkeley’s Art Practice Department!
Participating Artists: Tara Baghdassarian, Anyun Chatterjee, Irene Chen, Janie Contreras, Belinda Cortez, Sarah Del Monte, Vanessa Donasco, Suzi Hyun, Shannon Kim, Kay Kuok, Alicia Lemus, Mel Nothern, Reaa Puri, Sophia Sobko, Susan Stewart, and Rae Strozzo.
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In this collection of works the artists employ their unique personal lenses, exploring what has influenced their own ways of seeing while offering viewers an experiential journey.
The resulting experimental, fictional, and documentary videos utilize metaphor, symbolism and poetic gestures to narrate lived experiences, share personal philosophies and world views, and raise awareness about pressing issues.
About the class:
The Media for Social Change course surveyed new media from a lens of personal transformation and artistic activism as a means to create positive social change. This course examined the uses of mass media in contemporary society worldwide–news, advertising, propaganda, censorship, and power–and consider the tremendous potential this medium has to subvert and transcend these uses–through art, activism, collaboration, transparency, global accessibility, and citizen journalism–as a powerful tool in hands of a technologically savvy generation.