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Live Art from Archival Subjects

Semester: 

Spring

Offered: 

2023
https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/89269
How can vinyl records, legal transcripts, classic movies, home recordings, 19th century burlesque routines, or old photographs become the raw materials for some of today’s most compelling theater? And how do these works ask audiences to reconsider our inheritance of the past, creating a dialogue between the past and the present? This practice-based course focuses on theater-makers and processes of production that turn objects, archives and cultural data from the past into vibrant forms of contemporary performance.

TDM Junior Tutorial

Semester: 

Fall

Offered: 

2022
https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/89005
The primary goal of this course is to ensure that TDM students have the skills required for the successful completion of a senior thesis, or other independent project of similar focus and scale. This tutorial is also a chance for you to think freely about new avenues you would like to explore in Theater, Dance and Media, and how you might use your thesis projects and your remaining time at Harvard to start those explorations.

Media History of New York

Semester: 

Spring

Offered: 

2015

New York University

This undergraduate seminar explores the role of New York City in the history of media and the role of media in the history of New York City, from its establishment as a Dutch trading post in the early 17th century to the present.

History of Media and Communication

Semester: 

Fall

Offered: 

2014

New York University

This core course in the undergraduate curriculum explores the development of various media and the historical conditions - cultural, political, social and technological - that shaped them.

Cultural Capital: Art and Media in New York City

Semester: 

Summer

Offered: 

2014

This annual summer course - supplemented by outings, site visits and guest lectures - explores the relations of dependency, reciprocity and precarity found in overlapping spheres of art, commerce and media production in New York City. It asks how New York City has persisted as a global capital of cultural production and in what ways it continues to do so.

Past site visits and guest lectures have included: ABC, the New Yorker, NY Times, Blue Man Group, the Apollo Theater, Saatchi and Saatchi, Sotheby's, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, the Nuyorican Poet's Cafe , the Mayor's...

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