Ithaca College

Patricia Zimmermann, professor of screen studies and co-director of the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival, was the invited speaker the Central New York Humanities Corridor group funded by the Mellon Foundation on Friday, October 26 at Hobart and William Smith Colleges.

Global Digital Humanities initiative of the Mellon Foundation invited her to run a workshop on polyphony as a theory and practice in new media and to deliver a lecture on international collaborative and participatory new media projects from Indonesia, China, Chile, Syria, Ukraine, Canada, Peru, Senegal, and the US. These presentations derived from her new book, Open Space New Media Documentary: A Toolkit for Theory and Practice (Routledge, 2018).  The members of the workshop read the book as well as other essays written by Zimmermann in preparation for the workshop and lecture.

The group included faculty from Hobart and William Smith Colleges, University of Rochester and Hamilton College, as well as PhD students from the University of Rochester.