Patricia Zimmermann (Screen Studies) and Dale Hudson (NYU-Abu Dhabi)
Invited to Curate COVID-19 Playlists of Small Media
07/15/20
Contributed by Karen Armstrong
Patricia Zimmermann, Professor of Screen Studies and Co-director of the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival (FLEFF), and Dale Hudson, Associate Professor of Screen Studies, New York University Abu Dhabi and new media curator for FLEFF, were invited by the University of St. Andrews in Scotland to contribute to their playlist initiative, where scholars and curators from around the world select media work on themes that can be used for teaching, research, and programming during the COVID-19 pandemic and also protests on racial injustice and inequality.
Zimmermann and Hudson mounted a suite of three playlists entitled First Wave COVID-19 on three different themes: Information, Music, Satire. Nearly 50 projects are featured. All are accessible via the links in the playlists.
These First Wave COVID-19 playlists focus on small independent media rather than corporate or highly resourced media that is designed to be accessed across platforms and to circulate. A few of the corporate produced pieces profiled demonstrate the use of low-tech/amateur modes as production is shut down across the globe.
The First Wave COVID-19 suite of playlists is international in scope, showing a range of responses across different platforms, interfaces, styles, and approaches.
First Wave COVID-19 Playlist: Information
The global pandemic of COVID-19 has brought with it a pandemic of viral misinformation, or information from the top down. How can media, and in particular, the domestic and socially distanced media, combat this spread?
https://screenculture.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2020/06/18/themed-playlist-first-wave-covid-19-playlist-information/
First Wave COVID-19 Playlist: Music
The pandemic has affected our sensory contact with the world--not only touch, but all the elements of a live, in person performance.
https://screenculture.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2020/06/26/themed-playlist-first-wave-covid-19-playlist-music/
First Wave COVID-19 Playlist: Satire
Mainstream media have the power to dictate the terms of engagement through their near ubiquity and capacity to frame the issues. Satire is a crucial tool in countering these narratives and the political control they exert.
https://screenculture.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2020/07/09/themed-playlist-first-wave-covid-19-playlist-satire/
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